Robert Silvers has been appointed assistant secretary for cyber policy at the Department of Homeland Security and will also hold responsibility over related strategies at DHS, Federal News Radio reported Monday.

Jason Miller writes Silvers succeeds Rosemary Wenchel, who is retiring after more than 25 years in government.

Silvers has worked with DHS since 2012 as deputy chief of staff and oversaw policy development, operations and budget issues at the department.

He also held the role of senior counselor to the DHS deputy secretary and held a similar position in support of the director at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) has proposed a substitute amendment to the Email Privacy Act ahead of the panel’s markup of the bill on Wednesday, The Hill newspaper reported Monday.

Mario Trujillo writes the bill would update the decades-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act and requires law enforcement personnel to obtain a warrant before they compel a technology company to hand over the content of customer emails or other stored electronic messages.

The report said Goodlatte’s amendment calls for the removal of a provision that would mandate agencies to notify a target of a governmental investigation when they issue warrant for personal electronic communications to a provider.

He said at a congressional hearing in December that he believes the provision will restrict the investigative powers of Congress, according to Trujillo’s article.

FBI disclosed that a foreign group of hackers has infiltrated multiple U.S. government and commercial computer networks as early as 2011 to steal sensitive information, Motherboard reported April 4.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai writes the publication obtained an FBI notice that lists websites used by the Advanced Persistent Threat 6 group, or APT6, as command-and-control servers to conduct phishing campaigns against their target organizations.

The bureau suspended the affected domains in late 2015 and issued the cybersecurity warning to urge companies to increase vigilance to protect their systems from persistent cyber criminals.

FireEye security experts believe that APT6 is a Chinese state-affiliated hacking group, the report said.

The federal government indicted five Chinese military officials in 2014 who were accused of perpetrating cyber espionage operations in the U.S. private sector and identified China as the entity behind a massive breach at the Office of Personnel Management last year.

A Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. official has said that a former employee “inadvertently” breached information of approximately 44,000 FDIC clients in February by downloading data to a personal storage device, the Washington Post reported Monday.

Joe Davidson writes Lawrence Gross Jr., chief information officer at FDIC, wrote in a March 18 memo to FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg that the employee returned the device to FDIC a day after the agency detected the data breach on Feb. 29 through the use of a system designed to monitor downloads to storage devices.

“The FDIC’s investigation does not indicate that any sensitive information has been disseminated or compromised,” Gross, also chief privacy officer at FDIC, said in the memo obtained by the newspaper.

“The FDIC’s relationship with the employee has not been adversarial,” he added.

Barbara Hagenbaugh, a spokeswoman for FDIC, said some of the information affected by the breach include names, Social Security numbers and addresses of agency clients.

FDIC has prohibited the use of portable data storage devices for most of its personnel and will extend the policy to other employees, she added.