The federal government aims to streamline its information security and supply chain security procurement policies as part of an effort to bolster cyber defenses and better safeguard federal systems. The General Services Administration, NASA and the Department of Defense – the three federal agencies responsible for maintaining the extensive set of rules governing federal acquisition […]
The members of the International Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) have agreement a joint policy statement declaring that member governments should not pay ransoms demanded by cybercriminal groups. The agreement was announced during the third CRI summit in Washington, D.C this week. CRI members affirmed the importance of strong and aligned messaging discouraging paying ransomware demands […]
The mystery of how Chinese hackers managed to steal a crucial signing key that allowed them to breach Microsoft 365’s email service and access accounts of employees of 25 government agencies has been explained: they found it somewhere where it shouldn’t have been – Microsoft’s corporate environment. The theft of a Microsoft signing key In […]
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