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Senators request urgent briefing with IRS commissioner over SolarWinds hack Follow Us Question of the Day In this Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019, file photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, center, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is joined at left by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking member, at a hearing on the high price of prescription ... more > By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times - ...

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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Trump also attacked fired election security official Chris Krebs. • 9 min read Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Greg Nash/Pool via Reuters A Republican Senate committee chairman on Wednesday used his panel to keep pressing allegations of what he called "election irregularities" as President Donald Trump appeared to watch from the White House, as Democrats decried the hearing as lending crede...

USA TODAY Corrections/clarifications: An earlier version of this article misstated Christopher Krebs message to Republicans. It has been updated to reflect he urged Republicans to stand up to threats against election officials. WASHINGTON – Former election security chief Christopher Krebs said he has not seen anything that would change his opinion that the 2020 election was secure and urged Republicans to call out threats and harassment against local election officials who have rejected b...

Conspiracy theories and lies: Dems cry foul as GOP airs unsupported election claims POLITICO 12/16/2020 By Kyle Cheney © Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs testifies Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. A Republican-led Senate panel provided a three-hour platform for allies of President Donald Trump to dispute the results of the 2020 election, with the hear...

Colorado’s Electoral College members on Monday joined electors nationwide to formally cast votes for president and vice president. All nine electors for Colorado cast ballots for former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Kamala Harris, now President-Elect and Vice President-Elect. The Colorado electors’ votes reflect the majority of votes cast by state residents in the Nov. 3 General Election. The Democratic Biden-Harris ticket carried the state 55.4% to President Donald Trump and Vice...

Print this article The National Security Council announced the establishment of a Cyber Unified Coordination Group to deal with the massive cyberattack believed to have been conducted by foreign hackers that has rattled the U.S. government as well as organizations around the world. “Pursuant to Presidential Policy Directive-41 (26 July 2016) and its Annex, a Cyber Unified Coordination Group has been established to ensure continued unity of effort across the United States Government in respo...

Getty Suspected Russian hackers broke into key government departments and gained access to internal emails. Highly sophisticated cyberattacks on federal agencies including the Treasury and Commerce departments reportedly prompted the National Security Council to meet Saturday. Several sources told Reuters that security services believed Russian hackers were behind the attacks. News of the attacks emerged less than a week after the National Security Agency warned th...

Sprawling hack of federal agencies spurs alarm in White House POLITICO 12/14/2020 By Eric Geller © AP Photo/Patrick Semansky The Treasury Department building is viewed from the Washington Monument in September 2019. Hackers got into computers at the U.S. Treasury Department and possibly other federal agencies. Hackers from a foreign nation-state have breached multiple federal agencies, including the Treasury Department and the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunicat...

HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS By   Dec 14, 2020 09:35 AM EST The United States cybersecurity agency persuaded all federal civilian agencies to assess their networks for signals of compromise after a SolarWinds network was hacked and is still exploited. SolarWinds Hack The emergency directive was released on Sunday in response to a compromise involving SolarWindss Orion products that are currently being exploited by spiteful actors, according to the Department of Homeland Securitys Cybersecurity ...