Rhyne's attack involved unauthorized remote desktop sessions, deletion of network administrator accounts, and changing of passwords, showcasing significant security vulnerabilities.
HHS Chief Information Officer Clark Minor stated that consolidating the CTO, CDO, and CAIO roles within his office allows the department to move faster on shared platforms and protect systems more effectively.
What we want to do is make sure that CIOs are fully empowered to be there at the beginning of conversations, that they are part of the formulation of budget and policy from liftoff.
We write with deep concern regarding the Department of Homeland Security's investigation into whether cybersecurity staff provided false information to the former Acting Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The lawmakers said the development raises questions about whether officials adhered to established intelligence security rules and whether career CISA staff were improperly targeted after administering the exams.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd in a 71-29 Senate vote to lead the National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Cyber Command (CYBERCOM), filling a critical national security role that had remained vacant for nearly a year after the firing of the previous director, General Timothy Haugh, in April 2025.
CISA's guidance is intended to assist critical infrastructure stakeholders, which includes private sector entities across various sectors, with implementing an insider threat mitigation program that combines physical security, cybersecurity, personnel awareness, and community partnerships. Although framed for critical infrastructure, CISA's guidance is relevant to a broader range of organizations, including those outside of critical infrastructure sectors.
Organizations have reported heightened cybersecurity risks as a result of these skill shortages, but the issues don't end there. Many teams will also experience burnout, which is an issue for security teams even in the best of times, which can only add to the talent gap concern if burnt out employees leave the industry.
The post has been without a permanent official since former Deputy Federal CIO Drew Myklegard departed OMB last September, though the website for the CIO Council lists Jay Teitelbaum as holding the position in an acting capacity. Myklegard joined the White House office in January 2022 and was named acting deputy federal CIO that March. The agency then elevated him to the permanent role in October 2022.
Uncle Sam's cyber defenders have given federal agencies just three days to patch a maximum-severity Dell bug that's been under active exploitation since at least mid-2024. CISA this week added the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-22769, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, ordering civilian agencies to secure affected systems by February 21 - giving them just three days to get fixes in place.
The organization puts on the prominent annual gathering of cybersecurity experts, vendors, and researchers that started in 1991 as a small cryptography event hosted by the corporate security giant RSA. RSAC is now a separate company with events and initiatives throughout the year, but its conference in San Francisco is still its flagship offering with tens of thousands of attendees each spring.
It may be a bit of an understatement to say that Resecurity has been up in the faces of ScatteredLapsus$Hunters and ShinyHunters. Not Only did they recently embarrass the former by deceiving them with a honeypot and providing law enforcement with details about the threat actor attempting to access the synthetic data, but now they have followed up with a new article about Connor Riley Moucka ("Waifu," "Judische," "Ellyel8"), Cameron John Wagenius ("Kiberphant0m"), and John Erin Binns ("IRDev," "IntelSecrets").
Kirsten Davies has been sworn in as the Pentagon's chief information officer, giving the Defense Department its first permanent IT head during Trump 2.0. Davies was confirmed by the Senate on Dec. 18 as part of a group of tech nominations, which included Ethan Klein to be the U.S. chief technology officer and Pedro Allende to lead the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology office. The LinkedIn page for the DOD CIO office said Davies was officially sworn in on Dec. 23.
