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On Monday, the World Magnetic Model was updated to account for the north pole’s eccentric behavior, after a delay caused by the US federal shutdown. Continue reading What Happens if the Magnetic North Pole Keeps Rushing Toward Siberia?
The extent of the damages are still unknown. Continue reading Joshua Tree National Park Could Take ‘200 to 300 Years’ to Recover From the Government Shutdown
After former U.S. officials raised concerns that the longest government shutdown in history had weakened federal cybersecurity, lawmakers are asking the Trump administration how bad the damage is. “We are concerned that these circumstances have left our government and citizens vulnerable to cyberattacks,” five Democratic senators wrote in a letter Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command. The senators – Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar, Massachusetts’ Ed Markey, New Mexico’s Tom Udall, Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto, and New Jersey’s Cory Booker – want to know how agencies are preparing to harden their networks for a future shutdown, citing past experience as a cautionary tale. During the 2013 government shutdown, the senators wrote, Chinese hackers compromised the Federal Election Commission’s computer network, crashing sensitive computer systems that disclose billions of dollars in spending each election cycle. “Shutdowns have severe […]
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Continue reading Senators ask Trump administration how badly shutdown hurt federal cybersecurity
A top House lawmaker, along with former Department of Homeland Security officials, say the partial government shutdown is hampering federal officials’ ability to anticipate and proactively address cyberthreats. “We can kind of address things as they come, but we can’t look forward and do additional mitigation and other kinds of things that we normally do,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., told reporters Thursday at an event on Capitol Hill on the security implications of the shutdown. “So if somebody tells us about something or we identify it, we can go after it,” added Thompson, who is chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. “But we can’t plan for the next month or the next three months because we don’t have the capacity to do it with the shutdown.” Former DHS officials agreed that the partial shutdown, which began Dec. 22 and has 800,000 workers across all agencies furloughed or working without pay, […]
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Here’s the latest Naked Security podcast – enjoy! Continue reading Ep. 015 – USB anti-hacking, bypassing 2FA and government insecurity [PODCAST]
The government shutdown is highlighting what is already a reality for many of us: Using the internet to beg for money we need to survive. Continue reading We Are Living in the Begging Economy
SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, is an observatory built onto a Boeing 747, but the government shutdown has stopped it from flying. Continue reading The Government Shutdown Has Grounded NASA’s Only Flying Telescope
A quick glance at the headlines tell you how the government shutdown is affecting people across the country. National parks vandalized. Food safety inspections halted. Air travel at risk as planes aren’t fixed or inspected and TSA workers calling in s… Continue reading Government Shutdown’s Negative Impact on Federal Cybersecurity
“The situation is impacted by the partial government shutdown.” Continue reading The Tiger Sharks Eating This Dead Whale Aren’t Waiting for the Government Shutdown to End