This Week in Washington
- The Hill: Addressing the nation’s cyber workforce challenge will require new approaches at the federal and state level to improve training and help prepare future workers for careers in cybersecurity.
- TechCrunch: Two U.S. senators have introduced a bill to help crypto companies report cybersecurity threats as regulators around the world try to provide frameworks for the digital asset industry.
- GCN: The U.S. sees the largest amount of ransomware attacks worldwide and makes up for nearly half (46%) of the more than 5,000 incidents which researchers analyzed for NordLocker’s report published on Tuesday.
- Reuters: The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to advance a bill that would update fees companies pay for merger reviews and strengthen state attorneys general in antitrust fights.
- Axios: The Federal Communications Commission approved a long-delayed proposal to crack down on spam texts Friday night after Axios asked agency members why it hadn’t moved on the issue.
Article Summary
- Microsoft #BuildFor2030 Hackathon: In everyone lies a changemaker, and you can make an impact. We invite you to join us for the Microsoft #BuildFor2030 Hackathon, an opportunity to focus your attention and resources on growing as a changemaker, and creating solutions that will make a difference, in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
- StateScoop: Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey’s office said the Alabama Middle-Mile Network will be financed using American Rescue Plan Act funds and will connect nearly 3,000 miles of new and existing fiber infrastructure over three years.
- HealthITAnalytics: Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Florida College of Medicine are creating a set of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to determine patient risk for various rare diseases.
- CyberScoop: The Russian government is planning “massive cyberattacks” against Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities to “increase the effect of missile strikes on electrical supply facilities,” the Ukrainian government said Monday.
- Washington Post: To see what potential hackers could see on a shared network, we invited professionals from cybersecurity company Avast to “compromise” my home network. We logged onto the same network at the same time, just like we would at a coffee shop, to see how much data a bad actor with a few free tools could learn about an unassuming WiFi user.
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