
The Democratic and Republican leadership of a Senate homeland security committee are asking key federal cyber security officials about the extent of compromises to federal networks arising from recently disclosed cyber hacks committed through commercial software products as well as about existing federal cyber security capabilities, roles and responsibilities, and strategy. The requests by Sens. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio) follow a hearing the leaders of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held in March to examine…