Lawmakers want to know how to mitigate cyber risk in medical devices

The document outlines how the Trump administration will tackle some of the field’s most vexing issues – including launching hacking operations and deterring adversaries.

The arrival of national security adviser John Bolton has prompted an attempted power grab by a junior member of the National Security Council, four current officials with knowledge of the matter told CyberScoop.

The forum was the first of its kind and came about a month after federal spending legislation provided states with $380 million for election security.

Private firms won’t have any reservations about supporting the more robust cybersecurity strategy that the Department of Homeland Security will soon release, according to the department’s top cyber official.

The evidence in the Yevgeniy Nikulin case will take at least two months for defense attorneys to sort through because of the sheer amount of data involved.

An NSA official says 24 hours after Equifax's breach was made public, a nation-state was scanning DoD for unpatched Apache Struts instances.

Six states discussed with the main sponsors of the Secure Elections Act how they would implement the bill.

A forthcoming cybersecurity strategy from the Department of Homeland Security will seek to curb “systemic risk” to critical infrastructure by helping to secure digital tools used across sectors, DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said.

The participant companies' principles include not helping any government mount a cyberattack against "innocent civilians and enterprises."

The new version updates the federal agency's guidelines in several areas, including authentication and identity; cyber risk self-assessments; managing supply chain cybersecurity; and vulnerability disclosure.

The Defense Department must do more to take advantage of automation tools to avoid drowning in a sea of network data and risk missing cyber threats, according to a top department official.

The new national security adviser will restructure aspects of the coordinator job, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said.

Persistent supply chain vulnerabilities such as hardware and software bugs “amount to a digital public health crisis” that the government and private sector must work together to resolve, according to the Department of Homeland Security’s top cybersecurity official.

The departures of Joyce and Bossert leave big gaps in the Trump administration's cybersecurity expertise.

The U.S. and Britain are issuing a joint alert that Russia-backed hackers are targeting internet routers used by offices and residences worldwide.

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers wrote to FBI Director Christopher Wray Friday, asking for answers related to the bureau's work around encryption.

Mick Mulvaney revealed Thursday that the agency had suffered some 240 “lapses” in data security over an unspecified time period, in addition to a suspected 800 other such incidents.

Paper records can't be hacked, and Pennsylvania is taking steps to make them an ingredient of all of its voting machines.

GCHQ head Jeremy Fleming revealed that the U.K. has conducted a proactive cyber campaign against ISIS, touting the notion of using offensive cyberattacks to counter violent extremism.

The former CISO of the Department of Health and Human Services is taking a role at one of the country's largest voting machine manufacturers as its head of security.