The U.S. Senate Homeland Security Committee holds a hearing on cybersecurity risks to the health care sector at 10 a.m. ET on March 16. With testimony from Corewell Health Senior Vice President for Information Security and Chief Information Security Officer Scott Dresen; Fortified Health Security Senior Virtual Information Security Officer Kate Pierce; Healthcare and Public […]
The U.S. House Oversight and Accountability Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation subcommittee holds a hearing at 2:00 p.m. ET on March 8 on “Advances in AI: Are We Ready For a Tech Revolution?” MIT Center for Deployable Machine Learning Director Dr. Aleksander Madry, Special Competitive Studies Project Chair Dr. Eric Schmidt, and IBM Quantum […]
China-linked hackers are reportedly far more effective than its spy balloons at gathering intelligence, with a newly released report showing how Chinese operatives regularly extract information from computer networks across the globe. The 2023 Global Threat Report by leading cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike reveals that China-linked cyber-espionage groups are targeting 39 industries on nearly every continent. According to the […]
President Joe Biden has signed into law the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act, legislation to push the federal government to adopt technology designed to protect against potential data breach attempts by a future quantum computer. The Dec. 21 signing of the bipartisan measure, also called H.R. 7535, comes amid a race with China in advancing quantum computing technology and […]
NTD spoke with Rex Lee, cybersecurity adviser at My Smart Privacy, about the Twitter Files, Apple disabling AirDrop in China, and how this all exposes the bigger issue of companies cooperating with governments to censor their own consumers.
Utah and Alabama on Monday joined a growing number of Republican states in banning video-sharing app TikTok from government devices, amid concerns of threats to the states’ cybersecurity. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, issued an executive order (pdf) to prohibit TikTok use on all state-owned electronic devices. “China’s access to data collected by TikTok […]
Former DOD cybersecurity director John Mills told NTD that many U.S. law enforcement intelligence personnel don’t understand the information technology that’s used in elections. Mills questioned whether the National Guard’s cybersecurity units have adequate training to ensure secure elections, in response to a report from Politico that said the Guard would be deployed in 14 […]
Cybersecurity units from the National Guard will be activated in 14 U.S. states. The units are to help mitigate risks around the midterm elections.
Facebook parent Meta is preparing for large-scale layoffs this week. The move will likely affect thousands of employees.
The midterm elections are on Nov. 8. President Biden and former President Trump both rallied in support of party candidates over the weekend. We have highlights from the events.
For the first time, a current U.S. Federal Communications commissioner is visiting Taiwan. During meetings with Taiwanese officials this week, Brendan Carr focused on cybersecurity and telecoms, showcasing U.S. support for the island.
U.S. cybersecurity chief Jen Easterly said the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) does “not censor information,” and voters should expect “normal” errors and glitches, such as burst water pipes, during the midterm elections next week. A week out from the U.S. midterm elections, Easterly, a Biden appointee, has talked about CISA’s role in securing election infrastructure […]
