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By Adam Mazmanian, Justin Katz Mar 08, 2021   The Technology Modernization is poised to receive one heck of a present for its three-year anniversary – a $1 billion funding injection from Congress that would dramatically its capitalization. The TMF was founded by the Modernizing Government Technology Act and launched with $100 million. The fund has received three $25 million appropriations but overall has remained small – especially considering lawmakers initially sought to fund it with $3 ...

Lawmakers in December tasked NIST with to developing processes that would ensure software vulnerability reports flow to the appropriate government offices and the issues are promptly fixed.

The governments leading cybersecurity agency is ordering all federal civilian agencies to provide a status report on its usage of Microsoft Exchange products by noon on Friday.

By Justin Katz   Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, told a panel of senators on Tuesday that his company estimates the cybersecurity breach of nine federal agencies and 100 private companies likely took "at least a thousand" skilled and capable people to pull off. "At Microsoft as we worked with customers that had been impacted by this, we stepped back and just analyzed all of the engineering steps that we had seen and we asked ourselves how many engineers do we believed had worked on this co...

Biden addressed the global security forum for the first time as president last week when he called for the United States to cooperate with European allies on establishing cyberspace norms.

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...

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."

The lawmakers had sent a letter to the White House earlier this week urging President Joe Biden to select one official to oversee the federal government’s response to the breach.

By Justin Katz   While both public- and private-sector entities are still reeling from the consequences from the SolarWinds Orion hack, the National Institute of Standards and Technology this week published new tools to help organizations defend sensitive information against nation-state backed threats. The tools are mostly aimed at non-governmental entities responsible for housing sensitive, but unclassified government information. The security controls largely fall into one of three categori...