Cynthia Brumfield

Western intelligence and national security leaders emphasize the importance of collaborating to better prepare and respond to cybersecurity threats.

The cybersecurity grant program is designed to initiate state and local governments projects but does not provide ongoing operating funds.

The new plan aims to make the cybersecurity agency more efficient and to create a “whole of nation” approach to protecting the United States from cyberattacks.

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On February 24, 2022, on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, KA-band satellite provider Viasat became the first prominent victim of Russian cyber aggression when a wiper attack turned off tens of thousands of Viasat’s government and commercial broadband customers’ modems. At this year’s Black Hat and DEF CON conferences, Viasat representatives spelled out how the attack occurred, highlighting the incident response lessons they learned. In the Black Hat talk, Mark Colaluca, vice president…

Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Verizon Business Network Services agreed to pay $4,091,317, plus interest, to resolve False Claims Act (FCA) allegations. These allegations held that the company’s Managed Trusted Internet Protocol Service (MTIPS) provided from 2017 to 2021 to federal agencies did not meet three cybersecurity controls for trusted internet connections required for General Services Administration (GSA) contracts. Verizon undertook an internal i…

Last week, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report titled the Harmonization of Cyber Incident Reporting to the Federal Government, that lays out a working template for how the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) might implement its upcoming cyber incident reporting regulations. CISA must produce its incident report requirements under the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA). CIRCIA also required DHS to issue this re…

On August 14, 2023, bleach and cleaning product giant Clorox filed a form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission, notifying the financial regulator that it had experienced a cybersecurity incident that had disrupted the company’s business operations. A month later, the company filed another 8-K saying that the damage to its IT infrastructure from what it characterized as unauthorized activity was still wreaking havoc on its production systems, causing processing delays and an elevated…

State-backed North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated $2 billion or more in funds from cryptocurrency organizations and banks in 30 cyberattacks over the past five years, primarily to help fund its weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs. In 2023 alone, North Korean hackers have stolen $340 million in cryptocurrency assets, not including the estimated $150 million US government officials believe they stole from blockchain transaction firm Mixin in late September 2023. Bu…

As military conflicts cause devastating real-world harm in the physical realm, the governments of Ukraine and Israel are battling escalating cyber harms from nation-state and non-state threat actors. Against this backdrop, the US government is increasingly alarmed about China and its capabilities of slipping into active cyberwarfare mode. At this year’s Cyberwarcon, top government and industry experts gathered to examine the complex, multi-theater arenas in which known and emerging cyberattacks…