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The supply chain hack that targeted IT management software SolarWinds and other vendors will result in changes to the federal governments cybersecurity posture, according to the official charged with leading the administrations response.

By Justin Katz   The chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is calling on the FBI and the Environmental Protection Agency to provide more information about the cybersecurity breach at a Florida water utility earlier this month. Hackers on Feb. 5 sought to add dangerous amounts of lye to potable drinking water at a treatment facility in Oldsmar, Fla. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in an advisory notice last week hackers were able to gain control of th...

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By Lauren C. Williams   The Defense Departments testing and evaluation body has serious cybersecurity concerns when it comes to using commercial cloud offerings. The Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) wrote in its annual report for fiscal 2020 that it was "concerned with the cyber survivability" of the Defense Departments digital modernization strategy initiatives, such as the Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS), a $4.4 billion contract for Microsoft Office 3...

Several industry groups sent a letter to lawmakers last week urging them to include $10 billion for cybersecurity in the next coronavirus relief bill, however congressional backers of a tech push in the relief bill say that Senate opposition makes a big push unlikely to pass. Quick Hits

Biden will allocate $650 million for testing and $815 million for supplies from HHS and the DOD, and nearly $200 million on CDC genome sequencing.

In addition to unsealing the charges against three North Korean hackers, the U.S. government also published indicators of compromise for a family of malicious cryptocurrency applications called "AppleJeus."

With the pronouncements from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, with whom I served in Iraq, mouthing the rhetoric of the Biden (through his earpiece from his handlers) of the woke White

Quick Hits Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) introduced and withdrew an amendment proposing a $9 billion appropriation for the Technology Modernization Fund in the House Oversight Committees markup of its portion of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief and recovering legislation last Friday. The administrations original proposal had included $9 billion for TMF, but that additional funding was cut from the package because of the objections from some in the Senate. It would have been a major lift for the revo...