The company has not seen enough evidence to positively trace the hackers behind the ongoing SolarWinds Orion hack to Russian entities, a FireEye executive said.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned of attacks that leverage phishing and email forwarding vulnerabilities as well as one that bypassed multifactor authentication.
By Defense Systems Staff
Jan 20, 2021
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency wants a geolocation dataset of U.S. businesses operating in sectors considered essential to U.S. homeland security.
According to a Jan. 7 request for information, NGA said it’s looking for sources of commercial geospatial databases that could be integrated into the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) to inform senior leaders protecting the nation’s infrastructure. The data would support “operational, situational and strategic awareness” and facilitate crisis response, preparedness planning and infrastructure protection, the statement of work said.
The requested dataset would contain registered business records of companies operating in 17 sectors across all 50 states, territories and commonwealths. The data, NGA said, “shall provide accurate locational data, and proper categorization of feature types in order to correctly identify, aid, and expedite response/recovery effo
By Justin Katz
Jan 13, 2021
A top counterintelligence official today said the number of federal agencies affected by the SolarWinds Orion breach will likely grow higher than an initial estimate announced by a White House task force last week.
The White House task force organizing the response to the attack said last week that fewer than 10 federal agencies were affected.
William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said today during a Washington Post event both the number of known public and private sector organizations affected by the SolarWinds hack will likely rise as investigators continue to manage the fallout.
The Pentagon eliminated a class deviation that implemented the president s executive order purging diversity training across federal grants and contracts.