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CISA Orders Agencies to Mitigate Pulse Secure VPN Risks Compliance Twitter Get Permission The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued an emergency directive requiring executive branch agencies to mitigate by Friday the risks posed by a zero-day vulnerability and three other recently patched flaws in Pulse Connect Secure VPN products. On Tuesday, Ivanti, the parent company of Pulse Secure, and the security firm FireEye warned that at least two nation-state attack groups, including one with links to China, were exploiting the vulnerability to target a range of victims...

Get Permission The Biden administration is rolling out a 100-day plan to improve cybersecurity and address cyberthreats across the nation's electrical grid. The White House says the program is part of a broader cybersecurity plan designed to address issues across the nation's critical infrastructure. The 100-day initiative will involve government agencies that are responsible for the security of critical infrastructure as well as businesses and private utilities that oversee or own infrastructure, such as electrical distribution systems that deliver power to homes. "Public-private partnershi...

Senators Push for Changes in Wake of SolarWinds Attack Compliance Twitter Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The SolarWinds supply chain attack that led to follow-on attacks on nine government agencies and 100 companies points to the need for a federal law requiring prompt breach notification, several senators said at a Wednesday hearing. At the hearing, members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence heard from the leaders of the FBI, the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Office of the Director of National Intell...

President Joe Biden during the January inauguration (Source: Wikipedia) As the Biden administration makes final preparations over the next several weeks to respond to the attacks that targeted SolarWinds last year, the White House finds itself confronted by a second major cyberthreat: the hacking of Microsoft Exchange servers throughout the U.S. The unfolding attacks against Exchange email servers, which Microsoft and other security researchers announced this month, appear to number in the thousands and involve multiple hacking groups. Security analysts warn that these cyberthreats might cont...

The twin hacking campaigns involve the US’s two most powerful cyberspace adversaries, and both have led to emergency meetings of the White House National Security Council, in part because of the unusually wide net cast by the attackers.