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Biden Admin. Adds ‘Mercenary Spyware’ Firms to Ban List

Richi Jennings | July 19, 2023 | android spyware, Biden administration, Commerce Department, Cytrox, Department of Commerce, Entity List, eu, Europe, European Union, European Union (EU), Intellexa, iOS spyware, Malware Spyware, Predator spyware, SB Blogwatch, spyware

European cousins Intellexa and Cytrox essentially banned by Commerce Dept. — Predator/ALIEN not welcome in U.S ...

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White House to Regulate Cloud Security: Good Luck With That

Richi Jennings | March 13, 2023 | Biden administration, Biden National Cybersecurity Strategy, Cloud Security, cybersecurity regulation, regulation, SB Blogwatch, White House

Be careful what you wish for: Biden wants new regulations for cloud providers—but we’re not sure it’ll help ...

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Ban TikTok, say FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, GOP, DNC, POTUS (but not ACLU)

Richi Jennings | March 9, 2023 | ACLU, Biden administration, Bytedance, CIA, DATA Act, DNI, FBI, FBI Director Christopher Wray, nsa, RESTRICT Act, SB Blogwatch, senate hearing, TikTok, US Senate, White House

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. RESTRICT: The White House and both sides of the Senate agree that TikTok needs to be stopped—or at least RESTRICT’ed. A bipartisan bill seeks to make that happen ...

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‘Finish Him!’ US Kills Huawei With Final Tech Ban

Richi Jennings | February 1, 2023 | Biden administration, CCP, china, chinese government, exports, Huawei, SB Blogwatch

U.S. cuts off Huawei’s last sources of technology. Export licenses for chips and other tech components are finished ...

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FBI/CISA Failed: Biden’s Ransomware Summit Convenes, Impotently

Richi Jennings | November 1, 2022 | Biden administration, Biden cybersecurity summit, President Biden, Ransomware, SB Blogwatch, the Russians will be selling USB wristbands outside the summit, White House

The International Counter Ransomware Summit is on in D.C., with 36 nations and blocs. But will it amount to anything of substance? ...

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US Gov’t Flip-Flops on NSO Group Sale to L3Harris

Richi Jennings | July 11, 2022 | Biden administration, CIA, Department of Commerce, FBI, five eyes, L3Harris, NSO, NSO Group, Pegasus, SB Blogwatch, So when is Elon Musk going to make them an offer?, White House

NSO Group, notorious makers of the notorious Pegasus spyware, has been in acquisition talks with huge defense contractor L3Harris ...

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Biden Revs Up US Quantum Plans (Because China)

Richi Jennings | May 6, 2022 | Biden administration, china, cryptanalytically relevant quantum computer, National Quantum Initiative Advisory Committee, post quantum, President Biden, quantum computing, quantum information science, SB Blogwatch, The white house might as well prioritize research into unicorns

This week, the White House issued a memorandum and executive order that put a shedload of wood behind the quantum-computing arrow ...

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Biden Administration Seeks 2023 Cybersecurity Spend Increase

George V. Hulme | March 30, 2022 | Biden administration, cisa, Cybersecurity, executive order cybersecurity

The just-released White House fiscal year 2023 federal budget proposes nearly $11 billion in cybersecurity spending for agencies not directly in defense. The request is an 11% increase from the fiscal 2022 ...

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Biden Signs Authority for NSS to NSA: Think CISA for Military, Intel Systems

Teri Robinson | January 21, 2022 | Biden administration, executive order improving critical infrastructure cybersecurity, national security, nsa, NSS

Depending on how you look at it, President Biden’s Wednesday memorandum—which gave the NSA the type of authority over agencies operating national security systems that the Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) ...

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