Over the New Year's holiday weekend, Belarusian hacktivists shut down the country's leading state-owned media outlet, claiming they had wiped the main website servers and backups of BelTA. The group said its actions had been retaliation against President Alexander Lukashenko's propaganda campaign.
Albania's Parliament and a telecommunications service provider faced online attacks on Christmas day, according to the Albanian National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security. Iranian hackers called Homeland Justice have claimed responsibility for the latest wave of attacks.
This week, a breach at real estate firm Wealth Network exposed 1.5 billion records, Corewell Health patients were hit by a second breach, data of 1.3M LoanCare mortgage customers was exposed, and Yakult Australia admitted to experiencing a "cybersecurity incident" that exposed 95 gigabytes of data.
The U.S. Department of Defense released a draft of a long-awaited proposed rule for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program that aims to simplify compliance, enhance public-private coordination and better protect sensitive information from cyberthreats.
Ground control to the space industry: Take your static cybersecurity practices and upgrade them to a dynamic model. So says NASA's first-ever security best practices guide for space communications, part of an effort to make mission security requirements more accessible.
Air Force Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh has been confirmed as the next head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command after Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., ended a 10-month protest over a Pentagon policy allowing service members to seek travel reimbursement and paid time off when in need of an abortion.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced plans to launch a two-year effort beginning in 2024 to modernize its legacy Automated Indicator Sharing program as part of an effort to enhance collaboration with the private sector and provide more actionable data to its partners.
Co-chairs of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission praised the annual U.S. national defense bill for enacting recommendations from its 2020 report, saying the bill marks "meaningful" advancements for cybersecurity. With the bill, 58 out of the commission's 82 recommendations will have been enacted.
The departments of Commerce, State and Justice are among the 20 agencies identified in a Government Accountability Office report as having failed to meet key cyberthreat incident response deadlines outlined in the 2021 cybersecurity executive order.
The FCC approved new guidelines that note how data breaches "have only grown in frequency and severity" since the commission adopted its privacy protection policies 16 years ago. The new rules aim to provide customers and law enforcement with real-time information about critical security incidents.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency released an advisory Wednesday warning that a Russian military intelligence unit has been actively exploiting a widely used software product since September as part of an effort to gain long-term access to compromised systems.
The U.K. government is in no rush to legislate artificial intelligence, Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Michelle Donelan said on Wednesday, warning that a hard regulatory approach to AI could risk stifling innovation in this emerging sector of the economy.
A National Institute of Standards and Technology official said agencies are facing a variety of challenges in implementing enterprisewide zero trust architectures, from a lack of insight into their network components to difficult decisions around legacy systems and costly procurement initiatives.
Procurement experts testified to the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation on Wednesday that government requirements leave too many unanswered questions and ambiguities for federal agencies when it comes to implementing SBOMs.
A vendor focused on fast-tracking government access to commercial software closed its Series B funding round to support more classified and regulated environments. The $40 million will allow Second Front Systems to support additional bespoke networks in the U.S. Defense and National Security space.
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