WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security has set a seven-week schedule to award a $626 million contract that would consolidate network, cloud and cybersecurity operations across the entire department under a single vendor. The final solicitation is due Oct. 1, and DHS anticipates an… [Read more.]
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FBI-Japan Advisory Says North Korea’s Contagious Interview Hackers Infected 30,000 Devices
North Korean hackers posing as recruiters infected at least 30,000 computers in more than 100 countries over eight months, according to a joint advisory from law enforcement and intelligence agencies in the United States, Japan, Australia and Germany. The operators lured software developers into fake… [Read more.]
Record Patch Load Puts CISA’s New BOD 26-04 Under Pressure
WASHINGTON — The remediation window for three actively exploited Linux kernel vulnerabilities closes today for federal civilian agencies. It is one of the most demanding deadlines yet under the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) new risk-based patching directive, and it arrives less than two… [Read more.]
SAFER SKIES Comment Period Closes as Agencies Build State and Local Counter-Drone Certification Pipeline
WASHINGTON — The public comment window on the interim final rules implementing the SAFER SKIES Act closed September 4, moving the most significant expansion of domestic drone mitigation authority since 2018 out of the drafting stage and into an implementation problem measured in training slots,… [Read more.]
CISA Issues First Dedicated Guidance on Cyber Decoys as Defenders Confront Living-off-the-Land Intrusions
WASHINGTON — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published its first guidance document devoted specifically to defensive cyber deception, urging critical infrastructure owners and operators to seed their networks with realistic decoy systems and data as a counter to adversaries who no longer need… [Read more.]
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Decades in Perspective: Asymmetric Threats and Diplomatic Extraction Lessons
Four decades following the watershed seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, counter-terrorism strategists, special operations planners, and diplomatic security directors continue to dissect the operational lessons tha... [Read more.]
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A New, Broader Understanding of the Nature of War
Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is the continuation of politics by other means. In the modern era of hybrid warfare and gray-zone confrontation, that aphorism must be inverted:… [Read more.]
