Cyber
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CyberSecret Service Consolidates Electronic And Financial Crimes Units Into Cyber Fraud Task Force
The Secret Service has merged two task forces focused on electronic and financial crimes into a new Cyber Fraud Task Forces (CFTFs), a recognition traditional cyber and financial crimes are […]
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PentagonLord Focused On Bolstering DoD’s Domestic Supply Chain For Microelectronics, Rare Earth Mineral Processing
The Pentagon’s top acquisition official on Wednesday detailed a new focus toward bolstering the domestic supply chain for microelectronics fabrication and rare earth mineral processing. Ellen Lord, the under secretary […]
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Cyber
Federal Partnership To Share Risk Information On Communications Supply Chain
A presidential advisory agency has established an interagency partnership at the direction of Congress to share information about supply chain security risks in the communications equipment and services industries to […]
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CyberCISA Releases Strategy For More Proactive Approach To Industrial Control System Cyber Security
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released a new strategy aimed at boosting the cyber security of control systems used in industrial processes and demonstrating the agency’s […]
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CyberCarnegie Mellon Receives $2.7 Billion Extension From DoD To Continue Operating Software Engineering Institute
The Pentagon has agreed to a deal with Carnegie Mellon University, worth up to $2.7 billion, to continue operating its Software Engineering Institute (SEI) for an additional five years. SEI […]
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CongressHASC Adds NDAA Amendments Based On Recommendations From AI, Cyber Commissions
The House Armed Services Committee added several amendments to its fiscal year 2021 defense authorization bill per recommendations from new artificial intelligence and cyber commissions, to include bolstering private sector […]
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CongressSenators Introduce Cyber Security Amendments To Defense Bill
A small bipartisan group of senators has filed two amendments to the fiscal year National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one requiring the Department of Homeland Security to establish federally funded […]
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Business/FinancialSealingTech Acquires Small Cyber Security Firm Quark
Sealing Technologies last Friday said it has acquired Quark Security, enabling it provide cyber security lifecycle services to its federal government and industry customers. Terms of the deal between the […]
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Congress
House Cyber Leaders Introduce Bipartisan Bill To Establish National Cyber Director
Legislation to establish a permanent, Senate-confirmed presidential cyber security adviser with authority to review federal cyber budgets, and coordinate and develop the national cyber security strategy was introduced in the […]
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Homeland SecurityPekoske Updates Guidance For TSA Strategy; Agency Seeks ‘Near Contactless’ Checkpoint
The Transportation Security Administration needs to move toward a “near contactless experience” at airport checkpoints through the use of new concepts and technology, the agency’s chief said in updated guidance […]