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Cybersecurity
U.S. To Go on Offense in Cyberspace, Bolton Says
The strategy comes shortly after a directive that reduced interagency checks before a U.S. cyber strike.
Cybersecurity
Company That Pushed Hackers Out of DNC Now Protecting Government Systems
CrowdStrike is authorized to protect ‘moderate impact level’ cloud-based government systems.
Cybersecurity
State Department Confirms Email Data Breach
The breach may have compromised employee personal information in less than 1 percent of email inboxes.
Cybersecurity
Government Gets Poor Marks Securing Students' Personal Info
The office isn’t effectively monitoring cyber protections after it shares student information, including with collection agencies.
Cybersecurity
Homeland Security Invests $11.6 Million in Countering Large-Scale Internet Outages
The grants are focused on the effect outages could have on critical infrastructure.
CIO Briefing
Fed Pay Raises Rise From the Dead and Congress Says “Meh” to Trump’s Election Security Order
It was a whirlwind week on the Hill. Here’s the Nextgov rundown.
Cybersecurity
Kaspersky Faces Tough Questions at Appeals Court
The Russian anti-virus software company faces what could be its last chance to make its case against a U.S. governmentwide ban.
Cybersecurity
Senate-Passed Bill to Hack DHS Heads to House Floor
The bill would create the first departmentwide bug bounty in the civilian government.
Cybersecurity
Declassified Report Describes Confusion Around Military Cyber Responsibilities in 2014
The inspector general’s report describes poor communication and combatant commanders who hadn’t tallied up their cyber resources.
Policy
Trump Administration Preps Sanctions Against Foreign Election Interference
The new executive order describes a process for sanctioning digital interference, propaganda and any other efforts to meddle in U.S. elections.
Cybersecurity
Half of Government and Military Employees Used Awful Passwords for LinkedIn, Report Finds
Yes, one of them was “password”—and even in 2012 there was no excuse for that.
CIO Briefing
Government Publishing Office Names New CIO
CIO Sam Musa previously worked at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and FBI.
Cybersecurity
As Kaspersky Deadline Approaches, Fears Loom That Contractors Aren’t Prepared
Some contractors may not be aware the ban applies to them or that they’re running Kasperksy in the first place. Others don’t understand how complex removing it will be.
CIO Briefing
The House is Shuttling Through Tech and Cyber Bills but the Senate’s Behind
The House passed bills on cyber sanctions, supply chain security and CDM last week.
Cybersecurity
Ransomware Strikes Launched a Cyber Cleansing Program at Transportation
The Transportation Department started with a bug hunting campaign that turned up unexpected vulnerabilities in headquarters computer systems.
Cybersecurity
DOJ Releases Charges Against Last of Four Top U.S. Cyber Adversaries
The Grand Slam charges target a single North Korean hacker for Sony, WannaCry and the Bangladeshi bank heist.
Cybersecurity
DHS Secretary Urges Hit-Back-Harder Response to Cyber Strikes
That muscular response strategy may sow confusion and risk escalation, a cyber law scholar says.
Cybersecurity
House Passes Bill Expanding DHS’ Power to Block Risky Contractors from Government Networks
The move comes after Congress took action in the past year to boot the Russian anti-virus maker Kaspersky Lab and the Chinese telecom firms Huawei and ZTE from federal networks.
Cybersecurity
NIST’s Next Framework Focuses on Protecting Consumers’ Privacy
The Commerce Department agency will begin gathering feedback for a privacy framework at a Texas conference in October.
CIO Briefing