2022-07-15
Has taken years for this case - “which caused ‘catastrophic’ damage to national security” - to finally conclude with a conviction. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
A federal jury convicts Vault 7 leaker Joshua Schulte on nine counts, two years after a previous jury failed to agree on eight of the 10 charges he faced then
2021-03-07
There are plenty of smart people working in USG, industry, academia etc on cybersecurity. There is an entire cybersecurity ecosystem that's been built over many years. But we keep getting pummeled. Something about the US approach is fundamentally broken. https://krebsonsecurity.com/ ...
Krebs on Security
Sources: at least 30K US organizations have been hacked by an aggressive Chinese espionage group exploiting unpatched flaws in Microsoft's Exchange Server
At least 30,000 organizations across the United States — including a significant number of small businesses, towns …
2020-12-22
Treasury “learned of the breach not from any of the government agencies whose job is to protect against cyberattacks, but from Microsoft” according to Sen Wyden, per new @SangerNYT @arappeport - - highlighting that with each new day's reporting, more & more questions raised. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Sen. Ron Wyden says the US Treasury Department acknowledged that its email system used by senior leadership was breached by SolarWinds hackers beginning in July
a fact revealing how deeply Moscow burrowed into the Trump administration's networks. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : Breaking News: The Russian hackers who targeted U.S. ag...
2020-12-21
Ideas to separate CYBERCOM & NSA have been kicking around a good long while. It's an important policy debate. It's also lunacy to move forward on it during the presidential transition, while in the midst of responding to a major foreign adversary cyber intrusion. https://twitter.com/...
Defense One
WH officials propose ending the “dual-hat” leadership arrangement of NSA and Cyber Command, renewing debate over splitting up the agencies amid recent attacks
though “when” is a tricky question. But the idea that this is going to happen in the final 32 days of an administration, under an acting SefDef, without congressional support (and ...