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Image credit: Mike Stewart Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. The recent Colonial Pipeline hack created shortages and panic-buying of gasoline, and also raised questions about federal oversight of critical energy infrastructure. It may come as a surprise to learn that the Transportation Security Administration, whose officers screen luggage and...

/ The recent Colonial Pipeline hack created shortages and panic-buying of gasoline, and also raised questions about federal oversight of critical energy infrastructure. It may come as a surprise to learn that the Transportation Security Administration, whose officers screen luggage and carry-ons at airport check-in gates, also has responsibility for the cybersecurity of energy pipelines. "This dates back to the 9/11 era when Congress created TSA," said Robert Knake, a senior fellow at...

Listen • 5:25 President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at strengthening the federal government’s cybersecurity and laying out guidelines for private agencies. Meanwhile, the Colonial Pipeline resumed service Wednesday night after a ransomware attack took down operations, prompting a run on gas stations in the Southeastern US. To discuss future vulnerabilities in the U.S., Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley speaks with Robert Knake, an expert on cybersecurity at the...

'Clearly this idea that we can outsmart our enemies is no longer true. It's a fallacy and we have to really recalibrate and focus on defense. Otherwise we're just so screwed,' author and New York Times cybsecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth says.

At present, the United States foreign policy for the internet is absent, and much of the country’s policy efforts could be summed up as “not what China is doing,” a rejectionist attitude beset on all sides by purposeful adversaries and weakened alliances.