01 April 2021

60-Day Sprints for Cyber Security??

How bad can "Home Land Security" be??

DHS chief Mayorkas outlines cybersecurity plan after hack attacks

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday warned that "cyberthreats are coming dangerously close to threatening our lives" as he announced a series of "sprints" designed to counter online attacks.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in Philadelphia earlier this month. Photo: Mark Makela/Getty Images

 

Why it matters: "Our government got hacked last year and we didn’t know about it for months," Mayorkas said. It wasn't until cybersecurity firm SolarWinds "got hacked itself and alerted the government" when federal officials learned the extent of the problem, he noted.

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What to watch: Other agency sprints will center on strengthening the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the cyber workforce, and bolstering the security of industrial control systems.
The Biden administration is working on an executive order to bolster federal cybersecurity following the hacking of SolarWinds and the Microsoft Exchange Server — which was targeted by a cyber espionage unit backed by the Chinese government, it emerged earlier this month.

 

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08 March 2017 >

O Shit! ....Lots of Leaks, Spills + Now A Stinky Huge Data Dump

One of your MesaZona blogger's most reliable and trusted news sources, Wired.com came out with this 'bomb' today:
HOW THE CIA'S HACKING HOARD MAKES EVERYONE LESS SECURE
WikiLeaks, already in headline news for a long time, dumped its 8,000+ document  zero-day stash one day ago then, strongly suggests that the CIA—along with other intelligence agencies—has long allowed Americans to remain vulnerable to those same attacks. Now that those hacking secrets are public, potentially along with enough details to replicate them, the danger of the feds leaving major security flaws unfixed only escalates. . .
Balancing the needs of a critical intelligence agency with the digital security of the rest of the world isn’t easy. But the US intelligence community’s hacking techniques leaking—not once, but at least twice now after hackers known as the Shadow Brokers breached an NSA server and published reams of NSA code last August—means that the balance needs to be reconsidered, says New American Foundation’s Bankston. “All of of these vulnerabilities were in iPhones and Android phones that hundreds of millions of people used if not billions,” he says. “That has serious cybersecurity implications.”
Do we the people get this or approved it?
SPOONS GONE WILD
“The deal we make in a democracy is that we understand we need military and intelligence services. But we want want oversight in the executive branch and across the three branches of government,” . . “If the CIA says ‘we’re suppose to do this, but we’re just not going to,’ or ‘we’re going to do it just enough that the White House thinks we are,’ that starts to eat away at the fundamental oversight for which we have elected officials.”

End of Countries Blaming Each Other of Cyber Espionage?

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First reported by Reuters
US CyberSpy vs CyberSpy Incompetence
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December 2020

U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye discloses breach, theft of internal hacking tools

FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that is has been hacked, possibly by a government, leading to the theft of an arsenal of internal hacking tools typically reserved to privately test the cyber defenses of their own clients
Montana Roué: What me... worry?

The hack of FireEye, a company with an array of business contracts across the national security space both in the United States and its allies, is among the most significant breaches in recent memory.
The FireEye breach was disclosed in a blog post authored by CEO Kevin Mandia. The post said "red team tools" were stolen as part of a highly sophisticated, likely "nation-state" hacking operation. It is not clear exactly when the hack initially took place. . .

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