Cybersecurity

Sen. Ron Johnson: Federal Government Needs to Partner With Private Sector for Cybersecurity

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said on Tuesday that the federal government should work with the private sector to improve cybersecurity. “What I’ve always believed is if you’re really looking for cybersecurity, we have to look to the private sector because the private sector is always going …

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Companies may face 2% fine for breaching EU cybersecurity rules | One America News Network

December 16, 2020 By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Large energy, transport and financial companies as well as digital providers and makers of medical and computer devices could be fined up to 2% of their global turnover for breaching EU cybersecurity rules under a European Commission proposal. Concerns about the cybersecurity of key assets …

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Fired Cybersecurity Chief Sues Trump Campaign, Lawyer Over Threats

The cybersecurity expert who was fired by President Donald Trump last month filed a lawsuit on Dec. 8 against the Trump campaign and one of the president’s lawyers who made incendiary remarks about him. Christopher Krebs directed the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) until Nov. 17, when Trump fired …

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U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye discloses breach, theft of hacking tools

December 9, 2020 By Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn (Reuters) -FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had been hacked, likely by a government, and that an arsenal of hacking tools used to test the defenses of its clients had been stolen. The hack of FireEye, …

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Trump Campaign Lawyer Makes Incendiary Remarks About Former Cybersecurity Chief

A lawyer for President Donald Trump’s campaign on Monday made incendiary remarks about a former government employee. Christopher Krebs directed the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency until Nov. 17, when Trump fired him. The firing came shortly after Krebs and others released a joint statement calling the election “the most secure in …

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