Matthew LaGarde writes: The US Department of Defense’s implementation of a new cybersecurity framework, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 or CMMC, will require more than 300,000 military contracting companies to improve their cybersecurity protections. These safeguards are critically important, but it appears that more than half of military contractors are unprepared to meet these new requirements…
Category: Government Sector
The Congressional Budget Office was hacked. It says it has implemented new security measures.
Fatima Hussein reports: The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday confirmed it had been hacked, potentially disclosing important government data to malicious actors. The small government office, with some 275 employees, provides objective, impartial analysis to support lawmakers during the budget process. It is required to produce a cost estimate for nearly every bill approved by…
Nevada Refused to Pay Cyberattack Ransom as Systems Sat Compromised for Months
Mark Pearson reports: According to an official document newly released by the Nevada office responsible for the state’s technology infrastructure, Nevada’s state systems sat unknowingly compromised for three months before officials noticed a major ransomware attack and flagged it up in August. […] The perpetrators compromised a password vault server to harvest credentials from 26…
Hackers defraud multiple lawmakers, a Pakistan Senate committee told
MM News reports: In a shocking revelation, the Senate Standing Committee on Interior was told that hackers have defrauded several members of Parliament of hundreds of thousands of rupees through online scams. During the committee meeting, chaired by Senator Faisal Saleem, it was disclosed that hackers managed to deceive various parliamentarians, extracting large sums of…
Something Old and Something New: The False Claims Act and Cybersecurity
Elizabeth F. Greene and Kristen Dupard pf Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP write: The Department of Justice (DOJ) recently obtained several cybersecurity-related False Claims Act (FCA) settlements totaling more than $50 million dollars. Collectively, these settlements reflect a clear message: Cybersecurity is an enforcement priority for the second Trump administration, and any organization that contracts…
Phone location data of top EU officials for sale, report finds
Zack Whittaker reports: Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in the world. EU officials said they’re “concerned” about the trade of citizen and officials’ mobile phone location…