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 North Korean-sponsored actors are targeting sensitive and proprietary information, and the malware could disrupt regular operations and disable systems and files.

As recently as Wednesday afternoon, a U.S. government website was hosting a malicious JavaScript downloader that led victims to installations of Cerber ransomware. The malware link has since been taken down.

DHS and the FBI warned that North Korean attackers are targeting U.S. businesses with malware- and botnet-related attacks that are part of concerted effort dubbed “Hidden Cobra.”

Senators introduced a bill last week to establish a bug bounty pilot program within the Department of Homeland Security.

Security tools that proxy and inspect HTTPS traffic create a blindspot for network administrators trying to determine whether communication between clients and servers is secure.

By making the Vulnerability Equities Process law, advocates of the idea argue there would be more reliability, transparency and accountability in the process of government vulnerability disclosure.

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.

The Department of Homeland Security has designated the U.S. voting infrastructure as critical infrastructure.

Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia wrote a letter to the heads of the FCC, FTC and DHS asking whether ISPs have the power to keep insecure connected devices off the public Internet.