News has recently emerged that the US Census Bureau was compromised by a cyber attack in January 2020 which was traced back to a Citrix vulnerability that had just been publicly disclosed about a month prior.
Last week's White House cybersecurity summit was the Biden administration's first formal public-private meeting on the subject of national security, drawing together executives from some of the biggest names in key industries.
As part of the Biden administration's ongoing infrastructure bill project, which looks to commit trillions of dollars to addressing longtime issues with the country's vital utilities, $1.9 billion has been proposed for cybersecurity funding.
New Senate report reveals that the government’s biggest targets are not keeping pace with threats. Seven of eight federal agencies were found to have not made any meaningful improvements to their security since 2019.
The net neutrality debate has now been raging in the United States for over 20 years. Biden has made his intentions clear about once again taking the upper hand in the battle with a new executive order targeting the nation's largest broadband providers.
There has been considerable debate about banning ransomware payments as a means of curbing the explosive growth of the crime Assistant director of the FBI's cyber division weighed in, suggesting that it would create a new avenue of extortion.
Recent cyber attacks that have done damage to critical infrastructure could be a pretext for a "real shooting war," according to Joe Biden, as the president addressed the growing threats to national security in the cyber sphere.
The breach of the Microsoft Exchange email server software is estimated to have hit tens of thousands of victims. The Biden administration has formally declared that Chinese state-backed APT groups were behind the original cyber attacks.
As ransomware attacks surge and hackers become increasingly bold, the Biden administration is forging ahead with a package of new measures that includes up to $10 million for information that leads to the identification of attackers that hit critical infrastructure.
President Joe Biden warned Vladimir Putin that there would be consequences for ransomware attacks launched from Russia even if they were not sanctioned by the Kremlin.
