Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs Lt. Gen. Richard G. Moore Jr. and Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Cyber Effects Operations, Lt. Gen. Leah G. Lauderback of the U.S. Air Force, discussed the U.S. Air Force’s plans to improve its cyberspace and spectrum superiority with Hudson Institute Senior Fellows…

Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans and Programs Lt. Gen. Richard G. Moore Jr. and Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Cyber Effects Operations, Lt. Gen. Leah G. Lauderback of the U.S. Air Force, discussed the U.S. Air Force’s plans to improve its cyberspace and spectrum superiority with Hudson Institute Senior Fellows…

At least 40 Australian government agencies that hold sensitive information are feared to have become victims of the Russian cybercriminal group AlphV. Departments such as Home Affairs, the Australian Taxation Office, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), the Defence Department, and the Australian Federal Police have been impacted by the database hacking of HWL…

Chinese state hackers will “almost certainly” conduct aggressive cyberattacks to disrupt critical U.S. infrastructure, such as pipelines and railways, if a conflict breaks out with the United States, a senior U.S. cybersecurity official has warned. At an event at the Aspen Institute in Washington, Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said…

Security Minister Tom Tugendhat has said it is too late to suspend or halt the development of artificial intelligence (AI) because of fears about how it will be used. Italy last month said it would temporarily block the AI software ChatGPT because of unlawful data collection and problems in its age verification system. But Tugendhat,…

The top U.S. agency for cyber security has no confidence in the safety of FirstNet, the nation’s military and first responders cellphone network, according to a letter written by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and published April 12 (pdf). Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, expressed concerns about the fact that an expert from the Cybersecurity…

The UK government has named Anne Keast-Butler as the first female director of GCHQ, the country’s cyber intelligence agency. GCHQ—or Government Communications Headquarters—gathers communications from around the world to identify and disrupt threats to Britain. It has a close relationship with the U.S. National Security Agency as well as with counterparts in Canada, Australia, and…

Over 328,000 customers of Latitude Financial have had their data stolen during a “sophisticated and malicious” cyber-attack. On March 16, the Melbourne-based consumer finance provider—one of the biggest non-banking lenders in the country—called for a halt to trading and revealed the incident had been isolated. The company said the hackers obtained employee login credentials and…

The Biden administration will use all instruments of national power—up to and including military action—to neutralize cyber threats to the United States. Ensuring that the United States used a whole-of-government approach to combat cyber threats was necessary to deter adversarial actors, be they nation states or individuals, said acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden. “We…

The Biden administration’s new cybersecurity strategy takes aim at China’s communist regime and other authoritarian powers for subverting the international order through malign cyber activity. The 2023 National Cyber Strategy, released on March 2, says that communist China and other regimes are attempting to export their own forms of authoritarianism through the use of technology….