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The EPA is also convening a task force to take on some of the challenges facing the sector around cybersecurity efforts.
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National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone addressed the elephant in the room on Thursday during testimony on Capitol Hill: How could the U.S. government have missed SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange Server hacking until after the malicious activity was already well underway? “It’s not the fact that we can’t connect the dots — we can’t see all the dots,” Nakasone said, acknowledging that the U.S. government, including the NSA, does not have a view into foreign hacking campaigns when they exploit domestic internet infrastructure. “We have a difficulty as a government understanding the totality of the actual intrusion.” The suspected Russian and Chinese hackers behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack and the hacking stemming from the Microsoft Exchange Server vulnerabilities, respectively, used U.S.-based computers and servers to launch their operations. It’s an indication to some, including White House officials, that intruders deliberately sought to bypass detection by the U.S. intelligence community. […]
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John Bolton’s tell-all on his time serving as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser could reveal classified information and damage U.S. signals intelligence collection if published, the National Security Agency Director, Gen. Paul Nakasone, said Wednesday. “At the request of the National Security Council legal adviser I have reviewed a limited portion of [Bolton]’s draft manuscript, and have identified classified information in that portion of the manuscript,” Nakasone said in a signed affidavit. “Compromise of this information could result in the permanent loss of a valuable SIGINT [signals intelligence] source and cause irreparable damage to the U.S. SIGINT system.” Nakasone’s assessment of Bolton’s book was filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington alongside an emergency Department of Justice filing seeking to block the release of Bolton’s book. The Trump administration sued Bolton on Tuesday in an attempt to delay the memoir’s publication, alleging that his book contained classified information and that […]
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The Department of Defense has not finally decided whether to separate the leadership of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command and has not begun to meet the congressionally mandated conditions for doing so, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday. A provision in last year’s National Defense Authorization Act required the Secretary of Defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to jointly certify that ending the so-called dual-hat arrangement — under which the same four-star general is both NSA director and in charge of U.S. Cyber Command — will not pose risks to the command’s military effectiveness. “As of April 2017, DOD’s senior leaders had not decided whether the dual-hat leadership should be ended,” states the GAO report, adding that department’s leaders were “reviewing the steps and funding necessary to meet the statutory requirements of Section 1642” but had not yet begun to do so. The NDAA […]
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