Could a hacker seize control of America's dams, unleashing floods and chaos across vulnerable communities? Cybersecurity analysts and leading lawmakers warn it's possible.

A group of 50 cybersecurity professionals signed an open letter that was sent on April 12 to the US Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, and several members of the US Congress.

A measure led by two House Republicans would enable the Environmental Protection Agency to certify a governing body to develop and recommend cybersecurity requirements for water treatment and wastewater systems.

A secretive U.S. cyber military force ramped up global operations in 2023, executing more than double the average number of "hunt forward" campaigns than the previous five years, according to the head of U.S. Cyber Command.

The public draft – titled Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management: A CSF 2.0 Community Profile, was published by NIST on April 3. The agency is seeking public comments on the draft through May 20.

Malware Next-Gen was originally designed to allow U.S. federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government agencies to submit suspicious files and receive automated malware analysis through static and dynamic analysis tools.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) says it is taking action to address significant weaknesses in telecommunications networks that can enable cybercrime and spying.

U.S. federal agencies have until December to implement a series of safeguards that aim to ensure the government is responsibly using artificial intelligence, the White House ordered Thursday.

The strategy, which covers fiscal years 2024 through 2027, lays out four topline goals, such as improving best practices within the industrial base. Each goal contains a subset of objectives, such as being able to recover from a cyberattack.

It’s now official: the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hand over some aspects of the management of the world’s most widely used software vulnerability repository to an industry consortium.