By Justin Katz
Top officials at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday told House lawmakers no federal agencies are known to be compromised by vulnerabilities found in Microsoft Exchange, but warned it is an evolving campaign with new information coming in by the hour. The vast majority of Microsoft Exchange servers have been mitigated across the federal civilian executive branch. We are working with individual agencies to assess their results of their forensic analysis, Eric Goldstein, the executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA told a House Appropriations subcommittee. At this point in time, there are no federal civilian agencies that are confirmed to be compromised by this campaign.
By Justin Katz
Federal agencies still reeling from the effects of a massive hack involving SolarWinds may face a new challenge of evicting any adversaries that breached their networks through recently discovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft s Exchange software. Patching and mitigation is not remediation if the servers have already been compromised, the National Security Council said in a tweet on Friday. It is essential that any organization with a vulnerable server take immediate measures to determine if they were already targeted.
President Joe Biden s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan also took to Twitter to urge U.S. think tanks and defense industrial base contractors to patch ASAP.
By Adam Mazmanian, Justin Katz
Mar 08, 2021
The Technology Modernization is poised to receive one heck of a present for its three-year anniversary – a $1 billion funding injection from Congress that would dramatically its capitalization.
The TMF was founded by the Modernizing Government Technology Act and launched with $100 million. The fund has received three $25 million appropriations but overall has remained small – especially considering lawmakers initially sought to fund it with $3 billion.
The House of Representatives included $9 billion for TMF in its initial version of the bill, but that provision was scrubbed after objections from many in the Senate. However, TMF backers in the Senate managed to include $1 billion their version of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act. The bill also contains other tech funding, including $200 million for the U.S. Digital Service and $650 million for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency for risk mitigation on
Quick Hits The congressionally chartered
National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence submitted its final report on March 1. In the introduction, chairman
Eric Schmidt and vice chairman
Robert Work caution about the rise of lethal AI among U.S. adversaries and argues that we will not be able to defend against AI-enabled threats without ubiquitous AI capabilities and new warfighting paradigms. The
General Services Administrationannounced a share of a Bitcoin will be part of an upcoming auction. The sale marks the first time GSA counted a cryptocurrency product among its auction items.
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A Senate amendment to the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Act extends pandemic relief authorities to government contractors for paid leave through the end of the fiscal year.