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

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

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

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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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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 budget. “The budget bolsters our cybersecurity and strengthens our military by ensuring we have the resources necessary to sustain deterrence and backstop our..

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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) has on civilian agencies—is either an example of the administration delivering on its promise to bolster cybersecurity or an example of it being..

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DarkSide, hackers of the Colonial Pipeline, has hurriedly shut up shop. It claims that its servers and cryptocurrency balances have disappeared.

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