Collaborate Disseminate
Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff and former Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick will lead a review of DHS’s disinformation work and help Secretary Mayorkas determine how to continue.
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Any nation-state behind recent hijackings of Domain Name System (DNS) records should, in theory, be held responsible under the latest cyberwarfare norms agreement made by 20 countries at the UN in 2015, says America’s top cyber diplomat. “One of the norms is disrupting physical infrastructure providing services to the public, and I think that fully encapsulates the internet’s DNS function,” Amb. Robert Strayer told CyberScoop Tuesday on the sidelines of the Atlantic Council’s International Conference on Cyber Engagement. The 2015 UN agreement, outlined in a Group of Government Experts (GGE), affirms that nation-states shouldn’t launch cyberattacks that intend to damage critical infrastructure in other countries. The DNS — which translates human-readable domain names of websites to their machine-readable versions — has a crucial role in directing internet traffic. But subsequent UN talks reportedly fell apart in 2017 over disagreements China and Russia had with the rest of the member states about whether further enhancements to the GGE document would impinge on their right to self-defense in […]
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Cybersecurity within the health care sector will only become a more dire issue for politicians and doctors alike as connected technology continues to expand, a panel of experts speaking at the Bipartisan Policy Center agreed Wednesday. Former acting CIA Director Michael Morrell and former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff pointed to the rapid integration of smart technology into U.S. health care system since 2008, and they noted the sector’s exposure to ransomware, data theft and disruption of connected devices. Devices such as network-connected pacemakers are vulnerable to hackers in three ways, Morrell said: through a vulnerable internet-connected network; by infiltration of the supply chain from manufacturers to hospitals; or through insider manipulation at health care facilities. The insider threat is the most direct and therefore more potentially devastating one, he said. Expanding the conversation, he said cybersecurity across all sectors “is the second-biggest threat facing the U.S. after international terrorism, and it’s the fastest-growing […]
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