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A Defense Department appropriations bill that would provide $356 million in additional funding for DoD cyber research cleared the Senate this week. The Senate voted 93-7 to adopt the Department [...]

The Defense Department this week released an unclassified summary of its new cyber strategy that calls on the U.S. military to 'defend forward to disrupt or halt malicious cyber activity [...]

The Trump administration has rescinded a presidential policy directive (PPD) signed by former President Obama that required several approval steps before an offensive cyber operation could be launched against a [...]

Defending U.S. elections from interference and hackers requires a view of the threat landscape that includes new potential attackers other than Russia, according to Joseph Lorenzo Hall, chief technologist at [...]

Presidential authority for dealing with cyber attacks are among 'the big issues' that courts and future judicial nominees will have to address in the coming years, Supreme Court nominee and [...]

The U.S. and its closest international partners have agreed 'to further strengthen connectivity between our cyber watch offices to enhance shared 24/7 monitoring of hostile cyber activity,' according to a [...]

Thirty-one organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy & Technology, New America's Open Technology Institute, and TechFreedom, have urged the Senate Judiciary Committee leadership to 'consider [...]

Armed with a court order, Microsoft Corp. seized six Internet domains that the company believes were being readied for a cyber espionage campaign against two Washington think tanks and the [...]

An election equipment vendor that has been dismissive of cybersecurity researchers' demonstrations of the ease with which voting systems can be hacked was asked some pointed questions in a letter [...]

The federal government needs to consider allowing private entities to 'hack back' at adversaries in cyberspace to deter attacks and should 'stress test' a widely praised voluntary cybersecurity framework for [...]

A Defense Department appropriations bill that would provide $356 million in additional funding for DoD cyber research cleared the Senate this week. The Department of Defense Appropriations Act for fiscal [...]

A Senate committee this week postponed 'until further notice' its consideration of an election cybersecurity bill that apparently lacks sufficient support from Republicans. The Senate Rules and Administration Committee had [...]

Four members of the House Intelligence Committee have introduced the bipartisan Secure Elections Act, which would enable state and local governments to obtain grants to strengthen election systems against cyber [...]

Operators of large electrical generating and transmission facilities will have to report attempted cyber intrusions, even when those intrusions are unsuccessful, under a rule published this week in the 'Federal [...]

Federal agencies should do a better job of prioritizing their network assets and focus their cybersecurity efforts on protecting the assets that are most vital to an agency's mission, a [...]

Legislation that would provide $1.1 billion for cybersecurity programs at the Department of Homeland Security was approved this week by the House Appropriations Committee by a vote of 29-22. Democrats [...]

Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee this week requested a public hearing with Daniel Coats, the director of national intelligence, to learn more about cyber attacks on [...]

Legislation that would provide $1.1 billion for cybersecurity programs at the Department of Homeland Security was released this week by the House Appropriations Committee. The DHS appropriations bill for fiscal [...]

The U.S. intelligence community has not yet seen a 'robust' effort by Russian government operatives to interfere in the 2018 elections but continues to detect Russian activity on social media [...]

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week approved a bill that would require the State Department to establish an Office of Cyberspace and the Digital Economy headed by a Senate-confirmed [...]

The National Governors Association's Resource Center for State Cybersecurity this week said it was helping four states--Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Wisconsin--modernize their cybersecurity plans and infrastructure with a [...]

Congressional leaders from both parties this week sent a strongly worded letter that expressed confusion about the cybersecurity strategy of the Department of Health and Human Services. A 'Cyber Threat [...]

A Defense Department authorization bill that would allow as many as 50 DoD personnel to work at the Department of Homeland Security on cybersecurity issues is due to be marked [...]

The Department of Homeland Security is putting the finishing touches on a cybersecurity strategy and should submit the document, which was due more than a year ago, to lawmakers within [...]

The House Intelligence Committee's Republican membership this week published a declassified report on the Russian government's interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election that criticizes the Federal Bureau of Investigation [...]

The Minnesota state Senate Committee on State Government, Finance, Policy, and Elections has recommended a bill that would require state agencies to dedicate a portion of their information technology expenditures [...]

A group of 34 technology companies this week unveiled a 'Cybersecurity Tech Accord' in which they agreed to defend their customers from malicious attacks by cyber criminals and nation-states. 'We [...]

Legislation that would require the Internal Revenue Service to devise a plan to fight cyber threats and counter identity theft cleared the House this week. The Taxpayer First Act (HR [...]

Four bills that would elevate cybersecurity as a priority within the Department of Energy and direct the development of programs to protect the power grid from cyber attacks cleared the [...]

Officials in the U.S. and United Kingdom this week issued an unusual joint alert to warn Internet service providers and the private sector about a cyber threat that they attributed [...]

The White House this week sent 'a report regarding the policy of the United States on cyberspace, cybersecurity, and cyber warfare' to the leaders of four House committees and four [...]

The State Department is waiting for the confirmation of Michael Pompeo, currently director of the Central Intelligence Agency, as secretary of State before the 'official standing up' of a Bureau [...]

Top House Democrats this week asked House Speaker Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) to help them obtain documents from the Trump administration regarding cyber attacks on state election offices prior to [...]

Legislation that would require the Internal Revenue Service to devise a plan to fight cyber threats and counter identity theft cleared the House Ways and Means Committee this week on [...]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has sophisticated capabilities to conduct offensive and defensive operations in cyberspace but lacks the structure, clarity of leadership, and rules of engagement to deploy them, [...]

A proposed bill in the Minnesota state Senate would require state agencies to dedicate a portion of their information technology expenditures to cybersecurity enhancements. SF 3764, sponsored by Sen. Mary [...]

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee this week expressed doubts that the Department of Homeland Security had done enough to guard against election hacking and interference in 2016 or was [...]

The omnibus appropriations bill that cleared Congress this week would boost spending on cybersecurity programs at the Department of Homeland Security and would provide $380 million in grant funding to [...]

The House Small Business Committee this week approved two bills aimed at helping small businesses fend off cyber attacks. The Small Business Development Center Cyber Training Act (HR 3170) would [...]

House legislation that would elevate cybersecurity as a priority within the Department of Energy and direct the development of programs to protect the power grid from cyber attacks received tentative [...]

The Treasury Department this week announced it would impose economic sanctions against five entities and 19 individuals that it said had assisted Russian government efforts to conduct cyber attacks on [...]

The Department of Homeland Security should move more quickly to deploy a network security system known as continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM), according to Rep. John Ratcliffe (R., Texas), chairman [...]

A group of House Democrats this week unveiled a report detailing the Russian government's ongoing use of cyber attacks and disinformation to undermine U.S. elections and democracy worldwide, and they [...]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has established a 'foreign influence task force' to address threats to U.S. election systems, FBI Director Christopher Wray told the House Judiciary Committee this week. [...]

Louisiana's Secretary of State this week disagreed that voting systems in the U.S. were vulnerable to hackers, at least the systems in use in Louisiana. 'We are not naive about [...]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission intends to issue proposed cybersecurity rules for 'certain nuclear fuel cycle facility (FCF) licensees' by March 2017, according to guidance issued this week. The NRC has [...]

Thirteen senators from both sides of the aisle this week asked the Trump administration to seek United Nations sanctions to halt North Korea's use of ransomware and other cyber attacks [...]

The federal government should attempt a 'national mobilization effort'--a 'moonshot'--to address the cyber vulnerabilities of the Internet ecosystem and the Internet of things, according to a draft report from the [...]

A bill designed to improve information-sharing and cooperation in addressing cybersecurity risks at the nation's ports cleared the House this week on a voice vote. The Strengthening Cybersecurity Information Sharing [...]

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) intends to adopt new cybersecurity rules 'to address the risks posed by malware from transient electronic devices' such as laptop computers and thumb drives [...]