Acting Director Madhu Gottumukkala said it could affect everything from responding to threats to finalizing CIRCIA regulations.
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GOP Congress moves to shape election law in Trump’s image
Republicans in Congress are moving ahead with two pieces of legislation this week that would dramatically reshape the nation’s election laws. Together, the SAVE America Act and MEGA Act would shift key voter certification powers to the executive branch, require stricter proof of citizenship for voter registration, and allow states to more easily access federal…
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Watchdog group sues for TSA data sharing agreement with ICE
A nonprofit is suing the federal government for records surrounding a data sharing agreement between the Transportation Security Administration and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement that saw domestic travel data used for immigration enforcement. Government watchdog group American Oversight filed suit against the agencies Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a…
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Sean Plankey re-nominated to lead CISA
President Donald Trump re-nominated Sean Plankey to lead the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday, after Plankey’s bid for the position ended last year stuck in the Senate. It’s not clear whether or how Plankey’s resubmitted nomination will overcome the hurdles that left many observers convinced his chance of becoming CISA director had likely…
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Dems pressure Google, Apple to drop X app as international regulators turn up heat
A trio of Senate Democrats are calling on Apple and Google to drop Elon Musk’s X from app stores as international regulators in Europe and Britain took steps towards investigations of the site’s mass undressing of users using Grok’s AI tool. On Friday, Senators Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., and Ed Markey, D-Mass.,…
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U.S. Sentencing Commission seeks input on criminal penalties for deepfakes
The U.S. Sentencing Commission is issuing preliminary sentencing guidelines for criminal offenses under the Take It Down Act, a law passed earlier this year to curb the spread of nonconsensual deepfake pornography. The Take It Down Act marks one of the first major pieces of legislation passed by Congress to address AI-generated deepfakes, attracting broad…
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Defense bill addresses secure phones, AI training, cyber troop mental health
The Defense Department would require that senior leaders have secure mobile phones, that personnel would get cybersecurity training that includes a focus on artificial intelligence and that cyber troops would have access to mental health services under a compromise annual defense policy bill released over the weekend. The deal between House and Senate negotiators on…
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The Congressional remedy for Salt Typhoon? More information sharing with industry
When news broke approximately a year ago that Chinese hackers had systemically penetrated at least nine major U.S. communications networks, the level of alarm from policymakers was clear. At a hearing held Tuesday by the Senate Committee on Commerce, experts offered differing assessments of the threat. While intelligence officials have characterized the Salt Typhoon operation’s…
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New legislation targets scammers that use AI to deceive
A new bipartisan bill introduced in the House would increase the criminal penalties for committing fraud and impersonation with the assistance of AI tools. The AI Fraud Deterrence Act, introduced by Reps. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Neal Dunn, R-Md., would raise the overall ceiling for criminal fines and prison time for fraudsters who use AI…
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Information sharing law’s expiration could squander government vulnerability hunting efforts, senator says
Letting a cyber threat data sharing law expire could waste government efforts to find vulnerabilities, since companies would no longer be able to discuss these issues without fear of legal repercussions, a top senator said Tuesday. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., made his remarks less than a week after the hotly contested legislation to end a…
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Cyber information sharing law would get extension under shutdown deal bill
Legislation to end the federal government shutdown includes a provision that would extend an expired cybersecurity information sharing law through the end of January. Extension of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 is something industry groups have coveted since even before its sunset at the end of September. Previous attempts to extend it fell…
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Report: Government data mining has gone too far – and AI will make it worse
Federal agencies often collect voluminous amounts of data on Americans to fulfill their missions and better understand the public’s needs. But a new whitepaper from the Electronic Privacy Information Center argues that increasingly sophisticated and invasive data mining is now widespread throughout government, allowing machines — and not humans — to determine how data is connected…
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Agency that provides budget data to Congress hit with security incident
A federal agency that supplies budget and economic information to Congress has suffered a cybersecurity incident, reportedly at the hands of a suspected foreign party. A spokesperson for the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) acknowledged the incident Thursday after The Washington Post reported that the office was hacked, with the attackers potentially accessing communications between lawmakers…
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Robocalling task force bill advances in Senate
The federal government is shut down and the House remains out of session, but work in the Senate continues, as a bipartisan bill designed to crack down on overseas robocalls advanced through a key committee Tuesday. The Foreign Robocall Elimination Act, sponsored by Sens. Ted Budd, R-N.C., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., would create a new…
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Dems introduce bill to halt mass voter roll purges
The Trump administration wants your voter data. Since President Donald Trump took office in January, the Department of Justice has made an ambitious effort to collect sensitive voter data from all 50 states, including information that one election expert described as “the holy trinity” of identity theft: Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and dates…
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Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
A top Senate Democrat introduced legislation Thursday to extend and rename an expired information-sharing law, and make it retroactive to cover the lapse that began Oct. 1. Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Protecting America from Cyber Threats (PACT) Act, to replace the expired…
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Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
A top Senate Democrat introduced legislation Thursday to extend and rename an expired information-sharing law, and make it retroactive to cover the lapse that began Oct. 1. Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Protecting America from Cyber Threats (PACT) Act, to replace the expired…
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Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
A top Senate Democrat introduced legislation Thursday to extend and rename an expired information-sharing law, and make it retroactive to cover the lapse that began Oct. 1. Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Protecting America from Cyber Threats (PACT) Act, to replace the expired…
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Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
A top Senate Democrat introduced legislation Thursday to extend and rename an expired information-sharing law, and make it retroactive to cover the lapse that began Oct. 1. Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Protecting America from Cyber Threats (PACT) Act, to replace the expired…
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Sen. Peters tries another approach to extend expired cyber threat information-sharing law
A top Senate Democrat introduced legislation Thursday to extend and rename an expired information-sharing law, and make it retroactive to cover the lapse that began Oct. 1. Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced the Protecting America from Cyber Threats (PACT) Act, to replace the expired…
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Senate Democrats call Trump admin’s focus on state voter rolls a pretext for disenfranchisement
As the Trump administration has sought to muscle through changes to election laws and rules across the country, Democrats in Congress have steadily escalated their concerns about the potential for disenfranchisement. At a public forum Wednesday held by Democratic lawmakers focused on elections and voter suppression, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., ranking member on the Senate…
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Senate Democrats seek answers on Trump overhaul of immigrant database to find noncitizen voters
As the Department of Homeland Security seeks to transform a federal database for immigrant benefits into a supercharged database to search for noncitizen voters, a trio of Democratic senators are pressing the department for more information. Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on…
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Waltz brushes off SignalGate questions, points finger at CISA
Former White House national security adviser Mike Waltz brushed aside criticisms Tuesday that he put sensitive military operations at risk by holding discussions about military strikes in a Signal group chat, claiming the app’s use was authorized by the federal government’s top civilian cyber agency. In a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Waltz — who…
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Trump bill will have major impact on health care cybersecurity, experts warn Congress
At the outset of a Senate hearing Wednesday on cybersecurity in the health care sector, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., took a moment to implore lawmakers and witnesses to stay focused on the topic at hand — and not veer off into discussions about the impact of cuts to the sector from Republicans’ One Big Beautiful…
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Rep. Garbarino: Ending CISA mobile app security program for feds sends ‘wrong signal’
The chairman of the House Homeland Security subcommittee on cybersecurity is apprehensive about the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to end a program that vets mobile apps for federal agencies. Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-N.Y., sent a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday saying that especially in light of the massive Salt Typhoon telecommunications…
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Trump budget proposal would slash more than 1,000 CISA jobs
The fiscal 2026 budget proposal President Donald Trump unveiled last week would make deep cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency workforce, with a goal of eliminating 1,083 positions and chopping its budget by $495 million, to $2.4 billion. That’s a slightly deeper total cut than an earlier budget outline forecast. And a new…
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Trump budget proposal would slash more than 1,000 CISA jobs
The fiscal 2026 budget proposal President Donald Trump unveiled last week would make deep cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency workforce, with a goal of eliminating 1,083 positions and chopping its budget by $495 million, to $2.4 billion. That’s a slightly deeper total cut than an earlier budget outline forecast. And a new…
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Trump budget proposal would slash more than 1,000 CISA jobs
The fiscal 2026 budget proposal President Donald Trump unveiled last week would make deep cuts to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency workforce, with a goal of eliminating 1,083 positions and chopping its budget by $495 million, to $2.4 billion. That’s a slightly deeper total cut than an earlier budget outline forecast. And a new…
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Senators revive bill to harmonize conflicting cybersecurity regulations
A bipartisan Senate duo is reintroducing legislation Thursday that would establish an executive branch panel to align conflicting cybersecurity regulations on the private sector. Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is bringing back the Streamlining Federal Cybersecurity Regulations Act with co-sponsor James Lankford, R-Okla. “By reducing…
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FTC wants a new, segregated software system to police deepfake porn
The head of the Federal Trade Commission described to lawmakers Thursday new technology, personnel and infrastructure the agency needs as it prepares to implement and enforce the Take It Down Act, placing the FTC’s enforcement wing at the forefront of the fight against nonconsensual deepfake pornography. The FTC’s proposed budget holds funding at $425.7 million,…
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The Kids Online Safety Act is back, with the potential to change the internet
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has been reintroduced into Congress. If passed into law, this bill could impose some of the most significant legislative changes that the internet has seen in the U.S. since the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998. As it currently stands, KOSA would be able to hold social…
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State and local election officials plead with Congress for election security funding
As the Trump administration takes a hatchet to the federal government’s election security work and attempts to place conditions on funding to states, state and local election officials are pleading with lawmakers to provide robust support they say is crucial to keeping American elections secure. In a letter sent to leaders on the House and…
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Senators move to quash the use of Chinese AI system by federal contractors
A bipartisan Senate bill would formally ban the use of DeepSeek by federal contractors, part of a larger effort to keep the Chinese-made large language model out of government systems and networks, where lawmakers fear it could pose cybersecurity and national security concerns. The bill, introduced by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev.,…
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House passes legislation to criminalize nonconsensual deepfakes
The House passed a bill Monday evening that would criminalize using a person’s likeness to create nonconsensual deepfake pornography. The Take It Down Act sailed through the chamber on a vote of 402-2, marking one of the first major pieces of legislation passed by Congress to address AI-generated deepfakes. The bill makes it a federal…
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Bipartisanship Key to CISA Renewal
As fractious as Congress has been for the better part of a decade, it did manage to pass the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act in 2015. And now that it’s up for renewal, it seems prudent—no, necessary—that Congress unite to okay it once again. The post Bipartisanship Key to CISA Renewal appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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House investigation into DeepSeek teases out funding, security realities around Chinese AI tool
A House panel has concluded that the U.S. government should double down on export controls and other tools to slow down the progress of Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek, while also preparing for a future where those efforts fail. In a report released Wednesday, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party further fleshes…
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Rep. Swalwell demands Hill briefing on planned CISA personnel cuts
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency must brief Congress on proposed deep cuts to agency personnel, a top Democrat said in a letter to its acting director. California Rep. Eric Swalwell, ranking member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, wrote in the letter to acting Director Bridget Bean on Thursday…
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Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted ads at teens based on their ‘emotional state’
Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell-all book “Careless People,” told U.S. senators during her testimony on Wednesday that Meta actively targeted teens with advertisements based on their emotional state. This claim was first documented by Wynn-Williams in her book, which documents…
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Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams accuses Meta of colluding with China
Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s former head of Global Public Policy, testified before the U.S. Senate today about the company’s relationship with China. According to Wynn-Williams, the company now known as Meta worked directly with the Chinese Community Party (CCP) to “undermine U.S. national security and betray American values,” she said. She alleges that Facebook created custom-built…
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JFK and the Houthis: Haste Makes Waste of Security
Rather than simply exposing buried truths of the assassination, the final tranche of JFK files also exposed the personal information, including social security numbers, of a parade of people associated with the decades-long investigation, many of whom are still alive today. The post JFK and the Houthis: Haste Makes Waste of Security appeared first on…
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Amid personnel turmoil at cyber agencies, a government shutdown could increase potential harm
A potential government shutdown looms by the end of this week if Congress doesn’t pass legislation to keep funding the federal government, a development that could worsen problems cyber personnel and agencies are experiencing under the second Trump administration, experts say. Many cyber feds would likely be exempt from furloughs during a government shutdown, common…
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‘Ban These Chinese Routers NOW,’ Cries House Committee
Sino stoppage scheme: TP-Link in crosshairs, along with other brands. The post ‘Ban These Chinese Routers NOW,’ Cries House Committee appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Karen Evans steps into a leading federal cyber position: executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA
Federal IT and cyber government veteran Karen Evans is the new executive assistant director for cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. It’s one of the most prominent cyber jobs in the federal government, previously held by Jeff Greene and Eric Goldstein. A description of the post on the CISA website says that the…
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In Defense of Oversight – The President and the PCLOB
In late January 2025, President Trump fired the Democratically (big D) appointed members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), an independent watchdog entity designed to provide input and oversight to the Intelligence Community (IC). The post In Defense of Oversight – The President and the PCLOB appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Chinese DeepSeek AI App: FULL of Security Holes Say Researchers
Xi knows if you’ve been bad or good: iPhone app sends unencrypted data to China—and Android app appears even worse. The post Chinese DeepSeek AI App: FULL of Security Holes Say Researchers appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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Tulsi Gabbard tussles with senators over Snowden, surveillance
Tulsi Gabbard, President Donald Trump’s nominee for director of national intelligence, told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that she would leave her own political views “at the door” and deliver “intelligence that is collected, analyzed and reported without bias, prejudice or political influence.” But she also accused the Biden administration and other national security…
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A CISA secure-by-design guru makes the case for the future of the initiative
One of the chief architects of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency campaign to get software developers to design their products with security in mind said he believes it could be one of the best tools the Trump administration has to counter China. Jack Cable, who is departing his role as senior technical adviser Thursday,…
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Bipartisan cloud study recommends speeding federal adoption, or remain vulnerable on cyber
Slow adoption of cloud technologies poses a cybersecurity hazard for federal agencies, which will require an overhaul of contracting, regulatory and budgeting procedures to fix, a bipartisan think tank report that will be released Thursday concludes. Led by veterans of both the first Trump administration and Biden administration as well as lawmakers from both parties,…
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State Department’s disinformation office to close after funding nixed in NDAA
The State Department’s center for fighting global disinformation received a lump of coal in its Christmas stocking this week as congressional lawmakers excluded new funding and authorization for the office beyond this year. The Global Engagement Center, which tracks foreign disinformation, will lose its authority on Dec. 24. Despite a concerted push by State officials…
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Senators, witnesses: $3B for ‘rip and replace’ a good start to preventing Salt Typhoon-style breaches
The $3 billion that Congress folded into the annual defense policy bill to remove Chinese-made telecommunications technology from U.S. networks would be a huge start to defending against breaches like the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, senators and hearing witnesses said Wednesday. Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel recently told Hill leaders that the $1.9 billion…