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The kingdom is a vital partner to ensure the U.S. can block Chinese telecom giant Huawei from dominating networks in the Mideast and Africa.
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The national cyber director’s office is leading the drafting of the document.
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The Biden administration is also scrambling to figure out how to secure reproductive data.
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Eric Goldstein said agencies are focusing hard on adopting MFA, but some are dealing with older IT.
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\Russia has taken “preparatory actions” including probing websites for vulnerabilities, presidential adviser Anne Neuberger said.
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The White House says the executive order “the first ever, whole-of-government approach” to cryptocurrencies and other digital assets.
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The Biden administration is requesting additional funds from Congress to help Ukraine with its digital defenses, strengthen cybersecurity in Europe and enhance U.S. capabilities to respond to the fallout from the Russian invasion. The overall fiscal 2022 supplemental request, sent to Capitol Hill this week, seeks $10 billion in Ukraine-related needs and $22.5 billion in funding related to COVID-19. Among the bigger pots of cybersecurity-focused funding the administration is requesting is $1.25 billion for the Defense Department to assist Ukraine with support on “operational surges across multiple national defense components, including accelerated cyber capabilities, weapons systems upgrades, increased intelligence support, and classified programs.” A $1.75 billion request for the State Department to provide economic aid to Ukraine includes support for “continuity of government” and resilience work, including cybersecurity and efforts to counter disinformation. Other funds sought for Ukraine assistance include Department of Energy money to evaluate cybersecurity needs for connecting Ukraine’s […]
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President Biden will urge Congress to strengthen children’s privacy protections in his State of the Union address Tuesday, following growing concerns about the potential mental health impact online platforms cause children — an issue that Congress has repeatedly hauled in tech giants to address in hearings in recent months. A fact sheet released prior to the speech grouped the initiative into four distinct calls to action: banning targeted advertising for children, prioritizing safety design standards for online platforms, stopping discriminatory algorithmic decision-making and investing at least $5 million in fiscal year 2023 toward research on social media’s effects on mental health. “The President believes not only that we should have far stronger protections for children’s data and privacy, but that the platforms and other interactive digital service providers should be required to prioritize and ensure the health, safety and well-being of children and young people above profit and revenue in […]
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Open-source software and device firmware are two of the biggest areas of vulnerability in the supply chains for information and communications technology, according to a federal report Thursday that called for better risk management practices and improved monitoring efforts by government and industry. Another area that potentially affects U.S. cybersecurity is a shrinking manufacturing base for hardware, including a “significant reduction” in the related workforce, the report said. The Biden administration asked the departments of Commerce and Homeland Security for the review under an executive order signed in February 2021 as the White House worked to address challenges in the supply chains for goods and services overall. At the time, the breach of SolarWinds’ software supply chain by Russia-linked hackers had riled Washington, and Thursday’s report comes as the government and cybersecurity industry are still responding to the Log4shell bug found in December 2021 in a widely used piece of […]
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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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