The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 includes a provision that seeks to make the deployment of cyber personnel from the individual military services to U.S. Cyber Command more uniform. The provision calls on the secretary of defense to require the military services to conform to […]
Space industry experts highlighted the need to enhance the security of space systems during a summit on Tuesday, given the reliance of critical infrastructure on satellite services. Sam Visner, a tech fellow at The Aerospace Corp., said finance, energy, oil and gas, transportation, health care and agriculture are among the major sectors depending on space-based […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
