DHS plans to embed AI in its operations and use large language models to comb through massive amounts of data to investigate child sex traffickers and drug smugglers. While pledging to use AI responsibly, DHS plans to move quickly and target other areas such as immigration and disaster services.
The Department of Defense has announced its inaugural Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer Craig Martell is stepping down from his role after establishing the office as a small but influential team within the department over the last two years.
Experts told ISMG a final version of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's self-attestation form for federal software providers takes bold steps to ensure new technologies are made with "secure by design" principles but lacks critical components that should come in future versions.
The Biden administration doesn't propose huge leaps in cybersecurity funding in an annual spending blueprint unveiled Monday afternoon. U.S. federal civilian cybersecurity spending would amount to $13 billion, while the military would spend $14.5 billion.
The National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee is recommending the administration work to establish financial incentives, such as tax deductions and federal grants, for critical infrastructure owners and operators that implement enhanced cybersecurity standards.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency hopes to expand voluntary information sharing between the federal government and open-source software operators with a series of actions the agency announced following a two-day open-source security summit held at its Virginia headquarters.
The Office of the National Cyber Director says a second iteration of the implementation plan for the national cybersecurity strategy is on its way, just as experts tell ISMG under-resourced federal agencies and critical infrastructure entities are struggling to achieve the strategy's framework.
South Korean intelligence service officials have blamed North Korean hackers for targeting the country's semiconductor manufacturing companies. Hackers who gain access to chip-making technology and product designs could hurt South Korea’s leadership in the semiconductor industry.
The European Parliament and the council of direct European national governments reached a political agreement Tuesday on a proposal that seeks to improve trading bloc cybersecurity. The Cyber Solidary Act will create a "cybersecurity shield" consisting of cross-border security operations centers.
German police say they arrested operators behind one of the largest cybercrime underground marketplaces in the country and seized its domains as part of a two-year-long investigation into the group. Police arrested three suspected operators of the platform, including the alleged site admin.
Privacy groups are urging European lawmakers finalizing the global treaty on artificial intelligence to tighten rules surrounding the use of AI by the private sector and states. Lawmakers and other country representatives are set to meet for final negotiations on the treaty on March 11.
A new report from the Office of the National Cyber Director calls for the universal adoption of memory-safe programming languages, but experts warned ISMG the process of overhauling legacy information technology and high-impact code can be daunting, costly and risky.
Officials from the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command told lawmakers Thursday the military branch is building out deployable teams of cybersecurity protection units and taking advantage of expanded authorities under a recent executive order to better protect Americas modern maritime infrastructure.
BlackCat claimed on its dark web site that it is behind the biggest healthcare hack so far the year - exfiltrating 6 terabytes of "highly selective data" relating to "all" Change Healthcare clients, including Tricare, Medicare, CVS Caremark, MetLife and more.
Microsoft once again finds itself in the crosshairs of antitrust regulators, this time for practices around its Entra ID identity management tool. The European Commission is probing whether Microsoft prevents customers from buying security software that competes with its own, The Information said.
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