Month: September 2026

DHS Compresses $626M Network and Cyber Consolidation Into a Seven-Week Competition

By Trenton Abrego | In Industry News | September 23, 2026

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.… [Read more.]

FBI-Japan Advisory Says North Korea’s Contagious Interview Hackers Infected 30,000 Devices

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity | September 22, 2026

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… [Read more.]

Record Patch Load Puts CISA’s New BOD 26-04 Under Pressure

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity | September 21, 2026

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… [Read more.]

SAFER SKIES Comment Period Closes as Agencies Build State and Local Counter-Drone Certification Pipeline

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Transportation | September 18, 2026

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… [Read more.]

CISA Issues First Dedicated Guidance on Cyber Decoys as Defenders Confront Living-off-the-Land Intrusions

By Christopher Prawdzik | In Cybersecurity | September 18, 2026

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… [Read more.]

Quarter-Century in Review: The Evolution of Asymmetric Threats and the Future of Homeland Security

By Dean C. Alexander | In Terrorism, Top411 | September 14, 2026

WASHINGTON — Twenty-five years following the cataclysmic attacks of September 11, 2001, the foundational doctrines of American homeland security have fundamentally transformed from physical counter-terrorism into multi-domain resilience ... [Read more.]