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Four months after malicious hackers infiltrated a Ukraine utility and cut power to some 230,000 people, the US government says it's continuing to learn valuable lessons from the unprecedented cyberattack.
To protect critical U.S. infrastructure from cyberattack, we have to first define a cyberattack and a strategy to deter it, Texas Republican Rep. Will Hurd said Thursday.
“It starts with, what actually is a digital act of war?” Hurd said on a panel discussing the threat to the U.S. power grid hosted by The Christian Science Monitor Thursday. “What is our countermeasure?”
U.S. Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) was named a 2015 Tech Legislator of the Year by the Washington, D.C.-based Information Technology Industry Council for “advancing policies that support innovation and technology.” He is the first freshman member of Congress to receive the award.
The artwork of three Presidio High School students will be hanging in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. for the next year.
On the black market, a stolen credit card will fetch maybe $2.
But health records, especially Medicare and other payer information, can be worth hundreds, said Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) at a May 10 event hosted by Politico.
Hurd isn't the first to point out thathealth data is a lucrative target for hackers.
We all have sensitive information on our computers and in the cloud, but it’s nothing compared to what the government has to manage. Even though the Obama administration announced their intent to use cloud-first policies in 2010, government entities have been slow to adopt new technologies due to concerns over cloud security.
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing last month to examine the ability of federal agencies to detect and mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The impetus for the hearing was the December 2015 discovery of potentially devastating vulnerabilities in several generations of Juniper Networks’ software.
U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry (District 13-TX), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), visited Laughlin Air Force Base Monday along with U.S. Rep. Will Hurd (District 23-TX), to discuss a variety of issues facing the military.
As Americans head to the ballot box, there's growing concern about the security of voter registration databases that include names, dates of birth, phone numbers and both physical and email addresses.
U.S. Rep. William “Mac” Thornberry (R-Clarendon) assured the audience gathered at Pearl Stable Tuesday morning that there will not be a round of U.S. Military base closures in 2017, though he couldn’t say the same for years beyond that.