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The Office of the National Cyber Director is plucking cybersecurity talent from the public and private sectors as the nascent office continues to fill out its leadership ranks.

The relatively new Office of the National Cyber Director has named Kemba Walden, Neal Higgins and Rob Knake to serve as deputy national cyber directors, the White House said in an announcement today.

Also: MC sits down with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to discuss government surveillance and encryption issues.

Thomas Warrick was DHS Deputy Assistant for Counterterrorism Policy from August 2008 to June 2019 and is now Director of the Future of DHS Project at the Atlantic Council. Javed Ali held senior counterterrorism positions at DHS, the FBI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the National Security Council. He is a … Continue reading "Ushering in a Transparent Revolution in Cybersecurity"

The Colonial Pipeline hearing suggests growing frustration with how easy major companies are to hack.

Leaders point to wake-up call for U.S. energy infrastructure as pipeline recovers from cyberattack Aaron Gregg, Sean Sullivan and Stephanie Hunt, The Washington Post May 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., in 2015.Associated Press file photo WASHINGTON - A major East Coast fuel pipeline lurched back to life Thursday as the nation continued to deal with the fallout from the biggest known cyberattack on U.S. energy infrastructure, but the Biden administ...

DarkSide Ransomware hit Colonial Pipeline and created Unholy Mess DarkSide was a testament to this implementation problem even before the Colonial Pipeline attack. It is aimed almost exclusively at English-speaking organizations and is believed to be a criminal group based in Russia or Eastern Europe. DarkSide malware was built to perform language checks and to shut down if it detects Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Armenian, Georgian, Kazakh, Turkmen, Romanian, and other languages ​​associ...

By Wesley K. Clark , Peter L. Levin Feb 01, 2021 The SolarWinds hack gave digital intruders unprecedented access to the networks of government agencies and most of the Fortune 500 -- an extremely serious compromise of our nation’s electronic infrastructure. Our intelligence community is still scrambling to understand what has been lost; many believe it is the most serious cybersecurity breach in history. Because we are increasingly dependent on technology services -- especially in the pandemi...

December 19, 2020 Share It’s going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of the U.S. government networks they have been quietly rifling through since as far back as March in Washington’s worst cyberespionage failure on record. Experts say there simply are not enough skilled threat-hunting teams to duly identify all the government and private-sector systems that may have been hacked. FireEye, the cybersecurity company that discovered the intrusion int...

Hacked networks will need to be burned down to the ground It’s not clear exactly what the hackers were seeking, but experts say it could include nuclear secrets and blueprints for advanced weaponry. Credit: AP FILE - This June 6, 2013 file photo, shows the sign outside the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. Author: FRANK BAJAK (AP Technology Writer) Published: 8:02 PM EST December 18, 2020 Updated: 8:25 AM EST December 19, ...