Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced intense questions from the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee. She wants to slash almost $500 million from the CISA budget. While the appropriations committee was looking at DHS’s funding across all of its agencies, they made a point of demanding more info on the administration’s financial plans for CISA. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, I am not sure that anyone in DC is actually fiddling, but they certainly are not doing much to solve the problem. A panel of policymakers at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week were very clear on the threat. Salt Typhoon, a China-backed threat group, is particularly scary, having demonstrated uncanny skill in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Conceptually, that is hard to argue with. But, as businesses of all sizes and government agencies at all levels are being hacked daily, is the ‘less is more’ philosophy correct. One thing she went after is CISA’s work on misinformation and disinformation. This is a frequent complaint of some right wingers and to some extent, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump Threatens Zuckerberg With Life in Prison Trump said he is watching Zuckerberg and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison. If I remember right, isn’t Trump the person who is railing about the administration weaponizing the Justice Department against political enemies. This sounds like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. OCC, FRB and FDIC Propose New Rule – Tell Us If You Have a Security Incident The federal banking regulators are proposing a new rule that banks and tech companies that service banks need to report to their regulator within 36 hours if the have […]
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