Dial 311 for… cybersecurity emergencies?
Members of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee of CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) have proposed an emergency …
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Karakurt extortion group: Threat profile
The FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), together with CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and other federal …
CISA issues warning about vulnerabilities in VMware and F5 products
Four of the vulnerabilities were found in VMware Inc. …
“Killware”: Is it just as bad as it sounds?
On October 12, after interviewing US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, USA TODAY’s editorial board warned its readers …
Cloud giants join new government initiative to combat cyberattacks
The agency, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, announced the initiative …
Colonial Pipeline attack expected to trigger imminent hardening of cybersecurity rules for federal agencies
The ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline last week caused the White House to hold emergency meetings to possibly strengthen a planned …
Feds: K-12 Cyberattacks Dramatically on the Rise
The feds have warned that cyberattacks on the K-12 education sector are ramping up alarmingly. In an alert from the FBI and the …
Top White House cybersecurity official expects he’ll be forced to hand in his resignation
As Donald Trump purges those he deems disloyal to him, a top cybersecurity official has said that he’s next in line to go, it was …
DHS Issues Dire Patch Warning for ‘Zerologon’
The deadline looms for U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s emergency directive for federal agencies to patch against …
Now you need a notarized document to get a .gov domain
The US government is tightening its rules around the registration of government web domains to stop fraudsters impersonating government …
U.S. Govt. Makes it Harder to Get .Gov Domains
The federal agency in charge of issuing .gov domain names is enacting new requirements for validating the identity of people requesting …
Ransomware attack forces 2-day shutdown of natural gas pipeline
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Tuesday said that an infection by an unidentified ransomware strain forced the shutdown of …
It’s Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names, or else assume there are at …