Several industry groups sent a letter to lawmakers last week urging them to include $10 billion for cybersecurity in the next coronavirus relief bill, however congressional backers of a tech push in the relief bill say that Senate opposition makes a big push unlikely to pass.
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In addition to unsealing the charges against three North Korean hackers, the U.S. government also published indicators of compromise for a family of malicious cryptocurrency applications called "AppleJeus."
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Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) introduced and withdrew an amendment proposing a $9 billion appropriation for the
Technology Modernization Fund in the House Oversight Committee s markup of its portion of the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief and recovering legislation last Friday.
The administration s original proposal had included $9 billion for TMF, but that additional funding was cut from the package because of the objections from some in the Senate. It would have been a major lift for the revolving fund supporting IT modernization, which has been receiving annual amounts of around $25 million. Connolly s amendment would have exempted $8 billion of the new funding from TMF s payback requirements.
Several industry groups sent a letter to lawmakers last week urging them to include $10 billion for cybersecurity in the next coronavirus relief bill, however congressional backers of a tech push in the relief bill say that Senate opposition makes a big push unlikely to pass.
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Chief Data Officers Council launched a new website and published a report to Congress on CDO activities. The CDO Council was mandated by the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. With multiple winter weather events hitting in the National Capitol region this week, the Office of Personnel Managementreminded agency heads about the importance of communicating emergency situations to employees even amid the current maximum telework posture required under the COVID-19 pandemic.
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