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The Department of Energy’s office of cybersecurity, energy security and emergency response has advised partners in the government and energy industry to be vigilant to phishing attacks, malicious emails and other cyber threats amid the new coronavirus pandemic. CESER is calling on corporate leaders to advise their employees to be aware of risks associated with phishing, external emails and social engineering, DOE said Thursday.

Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, has asked Vice President Mike Pence to introduce a centralized federal website that would provide citizens with reliable and trusted information on the novel coronavirus 2019.

A senior official at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said CISA did not receive reports of any malicious cyber activity seeking to disrupt the 2020 presidential primary elections in 14 states, The Hill reported Tuesday.

Chad Wolf, acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, delivered his remarks to the Homeland Security Experts Group Friday about DHS’ 2020 priorities and election security is one of the priorities he discussed.

The Census Bureau has established a “fusion center” to help track misinformation in social media platforms during the 2020 census, Federal News Network reported Thursday.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Russia continues to carry out election interference efforts and that the U.S. considers China as the most “severe counterintelligence threat,” Nextgov reported Wednesday. Wray told the Senate Judiciary Committee in his testimony Tuesday that the bureau is collaborating with the private sector and other federal agencies to make the public aware of Russia’s influence and misinformation campaigns as well as counter the spread of deepfakes.