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On September 27-28, 2023, DHS hosted the first Western Hemisphere Cyber Conference, which convened foreign government cyber leaders to discuss cybersecurity challenges and identify areas of collaboration.

US federal agencies were given until midnight on Monday (2pm Tuesday AEDT) to patch a critical hole in Windows that has been called Zerologon and submit a report about it to the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency by midnight on Wednesday.

The government has kicked off a pilot of its myGovID identity solution on the last day of October, with the trial open to people who have iPhones at the outset as a private, beta app is available for this operating system only. An Android app is expected to be issued next year and a Web interface to be provided after that.

Amazon plans to enter the Australian Protected cloud market, but it really can't be bothered to offer the same service as it does to the American Government, it would appear.

Australia's digital identity program, GovPass, will receive $92.4 million to be taken to completion, beginning in 2018-19, the Federal Budget papers show.

Australia has blamed Russian state-sponsored hackers for what it says were attacks utilising routers in 2017 as a means to gain access to websites belonging to Australian companies.

The US Department of Homeland Security has filed its response arguing against Kaspersky Lab's bid for a preliminary injunction to dismiss the ban on the use of its software in the US public service.

A US Congress committee has said it will issue a subpoena to the Department of Homeland Security if the latter does not provide its reasons for imposing a ban on software products from Kaspersky Lab. The request was made last year.

Citing "reputational and revenue impact of a Binding Operational Directive based on media reports, rumour and unsubstantiated allegations", Kaspersky Lab is fighting back and wants due process.

No matter how many kids you may or may not admit to having, don’t fall for this Department of Human Services “subsidy” email scam.

Earlier today an official message from DHS and FBI asserted that despite reports to the contrary, there was no intrusion at the Illinois water treatment facility.

In the past few days, two separate US-based water authorities appear to have had their control systems breached - one of them has suffered physical damage.

The tale you are about to read will (I hope) make you sick to your stomach. Reading this tale will make it abundantly clear that reason and good will have left the building.  Permamently.

 

A couple of months ago, the US Dept of Homeland Security announced they wanted to recruit 1,000 cyber security professionals over the next three years.  The process has started.

In yet another attempt to avoid good ol' policing, The Department of Homeland (in)Security is looking at using Wii-fit boards to detect nervousness in air passengers.

A recent Department of Homeland Security Report strongly suggests that point-of-impact security, for example checkpoints at airports, is far too late in the sequence of events to properly detect and deal with terrorism threats.