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The rewrite of presidential policy directive 21 is expected to place CISA in a more prominent position to help combat threats to critical infrastructure.
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In his first appearance before Congress, TikTok CEO Shou Chew will make the case that the company’s U.S. operations aren’t swayed by China.
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Volunteer hacking efforts could unwittingly pull countries or private companies into a murky geopolitical mess, a researcher says.
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The White House has reached consensus between State and Defense on how to pare back NSPM-13’s precedent-setting delegation of authority to the DOD.
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The Biden administration is considering revising the Trump-era policy which gave broad cyber authorities to the Department of Defense and Cyber Command.
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A little more than a year removed from its role in advancing some of the most significant cybersecurity legislation ever enacted, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission is transforming into version 2.0 of itself. With some of its key recommendations now law — such as the creation of the Office of the National Cyber Director in the White House — the remnant of the congressionally created panel is turning its attention to tracking how those ideas are implemented, while studying some of the issues it didn’t get to fully examine before releasing its final report. Those areas of study include protecting the water, maritime transport and health care sectors, as well as strengthening the federal and private sector workforce and ensuring plans to avert disruptions to the economy caused by cyberattacks. Now housed within the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) think tank, the commission’s 2.0 work should take another two years, […]
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Tuesday’s disruption of multiple Ukrainian government websites and web services for several state-owned banks — along with spam text messages falsely claiming ATMs didn’t work — were part of a coordinated operation designed to sow panic, Ukrainian government officials claimed Wednesday. The officials said it was “too early to talk about specific actors” associated with the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, but that the targeting of multiple websites, along with the text messages, suggested an extensive effort beyond the range of an individual or even a group of hackers. The remarks, from some of Ukraine’s cybersecurity and law enforcement leaders, came at a joint briefing Wednesday that the government translated into English on Twitter. The cyber incidents came as the threat of Russian military assault on Ukraine looms large, even as the Russians and NATO governments continue talks in search of a diplomatic resolution. President Joe Biden said Tuesday that 150,000 […]
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The Homeland Security Department is establishing a Cyber Safety Review Board that will convene after major cyber events to review and act on them, according to a Federal Register notice scheduled for publication Thursday. The Federal Register notice brings to fruition an idea long circulated among cybersecurity policymakers and thinkers, one set in motion by an executive order President Joe Biden signed in May 2021. The idea is to mimic the National Transportation Safety Board that reviews civil aviation accidents. The board (CSRB) will have no more than 20 members, with one each required from DHS, its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection Agency, the Department of Justice, the National Security Agency and the FBI. The DHS undersecretary for strategy, policy and plans — a post held by Rob Silvers — will serve as the inaugural two-year chair. It will kick into effect when an incident prompts formation of a Cyber Unified […]
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A top U.S. cyber official is in Europe this week to “elevate cybersecurity as a top-tier priority at NATO and with international partners,” a senior Biden administration official told reporters Tuesday morning. Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, starts her trip in Brussels to meet with counterparts at NATO and the European Union to discuss “deterring, disrupting, and responding to further Russian aggression against Ukraine, neighboring states, and in our respective countries,” the official said. Neuberger also will make a stop in Warsaw to meet with Polish and other Baltic region officials. The week also will include “virtual meetings” with German and French officials. The trip comes as Russian military buildup along its border with Ukraine continues, and cyberattacks against Ukrainian government and nongovernmental organizations continue unabated. The U.S. and other NATO governments say military escalation could happen at any time and that the […]
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A series of Ukrainian government websites were temporarily unavailable Friday in what appeared to be a coordinated cyberattack against the backdrop of rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine. As a result of the massive hacking attack, the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other government agencies are temporarily down,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko tweeted. “Our specialists are already working on restoring the work of IT systems. We apologize for any inconvenience.” Nikolenko told The Associated Press that it was too early to say who was behind the attacks, “but there is a long record of Russian cyber assaults against Ukraine in the past.” The websites for Ukraine’s Cabinet, seven ministries, treasury, National Emergency Service and the states services website were temporarily unavailable, the AP reported. A message was posted to the sites in Ukrainian, Russian and Polish warning that personal data had been leaked—a […]
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