Pentagon, private sector must partner to fight new era of cyberattacks
Over the past six months, there have been 10,666 ransomware variants identified, almost twice the total in the previous six months.
By Felipe Fernandez
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DISA’s ‘Gray Network’ faces performance monitoring challenges
Gray networks sit between inner and outer VPN tunnels and provide an extra layer of security for encrypted classified data.
By Brandon Shopp
US attorney general says encryption creates security risk
Attorney General William Barr's comments at a cybersecurity conference mark a continuing effort by the Justice Department to push tech companies to provide law enforcement with access to encrypted devices and applications during investigations.
DHS wants more secure call encryption for feds
The Department of Homeland Security wants to conduct research on an end-to-end secure phone call platform for the government to communicate for unclassified and official use calls.
By Justin Lynch
‘The best piece of legislation’ in DC is about quantum computing
Rep. Will Hurd warned that Russia and China are sucking up encrypted communications in the hopes of retroactively reading them after they achieve encryption-breaking quantum computing capabilities.
By Mark Pomerleau
IG finds communications failures in FBI handling of San Bernardino shooter’s phone
The Inspector General report found that although the FBI director was truthful in his 2016 testimonies that the FBI was incapable of unlocking the phone, lack of communication meant that some avenues to do so were not pursued.
By Jessie Bur