Tag: US Government

CISA director Jen Easterly to depart agency on January 20

Jen Easterly, the director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will depart the government agency after more than three years...

T-Mobile hack linked to Chinese breaches of telecom networks

U.S. phone giant T-Mobile was hacked as part of a broad cyberattack on U.S. and international phone and internet companies in recent months,...

What a second Trump term means for the future of ransomware

The U.S. government has made big strides over the past four years in the ongoing fight against the “scourge of ransomware,” as President...

Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers’ cloud products

Microsoft has notified its customers that it wasn’t consistently storing security logs for its cloud products during a two-week window in September, leaving...

The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite

News broke this weekend that China-backed hackers have compromised the wiretap systems of several U.S. telecom and internet providers, likely in an effort...

US charges five Russian military hackers with targeting Ukraine’s government with destructive malware

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice accused five members of Russia’s military intelligence agency of hacking several Ukrainian government agencies, an unnamed...