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The former National Security Agency executive director will oversee federal cyber policy as the first Senate-confirmed NCD in 10 months.
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The National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center is trying to improve threat-sharing with private sector partners.
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White House official Anne Neuberger met with NATO officials in Rome to help craft plans to more rapidly respond to cyberthreats.
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Executives from consumer electronic companies along with advocates and academics joined officials from the White House and FCC the meeting.
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The Biden administration hopes the voluntary effort helps inform consumers and compels manufacturers to improve internet of things security.
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The meeting will follow an Aug. 4 briefing with railroad executives to discuss industry responses to critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
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\Russia has taken “preparatory actions” including probing websites for vulnerabilities, presidential adviser Anne Neuberger said.
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A series of Ukrainian government websites were inaccessible Wednesday after what a government official described as a “mass DDoS attack,” marking the second apparent distributed denial-of-service disruption to hit government sites there in the last eight days. The websites for the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Cabinet of Ministers suffered network disruptions in an incident that “appears consistent with recent DDOS attacks,” according to NetBlocks, a London-based organization that tracks internet access. DDoS attacks knock sites offline by flooding them with phony traffic. Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation, said the country was experiencing another DDoS attack that also targeted Ukrainian banks, the Kyiv Independent reported shortly after observers around the world began noticing the disruptions. In a subsequent message posted to Telegram Fedorov said a “mass DDoS attack” began at about 4 p.m. local […]
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Russia was behind recent disruptions of Ukrainian government and banking websites, a top White House official said Friday. “We have assessed that Russia was responsible for the distributed denial-of-service [DDoS] attacks that occurred earlier this week,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology. Neuberger said the U.S. has “technical information” that shows digital infrastructure belonging Russia’s main intelligence directorate, the GRU, “transmitting high volumes of communication to Ukraine-based IP addresses and domains.” The British government also attributed the attacks to the GRU on Friday. DDoS incidents involve flooding websites with bogus traffic until they’re unavailable to most users. Ukrainian officials earlier this week did not attribute the incidents to a specific actor, but suggested Russia was the only country that would conduct such an operation. Around the same time as Tuesday’s DDoS attacks, Ukrainians also received spam text messages falsely claiming that ATMs didn’t work. […]
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