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Below: The Justice Department seized $2 million from another REvil-affiliated hacker, and prosecutors are going after fundraising groups run by Trump ally Sidney Powell.
A congressional plan to expand government cloud computing is facing head winds from lawmakers who say it leaves cloud systems too vulnerable to Chinese hacking.
Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio), the top Republican on the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) say the reforms don’t do enough to prevent China and other U.S. adversaries from slipping malicious software into government cloud systems.
“Right now, we do not have sufficient safeguards in place to identify and prevent foreign interference in our cloud systems, and I believe that must change before we codify this program,” Portman said yesterday during a roundtable discussion on the effort.
The government has spent much of the past decade scrambling to convert large portions of its clunky and outdated IT infrastructure to commercially built computer clouds, which most experts say are more secure against hacking. The move to cloud has been a key component of efforts to protect sensitive government data against a rash of cyberattacks from Russia and China.
Bipartisan bills in the House and Senate would deliver $20 million to boost that effort and require additional...
SOUTH LEBANON — Israeli and Lebanese senior officials on Thursday denied reports that the Israeli army had withdrawn part of its troops from the “buffer zone” in occupied southern Lebanon, followi...