The Senate last week unanimously approved a bill requiring program and acquisition officials for federal information communications technology receive counterintelligence training related to supply chain risk management. The Supply Chain Counterintelli…
A new interagency working group led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) is looking to bolster industry participation in its effort to better protect industrial control systems, with plans to hold a series of meetings with private sect…
A Pentagon official on Tuesday said the department is working on new opportunities to improve industry’s ability to track the security of their software supply chain, citing a recent example where her office had to work with an unnamed company whose te…
Tom Bossert spends a lot of time thinking about hacking. The former Homeland Security Advisor to President Trump who also served as the country’s Chief Risk Officer and Senior Advisor on cyber, left his White House position in 2018. It happened just after Bossert spoke at The Cipher Brief’s Annual Threat Conference. He returned to …
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By Michael Yehoshua On October 23, toothpaste maker Colgate and world champion swimmer, Michael Phelps, the ambassador for the company’s Save Water initiative, headed over 1,100 organizations across the United States for the fifth annual ‘Imagine a Day…
Published on November 8, 2019 by Johanna Loock · No Comments November 06: Pegasus is a spyware created for mobile devices which transforms a cellphone into a mobile surveillance station. Researchers have documented it being used to spy on journalists. This raises significant implications for journalists’ own security and that of their sources. In 2018, Citizen Lab said it had detected Pegasus in over 45 countries. Pegasus could have been deployed against journalists…
In an effort to help small businesses and state and local governments improve their cyber security posture, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday released a set of guidelines to help these entities organize and implem…
Published on November 6, 2019 by Johanna Loock · No Comments November 05: UK based Maritime services provider James Fisher & Sons(JFS) disclosed on Tuesday that it has become a victim of a cyber attack last week and has chosen to shut down its digital systems as a precautionary measure. A third party company along with the IT Staff and few law enforcement officials are working 24/7 to recover the…
The Senate minority leader said Tuesday he has discussed legislation that would create a new office to invest $100 billion in AI research over five years and fund technology efforts in industry, at universities and several agencies, including the Penta…
Pentagon officials are pushing for increased public-private partnerships on artificial intelligence projects as industry continues to outpace the department in technology development and a new report details China’s effort to surpass the U.S. in the AI…