Monoculture risk is manageable for most systems, but that isn’t the case for government systems. For these systems, monoculture vulnerability is a national security risk. Nature, they say, abhors a vacuum. It also abhors a monoculture. That’s because…
Bloomberg Government subscribers get the stories like this first. Act now and gain unlimited access to everything you need to know. Learn more. House lawmakers are vying to reshape the Department of Homeland Security — a sprawling agency formed to…
Just days after President Biden demanded that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia shut down ransomware groups attacking American targets, the most aggressive of the groups suddenly went off-line early Tuesday. The mystery is who made it happen. The…
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. (Flickr/Prachatai, https://flic.kr/p/2jAvs2f; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) Will Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko—“Europe’s last dictator,” who ordered the…
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…
On the heels of three major cybersecurity incidents over the past six months—the SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange supply chain attacks and the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack—government officials and some in the private sector are reviving calls…
