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White House to Regulate Cloud Security: Good Luck With That

White House to Regulate Cloud Security: Good Luck With That

| | Biden administration, Biden National Cybersecurity Strategy, Cloud Security, cybersecurity regulation, regulation, SB Blogwatch, White House
Be careful what you wish for: Biden wants new regulations for cloud providers—but we’re not sure it’ll help ...
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Ban TikTok, say FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, GOP, DNC, POTUS (but not ACLU)

Ban TikTok, say FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, GOP, DNC, POTUS (but not ACLU)

| | ACLU, Biden administration, Bytedance, CIA, DATA Act, DNI, FBI, FBI Director Christopher Wray, nsa, RESTRICT Act, SB Blogwatch, senate hearing, TikTok, US Senate, White House
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. RESTRICT: The White House and both sides of the Senate agree that TikTok needs to be stopped—or at least RESTRICT’ed. A bipartisan bill seeks to make that happen ...
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‘Finish Him!’ US Kills Huawei With Final Tech Ban

‘Finish Him!’ US Kills Huawei With Final Tech Ban

| | Biden administration, CCP, china, chinese government, exports, Huawei, SB Blogwatch
U.S. cuts off Huawei’s last sources of technology. Export licenses for chips and other tech components are finished ...
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FBI/CISA Failed: Biden’s Ransomware Summit Convenes, Impotently

FBI/CISA Failed: Biden’s Ransomware Summit Convenes, Impotently

| | Biden administration, Biden cybersecurity summit, President Biden, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, the Russians will be selling USB wristbands outside the summit, White House
The International Counter Ransomware Summit is on in D.C., with 36 nations and blocs. But will it amount to anything of substance? ...
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US Gov't Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris

US Gov’t Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris

| | Biden administration, CIA, Department of Commerce, FBI, five eyes, L3Harris, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, SB Blogwatch, So when is Elon Musk going to make them an offer?, White House
NSO Group, notorious makers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, has been in acquisition talks with huge defense contractor L3Harris ...
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Biden Revs Up US Quantum Plans (Because China)

Biden Revs Up US Quantum Plans (Because China)

| | Biden administration, china, cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer, National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, post quantum, President Biden, quantum computing, quantum information science, SB Blogwatch, The white house might as well prioritize research into unicorns
This week, the White House issued a memorandum and executive order that put a shedload of wood behind the quantum-computing arrow ...
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Biden Administration Seeks 2023 Cybersecurity Spend Increase

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The just-released White House fiscal year 2023 federal budget proposes nearly $11 billion in cybersecurity spending for agencies not directly in defense. The request is an 11% increase from the fiscal 2022 ...
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Biden Signs Authority for NSS to NSA: Think CISA for Military, Intel Systems

| | Biden administration, executive order improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity, national security, nsa, NSS
Depending on how you look at it, President Biden’s Wednesday memorandum—which gave the NSA the type of authority over agencies operating national security systems that the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) ...
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Best of 2021 – DarkSide Ransomware Gang Struck Down — but by Whom?

| | Biden administration, Colonial Pipeline, Darkside, If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, White House
DarkSide, hackers of the Colonial Pipeline, has hurriedly shut up shop. It claims that its servers and cryptocurrency balances have disappeared ...
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Aligning Cloud Security to the Cybersecurity Exec Order

| | Biden administration, Cloud Security, Container Security, Cybersecurity, white house executive order cybersecurity framework
It’s encouraging to see alignment between the Biden administration and industry around the critical nature of cybersecurity and see pragmatic steps forward. The White House’s issuance of an executive order (EO) on ...
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