The package, named Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act, combines three bills introduced in the fall of 2021: the Cyber Incident Reporting Act, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2021, and the Federal Secure Cloud Improvement and Jobs Act. If the bill becomes law, critical infrastructure owners and operators, as well as civilian federal agencies, will […]
It could have been a script from a B movie. Top military officials from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization fell victim to a cyber attack because they simply accepted a fake friend request on Facebook. In a tried and true attack, cyber criminals once again exploited users’ implicit an unquestioning trust on social networks by […]
Last night, US TV station CNBC broadcast a documentary entitled “CodeWars: America’s Cyber Threat”, looking at the threat of cyberwarfare, hacker attacks on critical infrastructure and the risk of technology made in China containing spyware. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn was amongst those interviewed, who confirmed that US government networks receive thousands of attempted hacker […]
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