NASA has been cautioned by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for not having mandatory security guidance in place for its spacecraft acquisition policies and standards.

The alert says that water operators are employing poor security standards that have allowed the hackers to breach their networks, including the use of default passwords that are included when the water system management tools are first installed.

In its report, the GAO highlighted “new and continuing” shortcomings with information systems and the safeguarding of assets, issues that increase the likelihood of unauthorized access to sensitive IRS data.

The Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot was unveiled in January 2023 as a program designed to “identify organizations with internet-accessible vulnerabilities commonly associated with known ransomware actors.”

The head of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency warned the country’s leading research universities on Thursday that foreign states are targeting their institutions and imperiling national security.

Members will include representatives of tech companies, critical infrastructure entities, academia, and government agencies, as well as “leaders in the civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy communities,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

After failing to achieve “expected results,” Sweden’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) is facing a range of reforms, including being brought under the control of the country’s cyber and signals intelligence agency.

The DIB Vulnerability Disclosure Program (DIB-VDP), a joint venture between the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3), the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), and HackerOne, will bring better vulnerability disclosure practices to the DIB.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is targeting a September 30 deadline to give federal agencies a list of example software products deemed critical for the federal government’s cyber posture.

Doctors, clinics and other providers are prohibited from disclosing protected health information related to lawful reproductive healthcare, according to a final rule released Monday by federal regulators to "strengthen" HIPAA privacy.