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By Justin Katz   The National Security Agency today announced Rob Joyce will replace Anne Neuberger as the chief of its cybersecurity directorate. Joyce, a 2018 Fed 100 winner, is currently serving as a special liaison officer for the NSA at the U.S. Embassy in London. He was previously a senior advisor for cybersecurity strategy to the NSA director. Prior to that he was a special assistant to the president and cybersecurity coordinator in the National Security Council for the Trump administra...

The incoming Biden-Harris administration announced a $1.9 trillion "rescue" package to help Americans whose incomes have taken a hit from the pandemic, which includes a major uptick in technology spending to secure government systems and spur modernization.

By SHOMIK MUKHERJEE | East Bay Times | Published: January 9, 2021 (Tribune News Service) — A Concord startup is hoping the Force will be with it when the U.S. Air Force decides which companies to award millions of dollars to so they can develop a fleet of assorted AI-equipped drone fighter planes for its hush-hush Skyborg program. Volansi, a technology company that builds winged drones at its Buchanan Field Airport location, is competing with 17 other companies including aircraft behemoths ...

The Virginia Democrat, who is set to become the chairman of the intelligence committee, also called a "full sum review" of reporting obligations by public and private sector entities following cybersecurity breaches.

The Justice Department today said hackers likely accessed about 3% of email inboxes.

By Justin Katz   The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says it has evidence that hackers are breaching the federal governments networks by other paths than the recently discovered vulnerabilities in SolarWinds Orion. "Specifically, we are investigating incidents in which activity indicating abuse of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) tokens consistent with this adversarys behavior is present, yet where impacted SolarWinds instances have not been identified," according to ...

The IRS inspector generals letter to lawmakers backs up a statement offered by a senior Democratic senator earlier this week.

By Justin Katz   FireEye chief Kevin Mandia said this weekend he estimates around 50 organizations downloaded malicious code and were "genuinely impacted" by the hacking campaign believed to have breached multiple federal agencies and Fortune 500 companies. "This threat actor wasnt a one and done," Mandia said Dec. 20 on CBS Face The Nation. "I think these are folks that weve responded to in the 90s, in the early 2000s." Mandia, whose firm is credited with initially discovering the hacking cam...

By Justin Katz   The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency today announced it has evidence suggesting hackers may have been able to breach federal networks through other means than just the SolarWinds Orion software suite. "CISA has evidence of additional initial access vectors, other than the SolarWinds Orion platform; however, these are still being investigated. CISA will update this alert as new information becomes available," according to the alert. The agency also characterized...

By Justin Katz   A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the heads of the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to brief them on the "size, scope, and details" of how a hacking campaign breached multiple agencies via a software widely used throughout the federal government. The letter is one in a series of calls to action lawmakers made this week as new details emerge about how hackers managed to breach networks at the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, Homeland Securit...