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Security News Bites for June 20, 2025

Car Production in US Could Shut Down in Weeks Due to China Rare Earth Magnet Ban The president says he has worked this out with China – we will see how much of a squeeze China wants to put him in. Xi, as a master deal maker, could choose to squeeze the hell out of […]

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ATTENTION GOVERNMENT CONTRACTORS!

For those of you who contract to the DoD or Department of Education – or are a vendor to those who are, this will apply to you sooner; for other executive branch agencies, it will take a little longer. The section of Title 32, the part of the Code of Federal Regulations that the DoD […]

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Defense Contractor Breach and National Security

The Department of Defense has been trying for ten years now to shore up the security of defense contractors but still has not gotten new regulations passed. Here is one example of why they are needed. Desparately. The breach against defense contractor Acuity, Inc. happened last month. The data was being sold for only $3,000 […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending April 5, 2024

DoD Opens Cyber Policy Office As reported earlier, the planned opening of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy officially happened on March 20th. Ashley Manning will manage it until the Senate confirms someone else. President Biden announced that his nominee will be Michael Sulmeyer. Whether the Senate confirms him or […]

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DoD Just “Upped” The Cybersecurity Game for Defense Contractors

If you are a defense contractor – prime, sub or vendor to one of these and you were hoping that CMMC was going to go away, I don’t think that is going to happen – at least not on this president’s watch. Even if the party in power changes in January, I don’t much will […]

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