The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that Verizon Business Network Services has agreed to a $4.1 million settlement to resolve False Claims Act allegations of failure to fully satisfy cybersecurity controls on government contracts. The claims stemmed from lapses in three cybersecurity controls required in internet connection and other external network contracts that the unit […]
Not-for-profit organization Mitre has released an extension for its open-source Caldera platform to enable automated exercises replicating threats to operational technology, which are hardware and software that detect or change industrial equipment and processes through monitoring and control. Caldera is an adversary emulation platform built on Mitre Att&ck and is aimed at supporting cybersecurity personnel […]
Six K-12 software providers have committed to developing products with enhanced security. PowerSchool, Classlink, Clever, GG4L, Instructure and D2L voluntarily signed a pledge for K-12 education technology software manufacturers in line with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s secure-by-design whitepaper. By signing the pledge, the companies agree to take ownership of customer security outcomes, embrace […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking organizations interested in supporting a National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence project that aims to accelerate the adoption of digital identities, including digital driver’s licenses. NIST intends to partner with experts from industry, government and academia through an NCCoE cooperative research and development agreement, under which selected […]
The United States and its allies have released a joint report on a new malware campaign targeting Android devices used by the Ukrainian military. According to the report, a Russian military hacking team called Sandworm deployed the Infamous Chisel malware, allowing threat actors to access mobile devices to scrape multiple files containing credentials and key […]
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 […]
