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Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks at a hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Top cyber agency still unsure of fallout months after hack

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Jen Easterly, left, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, center, and Harry Coker, director of the Office of the National Cyber Director, are sworn during a House Select Committee focusing on China on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) ** FILE **

U.S., allied intelligence agencies issue rare joint warning on Chinese state hacking group

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks at a hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 4, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Grassley investigating hack of top U.S. cyber agency, says Americans at risk

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A vendor sits near a board depicting surveillance cameras during Security China 2023 in Beijing, on June 9, 2023. After years of breakneck growth, China's security and surveillance industry is now focused on shoring up its vulnerabilities to the United States and other outside actors, worried about risks posed by hackers, advances in artificial intelligence and pressure from rival governments. The renewed emphasis on self-reliance, combating fraud and hardening systems against hacking was on display at the recent Security China exhibition in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Federal government’s lead cybersecurity agency reveals it was hacked

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This Feb 23, 2019, photo shows the inside of a computer in Jersey City, N.J. Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly Sunday, July 4, 2021, to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record, with some details emerging about how the Russia-linked gang responsible breached the company whose software was the conduit. An affiliate of the notorious REvil gang, infected thousands of victims in at least 17 countries on Friday, largely through firms that remotely manage IT infrastructure for multiple customers, cybersecurity researchers said. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) **FILE**

Biden administration takes credit for warning hundreds of targets before ransomware attacks

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Jen Easterly, director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, speaks at the National Association of Secretaries of State winter meeting, Feb. 16, 2023, in Washington. U.S. officials say the Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang's global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Federal cybersecurity agency accused of trampling on Americans’ First Amendment rights

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

John Love, left, and Christina Harrison vote at Martin Luther King Jr. Park in Columbia, S.C., on Nov. 3, 2020. South Carolina's first-ever round of early voting for the general election started Monday, Oct. 24, 2022, with no problems at the polls, but a state website where people go to check voting locations or get a sample ballot crashed. (Joshua Boucher/The State via AP) **FILE**

Election website outages don’t affect vote count accuracy, federal cyber agency says

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

People in privacy booths vote in next week's midterm election at an early voting polling site at Frank McCourt High School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City on Tuesday, November 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

Biden cyber official says ‘elections are not over when the polling places close’

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This Feb 23, 2019, photo shows the inside of a computer. The Biden administration will offer rewards up to $10 million for information leading to the identification of foreign state-sanctioned malicious cyber activity against critical U.S. infrastructure, including ransomware attacks. The administration is launching the website stopransomware.gov to offer the public resources for countering the threat. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane) **FILE**

Biden admin urging cyber pros to closely guard critical infrastructure because of Ukraine crisis

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

The Kremlin in Moscow is seen here on Sept. 29, 2017. The federal government's primary cyber security agency is urging computer network administrators for American critical infrastructure networks to immediately bolster security against electronic attacks following suspected Russian cyberstrikes against Ukraine. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) **FILE**

Federal agency urges better defenses after Russian cyber hit on Ukraine

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Voters emerge from Sabathani Community Center after casting their ballots during municipal elections Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, in Minneapolis. Voters in Minneapolis are deciding whether to replace the city's police department with a new Department of Public Safety. The election comes more than a year after George Floyd's death launched a movement to defund or abolish police across the country. (David Joles /Star Tribune via AP)

Federal cyber agency: ‘No specific, credible threat to election infrastructure’ on Tuesday

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Law enforcement, national security agencies enlist tech firms in cyber battles

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this May 11, 2021, photo, a Colonial Pipeline station is seen in Smyrna, Ga., near Atlanta. The Department of Homeland Security has announced new requirements for U.S. pipeline operators to bolster cybersecurity following a May ransomware attack that disrupted gas delivery across the East Coast. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart) **FILE**

Feds detail alleged Chinese cyberattacks on American pipelines starting in 2011

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

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Intelligence agencies detail alleged ‘brute force’ hacking methods used by Russia

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., speaks with reporters after a Republican caucus luncheon on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

GOP Sen. Rick Scott pledges to block cyber nominee until Biden visits U.S.-Mexico border

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

A customer pumps gas at Costco, as a worker directs traffic, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Charlotte, N.C. Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, halted operations last week after revealing a cyberattack that it said had affected some of its systems. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

Biden Cybersecurity agency lacks data on Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Rep. Mike Gallagher said coronavirus relief money would help fill gaps in the federal government’s cyber networks, but the funding would only cover one part of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s mission. (Associated Press)

Jim Langevin, Mike Gallagher: Cybersecurity agency needs $400 million more

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

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U.S. warns hackers actively exploiting remote access software used by federal agencies

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

In this June 8, 2013 file photo, Chris Inglis, then deputy director of the National Security Agency testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Inglis is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director at the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Biden names 2 ex-NSA officials for senior cyber positions

By ERIC TUCKER and ALAN SUDERMAN and BEN FOX - Associated Press

In this May 22, 2019, file photo, Christopher Krebs, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Chris Krebs weighing legal options after Trump campaign lawyer Joe diGenova says he should be shot

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times