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DoJ, FBI, IC reviewing supply chain threats posed by Russian companies

6 min read        The decision to ban Kaspersky Lab products and services from federal agency networks and systems may just have been a shot across the bow. The Justice Department is considering rolling out the big guns against companies owned and operated by Russian nationals. John Demers, the assistant attorney general for National Security in DoJ, said in light of the SolarWinds attack, Justice, along with the FBI and the intelligence community, launched a new effort to see where there may be supply chain vulnerabilities of companies that are Russian or are doing business in Russia. Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division John Demers. (Jim Watson via AP)

Lawmakers Grill Pentagon Officials on How to Prevent Another Colonial Pipeline-Style Attack

Lawmakers Grill Pentagon Officials on How to Prevent Another Colonial Pipeline-Style Attack May 18, 2021 6:39 PM NASA Photo Members of a key cyber panel wanted to know why the Department of Homeland Security wasn’t alerted to the ransomware attack that set off panic-buying of gasoline and whether the Pentagon could have taken measures to stop it before it happened. Sen. Joe Manchin, (D-W.Va.) said at Tuesday’s Senate Armed Services cyber subcommittee hearing that what happened when the Colonial Pipeline was shut down “was an attack to me” coming from outside the U.S. and had implications for the Pentagon.

Defense Dept expands vulnerability disclosure program to all publicly accessible defense systems

This expansion is a testament to transforming the government s approach to security and leapfrogging the current state of technology within DOD, he said. Before the program’s launch, researchers had no way of reporting bugs they found in publicly accessible DoD systems.  “Because of this, many vulnerabilities went unreported,  said Goldstein. The DOD Vulnerability Policy launched in 2016 because we demonstrated the efficacy of working with the hacker community and even hiring hackers to find and fix vulnerabilities in systems. Since the launch of the Vulnerability Disclosure Program, security researchers have submitted over 29,000 vulnerability reports. Officials said that over 70% of them were determined to be valid.

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