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• Amazon DNS service server hijacked for $152,000 Ether theft (cyberscoop.com)
  Hackers made off with about $152,000 worth of Ether in an attack that exploited weaknesses in the internet's infrastructure to steal users'…
• Here's all the security features in the new Gmail (cyberscoop.com)
  Gmail now comes with a host of added security features, including a confidential mode, expiration dates on messages, and two factor authent…
• Fed contractors aren't using DMARC, new study finds (cyberscoop.com)
  Just one of the 50 biggest federal IT contractors have adopted an important email security measure to guard against phishing, according to…
• The NSA now officially has a new chief (cyberscoop.com)
  Gen. Paul Nakasone, an experienced military leader with a unique background in cyber-operations and intelligence gathering, will be the nex…
• 'Aggressive posture' defines election security work, DHS official tells senators (cyberscoop.com)
  A senior Department of Homeland Security official on Tuesday defended the department’s work to help secure voting systems before midterm el…
• SEC fines Yahoo remnant Altaba $35 million for failing to disclose breach (cyberscoop.com)
  The SEC said Yahoo didn't properly investigate or consider whether to inform investors of its 2014 breach, which didn't become public until…
• Open letter urges states to spend election security funds wisely (cyberscoop.com)
  Signatories include election security experts from think tanks and universities, former state election officials and former federal governm…
• Army pioneer heads to Army Cyber Command (cyberscoop.com)
  Command Sgt. Maj. Sheryl Lyon hopes she’s eased the pathway for future female military leaders.
• U.S. cyber warriors are getting better at fighting ISIS online, says top general (cyberscoop.com)
  U.S. Army cyber warriors have gotten better at countering ISIS’s digital operations over the last six months, according to Lieutenant Gener…
• U.S. government weighing sanctions against Kaspersky Lab (cyberscoop.com)
  The U.S. government is considering sanctions against Kaspersky Lab as part of a wider round of action carried out against the Russian gover…
• ˜Orangeworm’ hacking campaign hits X-ray and MRI machines (cyberscoop.com)
  A newly disclosed hacking campaign has infected multinational healthcare firms through malware that has threatened X-ray and MRI machines,…
• Paul Nakasone among favorites to become next NSA director (cyberscoop.com)
  With Mike Rogers set to retire later this year, several names are being floated amongst government leaders as to who will become the next N…
• Lawmakers want to know how to mitigate cyber risk in medical devices (cyberscoop.com)
  Replace the device? Patch the software? Lawmakers want to know how to protect legacy medical equipment from cyberthreats.
• Australia and Portugal join NATO cyber cooperative (cyberscoop.com)
  The countries are joining the same week that the NATO group is holding its annual Locked Shields cyberdefense exercise.
• A cybersecurity power struggle is brewing at the National Security Council (cyberscoop.com)
  The arrival of national security adviser John Bolton has prompted an attempted power grab by a junior member of the National Security Counc…
• In the face of government pressure, Kaspersky pledges to open new U.S. offices (cyberscoop.com)
  Chief Executive Eugene Kaspersky confirmed the decision on social media after Reuters reported that the anti-virus company had plans to clo…
• Security researchers call for calm after DHS warns of energy grid hacking (cyberscoop.com)
  A security alert about foreign hackers probing into U.S. energy companies released late Friday by the Homeland Security Department frighten…
• Winter Olympics cyberattacks meant to 'send a message' (cyberscoop.com)
  Multiple cybersecurity firms now suggests that a hacking group equipped with "destructive" wiper malware may have been behind the disturban…
• How the Democrats plan to stop hackers from breaching 2018 campaigns (cyberscoop.com)
  Fresh off the wounds of the 2016 campaign, Democratic political reorganizations are compelling political campaigns to improve their cyberse…
• Kaspersky Lab banned from advertising on Twitter (cyberscoop.com)
  Kaspersky Lab has been banned from advertising on Twitter due to its alleged ties to Russian intelligence agencies.
• Department of Energy would get new cybersecurity office under White House budget proposal (cyberscoop.com)
  The Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response would focus on energy infrastructure security and support expanded nat…
• White House pushing for research carveout in GDPR (cyberscoop.com)
  The White House is hoping to convince regulators to protect security researchers so they can continue to scrape data that's relevant for in…
• Was the recent flood of traffic to FCC's website actually a DDoS attack? (cyberscoop.com)
  Cybersecurity experts have cast doubt on the Federal Communications Commission’s claim that it was the target of a distributed denial of se…
• DHS notifies 21 states of Russian hacking attempts prior to 2016 election (cyberscoop.com)
  A small number of networks were compromised, CyberScoop has learned, but none of the targeted systems involved the tallying of votes.
• DHS prepares cross-sector strategy to limit domino effects from big cyberattacks (cyberscoop.com)
  A forthcoming cybersecurity strategy from the Department of Homeland Security will seek to curb “systemic risk” to critical infrastructure…
• Manfra: Private sector on board with more robust DHS cyber strategy (cyberscoop.com)
  Private firms won’t have any reservations about supporting the more robust cybersecurity strategy that the Department of Homeland Security…
• 48 million social media profiles left exposed by data scraping firm: report (cyberscoop.com)
  The exposed data includes detailed information scraped from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Zillow.
• Trump sends cyber war strategy to Congress (cyberscoop.com)
  President Donald Trump has sent a cyber warfare policy to Congress that outlines how the administration will tackle some of the field’s mos…
• First-of-its-kind forum on election security gathers state and local officials with feds (cyberscoop.com)
  The forum was the first of its kind and comes about a month after a U.S. spending bill provided states with $380 million for election secur…
• Researcher finds files through security flaw that raise questions over Calif. prisoner death (cyberscoop.com)
  Security researcher Chris Vickery stumbled upon files that were accidentally exposed to the public Internet which call Daniel Oppenheimer's…
• Yubico CEO: Two-factor authentication should mirror seat belt's history (cyberscoop.com)
  Yubico CEO Stina Ehrensvard believes the right path for increasing adoption of the security practice is to follow the rise of seat belts in…
• Prosecutors hand over terabytes of evidence in case against Russian charged with LinkedIn breach (cyberscoop.com)
  The evidence in the Yevgeniy Nikulin case will take at least two months for defense attorneys to sort through because of the sheer amount o…
• Election security bill still needs work in some areas, state officials tell Senate sponsors (cyberscoop.com)
  Six states discussed with the main sponsors of the Secure Elections Act how they would implement the bill.
• Roy Moore scandal used for phishing schemes aimed at law firms (cyberscoop.com)
  A group loosely connected to China is trying to capitalize on the Roy Moore scandal, sending phishing emails to law firms based in the U.S.
• Companies are stopping more cyberattacks, but have room to improve defenses, survey shows (cyberscoop.com)
  An Accenture survey found that 87 percent of focused cyberattacks are prevented, compared to 70 percent reported in a similar study a year…
• Bolton will lead charge to replace cybersecurity coordinator, DHS secretary says (cyberscoop.com)
  The new national security adviser will restructure aspects of the coordinator's job, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said.
• Intel faces 32 class action suits stemming from Spectre and Meltdown (cyberscoop.com)
  The company disputes the claims and says it is fighting all the lawsuits "vigorously."
• Here are the cybersecurity amendments added to the House's defense bill (cyberscoop.com)
  House members attached several cybersecurity-focused amendments to the fiscal 2018 National Defense Authorization Act.
• Really bad Intel chip flaw will impact a decade-worth of computers (cyberscoop.com)
  A critical security flaw in Intel processors will require an overhaul of operating system kernels after research found that decades worth o…
• Cybersecurity adviser Rob Joyce to leave White House, return to NSA (cyberscoop.com)
  The departures of Joyce and Bossert leave big gaps in the Trump administration's cybersecurity expertise.
• Supply-chain vulnerabilities are a 'digital public health crisis,' says DHS's Manfra (cyberscoop.com)
  Persistent supply chain vulnerabilities such as hardware and software bugs “amount to a digital public health crisis” that the government a…
• Cloudflare announces Spectrum expanded DDoS protection (cyberscoop.com)
  "It’s DDoS protection for any box, container or VM that connects to the internet," the company announced on Thurday. "Whether it runs email…
• ViperRAT spyware resurfaces in Google Play Store (cyberscoop.com)
  the ViperRAT malware family returned to the Google Play Store, according to new research from the mobile security firm Lookout.
• Mick Mulvaney: CFPB hit by over 200 data 'lapses' (cyberscoop.com)
  The head of the CFPB revealed Thursday that the agency had suffered some 240 “lapses” in data security over an unspecified time period.
• Pennsylvania moves to replace all paperless voting machines by 2020 (cyberscoop.com)
  Pennsylvania says it will replace all voting machines that do not produce a paper record for each vote by 2020, according to an announcemen…
• Former HHS CISO to join voting technology vendor as security lead (cyberscoop.com)
  ES&S announced that Christopher Wlaschin will be its new vice president of systems security responsible for the company's security efforts.
• Respiratory device maker Inogen says breach exposed customer data (cyberscoop.com)
  Inogen says it has notified 30,000 current and former customers, granting them credit monitoring and an insurance reimbursement policy.
• Security researchers and industry reps clash over access to voting machines (cyberscoop.com)
  Security researchers and vendors are disagree over whether a wide-ranging copyright law should have an exemption for research on voting mac…
• Celebgate hacker pleads guilty; all involved will now serve prison sentences (cyberscoop.com)
  A Connecticut man charged with breaking into 240 iCloud accounts as part of the Celebgate saga has pleaded guilty for his role in the crime.
• DHS security unit makes another big hire from elsewhere in government (cyberscoop.com)
  The National Protection and Programs Directorate has hired Daniel Kroese, the chief of staff for Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe, as a senio…