Cyber

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Care Industry Cybersecurity Task Force released its first report to Congress late Friday afternoon.

Gov. Charlie Baker asked lawmakers Thursday for authority to appoint a Secretary of Technology, a new position within state government with responsibility for such things as cybersecurity, data management and digital operations.

President Vladimir Putin insisted Thursday that the Russian state has never engaged in hacking and said Moscow will wait out the current political storm in the U.S. to forge constructive relations with President Donald Trump, whom he praised as a straightforward person with a “fresh set of eyes.”

The 24th Air Force at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, recently conducted “Black Demon,” a four-week training exercise at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., where Cyber Protection Teams validated their full operational capability, a step necessary before mission tasking.

A report from the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence on Israel’s national organizational model for ensuring cybersecurity offers examples of how measures and institutions can fuel transparency, innovation and investment in digital security infrastructure.

An analysis of cloud resources and network traffic by cloud infrastructure security company RedLock found databases full of sensitive data left exposed, prompting a report on best practices for extremely dynamic public cloud computing environments.

Former DHS acting Under Secretary for Management Chris Cummiskey on what President Trump’s budget proposal has in store for cybersecurity and operations.

Symantec’s Chris Townsend, vice president of federal, and Jeff Greene, senior director of global government affairs and policy, discuss the president’s budget and what it means for the cybersecurity industry.

Officials say hackers may have obtained the names of more than 16,000 people who have Florida concealed weapon permits.

So far, experts and observers have cast blame, in full or in part, on factors ranging from, in no particular order, victim organizations’ poor cybersecurity hygiene, Microsoft, the NSA, the Shadow Brokers and North Korea-linked Lazarus Group.