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DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data

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A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration’s continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in touch so they can be rehired and then immediately placed on leave, asking employees to send their Social Security number or date of birth in a password-protected email attachment — presumably with the password needed to view the file included in the body of the email. Continue reading DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data→

Former top NSA cyber official: Probationary firings ‘devastating’ to cyber, national security

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Rob Joyce emphasized during a House hearing how important probationary employees are to NSA efforts to counter China and other threats in cyberspace.

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AI is helping US spies catch stealthy Chinese hacking ops, NSA official says

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Machine learning tools are aiding U.S. security agencies to catch operations relying on so-called “living off the land” techniques.

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‘No guns, no guards, no gates.’ NSA opens up to outsiders in fight for cybersecurity

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The National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center is trying to improve threat-sharing with private sector partners.

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Spy agency embraces meme culture and the internet is here for it

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The NSA cybersecurity director’s memes suggest the Pentagon may have finally figured out how to use internet culture to its advantage.

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NSA cyber chief says Ukraine war is compelling more intelligence sharing with industry

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Rob Joyce, head of the NSA Cybersecurity Directorate, said “what we know is often not sensitive, it is how we know it.”

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Chinese state-sponsored hackers have become more brazen, prompting an NSA advisory

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Chinese hackers have become increasingly brazen and are investing more time to stealing intellectual property and breaking into sensitive networks, according to National Security Agency cyber chief Rob Joyce.

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Top cyber feds working toward fresh models of an old mantra: cyber collaboration

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They cited progress with structures like the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.

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Hackers with Chinese links breach defense, energy targets, including one in US

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Suspected spies using similar tools and tactics to a Chinese government-connected hacking group compromised nine organizations in the defense, education, energy and health care industries across the globe beginning in September, according to new research. The hackers were “indiscriminate” in targeting that included parts of the U.S. Defense Department, according to Palo Alto Networks, which published its findings on Sunday with an assist from the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center. That center primarily works with defense contractors to collect and share threat information. At least one of the victims was a U.S. organization, Palo Alto Networks said, but didn’t name the nine compromised entities. The company “believes that the actor’s primary goal involved gaining persistent access to the network and the gathering and exfiltration of sensitive documents from the compromised organization.” The research comes on the heels of a Sept. 16 warning from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity […]

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‘Almost every nation’ now has cyber vulnerability exploitation program, NSA official says

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Nearly every country on the planet now has a program to exploit digital vulnerabilities, a top National Security Agency cyber official said Wednesday, and while most are focused on espionage, more are beginning to experiment with more aggressive techniques. Rob Joyce, director of cybersecurity at the NSA, said there’s a lot of focus on China, Iran, North Korea and Russia, but those countries, which he described as the “big four,” are not the only nations weaponizing technology. “Almost every nation in the world now has a cyber exploitation program. The vast majority of those are used for espionage and intelligence purposes,” Joyce said at the Aspen Cyber Summit. “There is interest in dabbling in offensive cyber and outcomes.” Even some smaller nations have proven to be advanced, Joyce said. It’s just that they’re usually more confined in how they pursue their national interests, by things like the amount of money […]

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