In the wake of the elimination of the federal cybersecurity czar position, it turns out that three-quarters of agencies are unprepared for an attack.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said this week that hackers managed to infiltrate one of its systems last year, something that likely facilitated insider trading.

Eight members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council resigned last week, citing insufficient attention to the growing threats to the cybersecurity by the Trump Administration.

Jaya Baloo, CISO of KPN, the Netherlands’ leading telecommunications provider, talks to Mike Mimoso about the WannaCry ransomware outbreak and how large network providers and enterprises must contend with advanced attacks.

The news of the week is discussed, including this week’s Microsoft Malware Protection Engine bug, Handbrake OS X malware, the HP keylogger, Trump’s Cybersecurity EO, and more.

Harley Geiger, director of public policy at Rapid7, talks about how policy goes hand in hand with technology when it comes to cybersecurity, the government’s focus on IoT and critical infrastructure, and more.

The United States is losing on the cyber-battlefield and face a bleak threat landscape, according to DHS chairman Michael McCaul. But, he says, there is still hope to turn things around.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the nuclear power plant ‘disruption,’ the StrongPity APT group, and the proliferation of IoT botnets.

When asked to describe what it’s like to deal with the constantly looming threat of ransomware, Chad Wilson, the Director of Information Security at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C., didn’t beat around the bush. “I’ll sum it up in one word: It’s scary,” Wilson said at a Federal Trade Commission workshop Wednesday. “It’s...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a new set of draft guidelines on Friday in hopes that medical device manufacturers not only address cybersecurity risks before they design products, but also during the maintenance of those products. FDA outlines cybersecurity recommendations for medical device manufacturers. https://t.co/d58cWW3ecJ — U.S. FDA (@US_FDA) January 15, 2016 The...