This Week in Washington StateScoop FCC commits $1.2B in emergency funds to connect students The Federal Communications Commission on Friday announced it’s committed $1.2 billion in an initial funding wave to help students across the U.S. get access to the digital tools they need for learning. The funding package will be used to ensure access to […]

This Week in Washington Washington Post Biden wants to make it harder to pay ransomware hackers The Biden administration is making swift progress on its master strategy to combat ransomware. But any reduction in attacks may still be far off. The administration plans to move as early as this week to place sanctions on financial exchanges

This Week in Washington DigiDay Congress moves to give $1B to FTC to fund new bureau to protect privacy in tech platform era The Federal Trade Commission is closer to establishing a new bureau dedicated to protecting privacy in today’s data economy. A proposal passed by a House committee yesterday would allocate $1 billion to the

This Week in Washington Roll Call Congress seeks to compel infrastructure operators to report cyberattacks Congress is moving to compel companies that operate critical infrastructure to inform federal officials of cyberattacks after years of relying on a patchy — and voluntary — reporting system that often left U.S. agencies in the dark. Some lawmakers want banks,

This Week in Washington CNBC Google, Microsoft plan to spend billions on cybersecurity after meeting with Biden The commitments range from working toward new industry standards to supplying other businesses with stronger security tools and providing skills training to workers to fill the roughly 500,000 unfilled U.S. cybersecurity jobs. Biden recently signed an executive order requiring

This Week in Washington The Hill FTC expected to reveal new strategy in Facebook antitrust fight The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) this week is expected to lay out its new legal strategy in an ongoing antitrust battle with Facebook that will also reveal how FTC chief Lina Khan plans to take on the market power of

This Week in Washington The Washington Post Senate infrastructure bill sets stage for massive effort to make broadband more available and affordable Senate Democrats and Republicans are inching closer to adopting more than $14 billion to help Americans who are struggling to pay for high-speed Internet, part of a package of digital initiatives that together amount

This Week in Washington Reuters Biden: If U.S. has ‘real shooting war’ it could be result of cyber attacks President Joe Biden on Tuesday warned that if the United States ended up in a “real shooting war” with a “major power” it could be the result of a significant cyber attack on the country, highlighting what

This Week in Washington Nextgov Bill Would Require Federal Agencies and Contractors to Report Cyber Intrusions Within 24 hours Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va., has introduced legislation that would shield companies from liability associated with cybersecurity intrusions they experience in exchange for reports of such incidents that could be used to track perpetrators and

This Week in Washington CyberScoop Senate confirms former White House, NSA official Jen Easterly as CISA director after delay Seven months into Joe Biden’s presidency, an administration confronting several cybersecurity crises finally has a permanent director en route to take over one of the top few cyber posts in the federal government. The Senate on Monday