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Vice President Mike Pence has urged the Senate to pass before this year ends a measure that would establish a cybersecurity agency within the Department of Homeland Security. Pence said in his speech delivered Tuesday at DHS National Cybersecurity Summit in New York that the cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency …

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has suggested provisions to a fiscal 2019 defense policy bill in a move to address cybersecurity and security clearance challenges the federal government faces. He re-introduced a proposal to update a national doctrine on how the government should respond to a foreign …

The Senate Intelligence Committee passed in July a draft bill that would prohibit the creation of a cybersecurity working group between the U.S. and Russia, Nextgov reported Friday. The Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2018 would require the Department of Homeland Security and intelligence agencies to develop within 90 days …

President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn seeks “immunity from prosecution” in exchange for testimony before House and Senate intelligence committees investigating Russia’s involvement in U.S. presidential electoral activities, Reuters reported Thursday. Eric Beech writes Flynn resigned last month amid reports that he gave top White House officials incomplete information about his …

Michael Daniel, White House cybersecurity coordinator, has called on President Donald Trump’s cyber officials to continue to address systemic issues in cybersecurity and introduce changes to information technology management, Nextgov reported Tuesday. “Where I think we can reach some balance point is to say that you will have a more …

Michael Bayer, chairman of the Defense Business Board, has noted that the Defense Department will need to tackle certain issues as part of transition efforts after the presidential election in November, DoD News reported Tuesday. Karen Parrish writes a DBB report highlights focus points for the transition team that include personnel …

Texas-based computer security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered online personal data of approximately 191 million registered U.S. voters that he believes have potentially been exposed by a database misconfiguration, CSO Online reported Monday. Steve Ragan writes Vickery found the open repository lists full names of voters and their residential addresses, dates of birth, …

Walt Havenstein, former CEO of Science Applications International Corp. and BAE Systems, intends to run for governor in New Hampshire as a Republican, Concord Monitor reported April 2. Havenstein has also filed the documents to form his campaign committee, according to the report. “Our state is at a critical juncture, and …