U.S. Space Force officials said talks have been underway since early 2023 for the service to establish a formal component within the U.S. Cyber Command. Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt, deputy chief of space operations for operations, cyber and nuclear, said officials are working to determine how a partnership with CYBERCOM would look in the future […]
The Department of Justice and the FBI led a multinational operation on Tuesday to disrupt Qakbot, a malware and botnet infrastructure used to commit ransomware, financial fraud and other cybercrimes. The FBI said it flagged 700,000 infected computers worldwide, including over 200,000 in the United States. The operation saw Qakbot traffic redirected to servers that […]
Navy Rear Adm. Dennis Velez, plans and policy director for U.S. Cyber Command, underscored the importance of plan integration for his organization and the various combatant commands during the Partnership Strategy and Security Cooperation Conference. Velez said during the event held from Aug. 8 to 9 in Annapolis, Maryland, that the commands working closely will […]
Venice Goodwine, the chief information officer for the Department of the Air Force, said recruiting talented individuals to join the Cyber Excepted Service is a priority for her organization. Speaking at the annual DAF Information Technology and Cyberpower conference, Goodwine shared that the department started offering salaries similar to what the private sector provides to […]
James Sheire, chief of the cybersecurity shared services office at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, wrote in a blog post on Friday that his agency’s government-wide platform meant to receive and evaluate government organizations’ vulnerability disclosure policy submissions onboarded 40 programs and facilitated the remediation of more than 1,000 exploits by the end of […]
The Virginia National Guard hosted the Cyber Fortress 2.0 exercise, which tested how the state’s cyber response plan would work in the real world. During the event, state and federal organizations and representatives from the Finnish Defence Forces participated in a tabletop exercise to test how the cyber response plan would work in defending an […]
Elements from the U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force and Lithuanian cyber forces have partnered in a hunt forward operation. The HFO, conducted over three months and concluded in May, was the first in Lithuania involving U.S. and Lithuanian cyber operators. U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Joe Hartman, CNMF commander, said such operations expose how […]
Members of the Marine Corps Cyberspace Warfare Group and Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Battalion tested their digital defense skills at the Cyber Flag 23-2 exercise. The event, held in early August at an undisclosed location, was designed to enhance the U.S. Marines’ cyber warfare capabilities and follows the Cyber Flag 23-1 CF23-1 multinational tactical exercise […]
The Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has warned maritime stakeholders of the cyber risks posed by a logistics management platform backed by the Chinese government to maritime port equipment and networks. According to a new maritime security advisory, the National Public Information Platform for Transportation and Logistics platform, subsidized and promoted by China’s Ministry of […]
Rep. Nancy Mace, the chair of the House Oversight Committee Cybersecurity Subcommittee, has introduced the Federal Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act, which would require federal contractors to implement vulnerability disclosure policies. VDPs indicate how security researchers should notify organizations when potential exploits are discovered and what rewards can be obtained. Mace explained that mandating every contractor […]
