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Cyberspace Solarium Commissioners Concerned Over Security of Nation’s Water Supply In this image from video, Rep. James Langevin, D-R.I., speaks on the floor of the House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, April 23, 2020. (House Television via AP) Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. email May 4, 2021 Having succeeded in passing a number of their recommendations through the last Nat...

Washington’s tech industry hasn’t been immune to the pandemic. Companies such as the IT giant DXC and the event-organizing platform Cvent cut jobs amid the slowdown. But some, including the hot cloud-computing company Appian, committed to hundreds of new hires. Indeed, plenty of other good business news came from Washingtonian’s Tech Titans during the past year. Our 2021 winners—who were selected through both reporting and an informal process of nominations from their peers—managed to...

The claim: Hackers use visually similar characters to deceive people in online phishing schemes Online attackers bent on stealing personal information are using a visual deception to trick people into visiting malicious websites, a post circulating on social media claims. The April 20 Facebook post shows two web addresses that, at first glance, appear identical. A closer look, though, shows that one character – in this case, the letter “a” – is slightly different in each one. “An av...

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April 30, 2021 Share For at least the third time since the beginning of this year, the U.S. government is investigating a hack against federal agencies that began during the Trump administration but was only recently discovered, according to senior U.S. officials and private sector cyber defenders. It is the latest supply chain cyberattack, highlighting how sophisticated, often government-backed groups are targeting vulnerable software built by third parties as a steppingstone to sensit...

Pulse Connect Secure hack: Five federal agencies potentially breached by hackers with suspected ties to China CNN 4 hrs ago By Geneva Sands and Brian Fung, CNN © Michael Vi/Shutterstock Pulse Secure sign at headquarters of an American computer networking company - San Jose, California, USA - 2020 At least five federal civilian agencies appear to have been breached in the latest hack to hit the US government, a discovery that follows emergency measures to mitigate potential ...

Five federal agencies potentially breached in Pulse Connect Secure hack CNN 2 hrs ago By Geneva Sands and Brian Fung, CNN © Michael Vi/Shutterstock Pulse Secure sign at headquarters of an American computer networking company - San Jose, California, USA - 2020 At least five federal civilian agencies appear to have been breached in the latest hack to hit the US government, a discovery that follows emergency measures to mitigate potential damage from the incident, according to...

For at least the third time since the beginning of this year, the U.S. government is investigating a hack against federal agencies that began during the Trump administration but was only recently discovered, according to senior U.S. officials and private sector cyber defenders. It is the latest so-called supply chain cyberattack, highlighting how sophisticated, often government-backed groups are targeting vulnerable software built by third parties as a stepping-stone to sensitive government and...

BankInfoSecurity May 20, 2021 May 3, 2021 May 5, 2021 Twitter Reps. Jim Langevin (left) and Mike Gallagher want to give CISA $400 million more in funding. Several bipartisan congressional initiatives are seeking to expand the mission of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The recently announced proposals call for CISA to beef up its staff, provide additional incident response services to organizations outside the government, conduct a five-year national risk management c...

Supernova Attack Leveraged SolarWinds, Pulse Secure DougOlenick) • April 23, 2021     Secureworks says the Bronze Spiral APT group was involved in the attack described by CISA. An advanced persistent threat group gained long-term access to an unnamed entitys network through its Ivanti Pulse Secure VPN and SolarWinds Orion server and then installed Supernova malware, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastruct...