cyber attacks
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released a supplement to its March 3 emergency directive outlining new steps agencies need to take over the next three months.
April 01, 2021 -
DHS is working to protect against attacks on global positioning systems. Science and Technology Directorate technical manager Ernest Wong spoke to Federal Drive about how.
March 17, 2021 -
In the wake of the SolarWinds breach, the Senate Intelligence Committee turned to industry for recommendations on how to ensure that kind of incident doesn’t happen again.
February 24, 2021 -
SolarWinds officials are trying to make their case to agencies that they are creating more rigor and security in their development and testing processes.
February 09, 2021 -
NIST will finalize new publication NISTIR 8276 that will include eight key principles for protecting IT supply chains and release the draft to update SP 800-161, which will includes specific steps for agencies.
January 25, 2021 -
For more likely scenarios, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to the former National Security Agency chief information security officer, now with Fidelis Cybersecurity, Chris Kubic.
December 29, 2020 -
As the government deals with what might be the worst cybersecurity breach ever, National Institute of Standards and Technology Fellow Ron Ross joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin to discuss what should happen next.
December 22, 2020 -
Current and former federal cyber experts say lawmakers and the White House shouldn’t focus on why the SolarWinds cyber incident happened, but rather how federal cybersecurity needs to change to deal with similar attacks in the future.
December 21, 2020 -
The Cyberspace Solarium Commission's leadership said the SolarWinds breach has further raised the stakes for the National Defense Authorization Act that President Donald Trump has threatened to veto.
December 17, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a bipartisan group of six Senators want the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to submit a report to Congress about the impact of the SolarWinds cyber attack on agencies.
December 16, 2020 -
U.S. government agencies and private companies rushed Monday to secure their computer networks following the disclosure of a sophisticated and long-running cyber-espionage intrusion suspected of being carried out by Russian hackers
December 14, 2020 -
Hackers broke into the networks of the Treasury and Commerce departments as part of a global cyberespionage campaign revealed just days after a leading cybersecurity firm said it had been breached in an attack that industry experts said bore the hallmarks of Russian tradecraft
December 14, 2020 -
The Army Research Office is working on augmented reality goggles, radio communications for dogs who are already trained to sniff out explosives and landmines.
October 26, 2020 -
When it comes to cybersecurity federal agencies, along with many large organizations and small ones, are still digging out of the cybersecurity hole.
October 15, 2020 -
We knew coming into 2020 that we’d likely be facing adversaries attempting to influence our campaigns, elections and democracy as they did four years ago.
October 02, 2020