For the second time in as many months, a major link in the U.S. supply chain has been hampered due to hackers launching a ransomware attack. This week, a global meat supplier was hit. Last month, a main East Coast pipeline was shut down for days,…
“Representative Lieu’s bill on vulnerability disclosure programs for contractors is a commonsense expansion of an important concept that is already used inside the government. It is the first, significant step in an important discussion whose…
“It boggles my mind that 15 years into this cybersecurity crisis, we still don’t have an operating picture of how frequently and what sorts of what breaches occur in the United States,” he told attendees to the virtual session . “Without a…
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles) introduced the Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act, legislation that would amend the federal contracts title to require vendors that wish to do business with the United States Government…
Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., will announce Tuesday a bill that would require all federal contractors to have a vulnerability disclosure program. The Improving Contractor Cybersecurity Act draws inspiration from the Department of Homeland Security’s…
On May 7, the ransomware gang DarkSide locked up the information technology (IT) systems of Colonial Pipeline, the energy distributor responsible for shipping nearly half of the East Coast’s gas and jet fuel. Unable to confirm whether the industrial…
