Martin Matishak

An expired 2015 law that gives companies liability protection when they share cyberthreat information with the federal government would be renewed through January 30 under Senate legislation to end the government shutdown.

The latest model for improving U.S. Cyber Command is circulating at the Pentagon. Some of the initiatives will spill into the next decade — an approach that is sure to create friction on Capitol Hill and beyond.

In a report shared with Recorded Future News, Unit 42 attributed the targeting of Cisco ASA devices to Storm-1849 — a China-based threat group that Cisco previously said has been attacking the tools since 2024.

Officers from the Army and Air Force are under consideration to lead the NSA, and moves could be happening soon for other top jobs at the spy agency, sources tell Recorded Future News.

Army Lt. Gen. William Hartman, the acting leader of U.S. Cyber Command and the NSA, will not be nominated to take the job permanently, sources told Recorded Future News.

Congress is unlikely to move this week to renew two key cybersecurity efforts that were expected to hitch a ride on legislation to keep the government running.

Senate Intelligence Chairman Tom Cotton wants to put off debate over rewriting a controversial spy program until 2027, sources say, keeping it out of midterm election season while giving a special panel time to make recommendations.

Katherine Sutton most recently served as the chief technology adviser to the commander and director of Pentagon operations at U.S. Cyber Command.

The measure from the House Appropriations Committee would extend the life of the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA 2015) and the State and Local Cybersecurity Grant Program — both of which are slated to expire September 30 — until November 21.

The official's call for a renewal came less than three weeks before the 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA 2015), which provides incentives for private entities to voluntarily share digital threat intelligence with the federal government, is due to sunset.

The policy roadmap’s digital security text is tame in comparison to the last two years, when the idea of studying a U.S. Cyber Force dominated the debate.

Sources tell Recorded Future News that top Trump administration officials have accepted that splitting up the leadership of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency would prove too lengthy and arduous amid other national security priorities.

New cyber director Cairncross calls on industry to help put 'America First' in cyberspace

Ten-year extensions of a threat information sharing law and a cybersecurity grant program for states and localities won bipartisan approval in the House Homeland Security Committee.

The Commission on Cyber Force Generation will develop potential routes Congress and the White House could follow in creating a separate cyber service and aim to deliver them in time for next year’s must-pass national defense authorization act.

The Chinese government could use its information-sharing laws to force the Huawei to assist Beijing’s vast intelligence apparatus, Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Rick Crawford, both Republicans from Arkansas, wrote.

The measure aims to prevent compromise of U.S. telecommunications through strengthening network security by establishing “baseline cybersecurity requirements for vendors of telecommunications services” to the country’s 18 intelligence agencies, according to a summary of the bill released by the panel.

The agencies said U.S. critical infrastructure entities should be on high alert for "Iranian-affiliated cyber actors" trying to target American networks.

The new executive director of U.S. Cyber Command — the No. 3 position at the digital warfighting organization — is NSA veteran Patrick Ware.

Republican Rep. Don Bacon said that a pause in U.S. offensive cyber operations against Russia earlier this year lasted only one day as part of the Trump administration's negotiations with the Kremlin on ending the war in Ukraine.