Category: Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

The US Government’s New ‘Ministry of Truth’: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

July 19, 2023
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Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary Mission creep is a serious problem in the federal government, and the ongoing investigations by House Republicans into “weaponization” of government misdeeds have shown how pervasive and deep the problem can be. The FBI, Justice Department, CIA, and even the Internal Revenue Service all look as we have seen,…

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CISA Was Behind the Attempt to Control Your Thoughts, Speech, and Life

July 4, 2023
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Commentary Keeping up with the corruption of the COVID regime feels like drinking from a firehose. The volume of the fraud, the pace of new discoveries, and the breadth of the operations are overwhelming. This makes it imperative for groups like Brownstone Institute to digest the onslaught of information and communicate salient themes and dispositive…

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What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential

April 19, 2023
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Commentary In all my thinking about the lockdown years, I’ve only had time now to think carefully about this strange distinction between essential and nonessential. What did it mean in practice and where did it come from? The edict to divide the workforce came from a previously unknown agency called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…

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Cybersecurity Expert: K-12 Schools Should Do This Now

February 23, 2023
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Cyberattacks on U.S. schools are on the rise, but basic security measures are relatively simple and inexpensive to take, says a school cybersecurity expert. Cyber criminals are increasingly targeting schools, according to a Jan. 2022 report from U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Yet many cyberattacks are relatively simple to…

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US Schools Targeted for Cyberattack: Reports

February 20, 2023
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Cyberattacks against K-12 schools in the United States are increasing, but efforts to combat them are hampered by inadequate staffing and security procedures as well as a lack of data collection and communication between federal agencies overseeing school security. Phishing, ransomware, denial of service attacks, and video conference disruptions hit at least 45 U.S. school…

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What Is CISA and Why Does It Matter?

December 11, 2022
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Commentary On Oct. 27, 2022, Elon Musk fired Vijaya Gadde from her job at Twitter where she was general counsel and the head of legal, policy, and trust. It became quickly obvious to him and others on his team that it was she who drove the censorship policy within the company, including that which blocked…

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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Exposed for ‘Ministry of Truth’ Dirty Work

September 14, 2022
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Commentary The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is supposed to be a government entity that “works with partners to defend against today’s threats and collaborates to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future.” Lately, however, it has instead been in the business of censoring information on private social media platforms,…

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US Says North Korean-Backed Hackers Targeting Health Care Sector With Ransomware

July 8, 2022
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North Korean state-sponsored cyber actors have been targeting hospitals and health care facilities in the United States with ransomware since May 2021, according to U.S. intelligence agencies. The FBI, Treasury Department, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a joint advisory on July 6 about “Maui” ransomware. The agencies suspect that hackers deployed Maui…

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