The Biden administration issued an executive order to outlaw the federal government's use of commercial foreign spyware--with some caveats.
The CISA pilot program will notify organisations of vulnerabilities that can lead to ransomware attacks, with small organisations the primary beneficiaries.
Ransomware gangs like Vice Society target colleges and universities like every other sector, but they try hard to keep that information quiet.
President Biden's FY2024 budget increases CISA's budget to over $3 billion and boosting spending on several cyber initiatives.
The Biden administration's National Cybersecurity Strategy calls for more regulation on critical infrastructure providers and holds software providers accountable for their insecure products.
The Bipartisan Policy Center's report on the top eight macro cybersecurity risks highlights how little progress organisations have made in dealing with them.
Nations around the world are hammering out a new cyber crime convention, but some UN members seek to criminalise activities that are not bona fide crimes.
An apparent data breach potentially impacting hundreds of millions of users could damage Twitter's finances and operations. EU regulators pose the biggest threat to the Elon Musk-owned company.
The San Francisco Police Department wants to use weaponised robots, but some experts say robots suffer from severe security flaws that render them too dangerous for such use.
Meta researchers say their Online Operations Kill Chain framework offers a common taxonomy to understand the threat landscape and spot vulnerabilities.
Representatives from 36 countries and the EU agree that combatting ransomware requires international collaboration but legal systems need to catch up.
The cost is too high and the risk too low to offer CISOs directors-and-officers insurance at many companies. Protective governance policies might make more sense.
Western intelligence and national security leaders emphasise the importance of collaborating to better prepare and respond to cyber security threats.
The CSRB report predicts the Log4J risk will continue for years and offers best practices for mitigating the threat.
Russia will use what it learned from its destructive cyber actions in Ukraine for other operations. "There is no going back to normal."
