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By Lauren C. Williams   The Defense Department's testing and evaluation body has serious cybersecurity concerns when it comes to using commercial cloud offerings. The Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) wrote in its annual report for fiscal 2020 that it was "concerned with the cyber survivability" of the Defense Department's digital modernization strategy initiatives, such as the Defense Enterprise Office Solution (DEOS), a $4.4 billion contract for Microsoft Office 365 services with GDIT. "DOT&E is concerned with the cyber survivability of DMS initiatives and le...

Several industry groups sent a letter to lawmakers last week urging them to include $10 billion for cybersecurity in the next coronavirus relief bill, however congressional backers of a tech push in the relief bill say that Senate opposition makes a big push unlikely to pass. Quick Hits

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."

Quick Hits Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) introduced and withdrew an amendment proposing a $9 billion appropriation for the Technology Modernization Fund in the House Oversight Committee's markup of its portion of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief and recovering legislation last Friday. The administration's original proposal had included $9 billion for TMF, but that additional funding was cut from the package because of the objections from some in the Senate. It would have been a major lift for the revolving fund supporting IT modernization, which has been receiving annual amounts of around $25 mill...

Several industry groups sent a letter to lawmakers last week urging them to include $10 billion for cybersecurity in the next coronavirus relief bill, however congressional backers of a tech push in the relief bill say that Senate opposition makes a big push unlikely to pass.