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Alaska election website was hacked on election day in 2016: report

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Hackers reportedly breached election systems in a third state, in addition to the already disclosed incidents involving Arizona and Illinois, during the 2016 campaign cycle. On election day 2016, a hacker successfully penetrated a server hosting Alaska’s main election website, the Anchorage Daily News reported on Monday night, citing documents obtained through a public records request. The breach is not connected to the previously reported hacking attempt made by Russia-linked hackers to access Alaska’s primary voter registration database. Alaska was one of 21 states that were previously informed by the Department of Homeland Security of similar Russian probing activity on their election systems. Security experts told ADN that, although the newly reported incident was a successful intrusion, the Alaska Division of Elections’  appear to have prevented the attackers from changing content on the server. ADN reports that the hacker exploited a vulnerability in the Alaska election website’s PHP script, a commonly used web […]

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DHS leaders push cybersecurity risk assessment program for critical infrastructure companies

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen is pitching a new supply chain cybersecurity program in an effort to engage with some of the country’s largest critical infrastructure providers, including the oil, electric and water treatment industries. “Our nation’s supply chain is being targeted by our most sophisticated adversaries with increasing regularity,” Nielsen said Thursday to a room full of people representing private sector companies.  “We ask for you to work with us on this initiative … the goal of this initiative is to help stakeholders make better informed procurement decisions by providing them with supply chain risk assessment and mitigation recommendations.” The program is focused on DHS authoring and providing digital risk assessments to companies and government agencies about products that they may acquire or install on their systems. The move comes after the federal government banned the use of Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs’ anti-virus software across government systems. In addition, legislation […]

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We Have Answers: Questions from 2018 Cybersecurity Core Capabilities Webinar

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Nicolas Chaillan, cybersecurity architect who worked for Homeland Security in the United States provided guidelines for your 2018 cybersercurity strategy. It is based on what he built for Cyber.gov – a strategy that takes the best of the best and… Continue reading We Have Answers: Questions from 2018 Cybersecurity Core Capabilities Webinar→

Come See Bromium at AFCEA West 2018 in San Diego in February

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Our public sector team will be at the show looking forward to meeting you. Set up a meeting now by simply contacting us. We can show you how application isolation works. AFCEA West 20180 is in San Diego this year starting February 6th. Our guys will be… Continue reading Come See Bromium at AFCEA West 2018 in San Diego in February→

Exclusive! Nicolas Chaillan Cyber Architect Lays Out the Ideal Security Stack [free webinar]

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Nicolas Chaillan was hired by Homeland Security to design the ultimate security stack to protect the U.S. government. He created an architecture that works for both the public sector and commercial business. His set of Core Competencies will help you b… Continue reading Exclusive! Nicolas Chaillan Cyber Architect Lays Out the Ideal Security Stack [free webinar]→

Exclusive! Nicolas Chaillan Cyber Architect Lays Out the Ideal Security Stack [free webinar]

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Bromium Honored for Excellence in Government Cybersecurity

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We have a successful track record protecting federal government customers from known and unknown attacks Leading government security awards program recognizes Bromium’s continued commitment to the public sector Bromium provides defense-grade prot… Continue reading Bromium Honored for Excellence in Government Cybersecurity→

Hackaday Links: October 1, 2017

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Remember when you first saw a USB port in a standard wall outlet? It was a really great idea at the time, but how’s that 500mA charge holding up now? Fresh from a random press release, here’s a USB 3.0 wall outlet, with USB A and C ports. 5A @ 5V. Future proof for at least several years, I guess.

This is what you call ‘pucker factor’. An Air France A380 traveling from CDG to LAX suffered an uncontained engine failure somewhere over Greenland. Everyone on board is fine, except for the fact they had to spend the night in …read more

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Rudy Giuliani has had virtually no input on U.S. cybersecurity policy

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Eight months ago, Rudy Giuliani was named a top adviser to President Donald Trump on cybersecurity matters. Yet, former and current U.S. officials say since that declaration, Giuliani has contributed little to the administration and the advisory role has yet to bear anything worthwhile. Giuliani’s so-called “cyber working group,” a vague advisory committee officially announced by Trump’s presidential transition team in early January, is rarely in contact with White House staff. It is absent and disconnected from significant decisions, said a U.S. official with knowledge of White House affairs who spoke to CyberScoop on condition of anonymity. The source, like others in this story, declined to speak on the record citing the potential for blowback from Giuliani’s allies in government. “From what I saw, it didn’t exist,” said one former senior U.S. official. On May 11, White House homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert announced the rollout of a new executive order on […]

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Trump adviser proposes broader cybersecurity oversight for private-sector critical infrastructure

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A top White House official says the U.S. government may have a more extensive role to play in defending computer networks associated with American critical infrastructure, even though most are owned and operated by the private sector. Thomas Bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, told an audience of former intelligence and defense officials Wednesday in Washington, D.C., that there are certain narrowly defined cases where the Defense Department could be more closely connected to companies and organizations that handle what the Department of Homeland Security labels as critical infrastructure. The designation applies to 16 different U.S. business sectors, including manufacturing, emergency services, energy and financial markets. There are a number of different federal agencies that are currently involved in defending the private sector from computer intrusions: the NSA, FBI, DHS and the military’s U.S. Cyber Command. Some former intelligence officials, like ex-NSA Director Keith Alexander, believe, however, that this multi-agency approach […]

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