The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in its second quarter “Strengthening Federal Cybersecurity” update that over half of U.S. federal agencies automatically submit reports to the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation System. According to CISA, the Q2 2023 figure is up by 10 percentage points on-year, reaching 55 percent. CISA noted that it exceeded its […]
Rep. Vicente Gonzalez has proposed an amendment to the fiscal year 2024 defense budget requiring the departments of Defense and Homeland Security to assess cybersecurity threats to the United States border with Mexico. Gonzalez told Nextgov that he aims to implement a cyber incident prevention plan that mitigates future risks. The assessment is expected to […]
Government agencies in the United States and Canada have issued a joint advisory to warn and protect organizations from new variants of Truebot malware. According to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the FBI, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, cyber threat actors previously used phishing emails […]
The House of Representatives fiscal year 2024 defense budget seeks to direct the Department of Defense to open an office that would engage academic institutions with the aim of hiring and retaining cyber workers. Patrick Johnson, head of the DOD Chief Information Office‘s Workforce Innovation Directorate, explained during a recent Association of the U.S. Army […]
The U.S. Coast Guard’s cyber unit is asking to be recognized by the Department of Defense as a formal member of the DOD cyber mission force. The U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command operates under the Department of Homeland Security but performs missions like those of formal uniformed services within the U.S. military. CGCYBER operates primarily […]
Caitlin Conley, senior adviser to the director at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has been tasked to support election security efforts by leading partnership engagement and coordination efforts with relevant officials. Her new duties were announced by CISA Director Jen Easterly, who emphasized that protecting elections is one of the organization’s chief priorities. Easterly, […]
Jermaine Roebuck, associate director of threat hunting for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said the organization is looking to partner with additional critical infrastructure entities that operate systems supporting national critical functions under the CyberSentry program. CyberSentry provides partners with threat detection capabilities and cyberattack mitigation guidance and allows them to receive sensitive information […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency has issued a warning about a vulnerability affecting Medtronic’s cardiac devices. Medtronic’s Paceart Optima software stores and retrieves cardiac device data for programmers and remote monitoring systems for major cardiac device manufacturers. According to Medtronic, hackers can delete, steal or change data from a cardiac device if they manage to […]
Congress has received word of a data breach impacting the Department of Health and Human Services that potentially compromised the information of over 100,000 individuals. The attack involved the exploitation of a weakness in Progress Software’s MOVEit, a file transfer solution used by various government agencies and commercial firms. According to the HHS official that […]
The Government Accountability Office has published a report calling for the appointment of a permanent national cyber director to oversee efforts to address cyber threats to the United States. Currently, Kemba Walden is the acting head of the Office of the National Cyber Director. She succeeded Chris Inglis, who resigned from the role earlier in […]
