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Hacker Pleads Guilty to Access Supreme Court, AmeriCorps, VA Systems

Jeffrey Burt | January 19, 2026 | AmeriCorp, Data breach, data exfiltration, Data security and privacy, Hacking, Healthcare Information Security, personal information disclosure, stolen credentials, U.S. government, U.S. Supreme Court, Veterans Administration

Nicholas Moore, a 24-year-old Tennessee man, pleaded guilty to using stolen credentials of authorized users to hack into computer systems of the Supreme Court, VA, and AmeriCorps, obtaining sensitive information and then ...

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Senate Committee Passes Securing Open Source Software Act

Sue Poremba | April 13, 2023 | Cybersecurity, executive order, open source, U.S. government

Cybersecurity is a hot topic in Washington, D.C., right now. The Biden administration has released a number of executive orders around national cybersecurity edicts, and now the Senate has proposed a rare ...

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US ‘Strike Force’ Keeps Disruptive Tech From Adversaries

Nathan Eddy | April 4, 2023 | Compliance, Cyberlaw, government, Strike Force, U.S. government

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Department of Commerce launched a “Disruptive Technology Strike Force” to investigate and prosecute criminal violations of U.S. export control laws. The aim is to ...

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Timeline: CISA and the Biden Administration’s Impact on Cybersecurity

Flashpoint Team | October 31, 2022 | APT, APTs, cisa, cyber threat intelligence, government, national security, Public Sector and Government, threat actors, Threat Intel, U.S. government, vulnerability intelligence, Vulnerability Management

The US president and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CISA, has steadily followed through with plans to implement new mandates intended, hone regulations, and improve the nation’s security posture. The post ...

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How to Comply With the US Government’s Strict Software Requirements

Curtis Kang | August 24, 2022 | cisa, CVE, CVEs, FEATURED, Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, U.S. government, Vulnerabilities, vulnerability intelligence, Vulnerability Management, Vulnerability Remediation

We break down H.R. 7900, a well-intentioned but perhaps unrealistic bill that requires companies working with the DoD to provide a software bill of materials (SBOM) and patch all known vulnerabilities. The ...

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How to Comply With the DoD’s Newer and Stricter Software Requirements

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CHIPS for America Act Brings Big Bucks to Semiconductor Industry

Christopher Burgess | August 4, 2022 | CHIPS Act, hardware, semiconductor, U.S. government

To ease the pressure of the semiconductur shortage, the U.S. Senate last week passed the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act on July 27, 2022 and the House of Representatives ...

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Why Public-Private Partnership is Key to Cybersecurity

Luke Tenery | December 8, 2021 | Cybersecurity, , Public Sector, U.S. government

The federal government is currently handicapped in a way it has not experienced before. Because the digital domain is man-made, governments around the world have different levels of access and freedom of ...

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Is Ransomware a Technology Pandemic in the Making?

Max Galka | November 23, 2021 | Health Care Security, international cybersecurity, Ransomware, U.S. government

Ten years ago, ransomware attacks were inconvenient. But today, they present an apocalyptic national security threat capable of crippling infrastructure that the population depends on. “No one country, no one group, can ...

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U.S. Government offers $5 million bounty for information on North Korean cyber criminals

Alina Bizga | April 16, 2020 | archive, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, cyber attacks, Cyber Crime, Cyber Security, Fraud, Industry News, money laundering, North Korea, U.S. government, WannaCry

Yesterday, the U.S. Departments of State, Treasury, Homeland Security, and FBI released a joint report offering guidance on the emerging North Korean (previously known as DPRK) cyber threat, and highlighting the malicious ...

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On