Washington Headquarters Services Seeking Provider for Cybersecurity Assessment, Engineering Services Requirement

The Washington Headquarters Services is conducting market research to determine the availability of small businesses capable of providing cybersecurity assessments and engineering services for the Raven Rock Mountain Complex’s facility-related control systems. The services will also support other networks essential to the protection and availability of FRCS such as power generation, uninterrupted power systems and […]
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Congress Seeks Increased Collaboration Between DOD, Academia to Address Cyber Workforce Issue

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 […]
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US, Canadian Agencies Warn Organizations About New Truebot Malware Variants

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 […]
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CISA Warns Health Care Organizations of Paceart Optima Software Vulnerability

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 […]
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CISA Seeking New CyberSentry Program Partners

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 […]
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CISA Expands Senior Adviser to the Director Role to Cover Election Security

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, […]
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Department of Health and Human Services Suffers Data Breach From MOVEit Vulnerability

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 […]
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CYBERCOM Says Program Sharing Cybersecurity Information With Private Sector Improves Resilience

The U.S. Cyber Command said its Under Advisement program improves cybersecurity capabilities by sharing information with the private industry and other partners. Maj. Gen. William Hartman, commander of CYBERCOM’s Cyber National Mission Force, said UNAD, an unclassified program, supports the private sector’s ability to obtain cybersecurity daya by delivering expertise and insights, which companies can […]
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