"A Pentagon spokesperson did not comment on the resignations but said the office’s functions would be absorbed by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, of which the DDS is a part." www.politico.com/news/2025/04... #DoD #defense #cybersec #natsec #tech #CISA #NIST DOGe #frauds #law
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For #cybersecurity professionals, a failure to log activity is a cardinal sin & contradicts best practices as recommended by the National Institute of Standards & Technology [#NIST] & the #DHS's #CISA, as well as the #FBI & the #NSA.
"That was a huge red flag," said Berulis. "That's something that you just don't do. It violates every core concept of security & best practice."
Latest issue of my curated #cybersecurity and #infosec list of resources for week #15/2025 is out!
It includes the following and much more:
The U.S. Department of Justice has disbanded its National #Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit;
To tackle #espionage, Dutch government plans to screen university students and researchers;
Another busy #PatchTuesday;
#NIST will mark all CVEs published before January 1, 2018, as 'Deferred';
Trump Signs Memorandum Revoking Security Clearance of Former #CISA Director Chris Krebs;
#China Admitted to Volt Typhoon #Cyberattacks on US Critical Infrastructure;
Subscribe to the #infosecMASHUP newsletter to have it piping hot in your inbox every week-end 
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X’s InfoSec Newsletter🕵🏻♂️ [InfoSec MASHUP] 15/2025The U.S. Department of Justice has disbanded its National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit; To tackle espionage, Dutch government plans to screen university students and researchers; Another busy Patch Tuesday; NIST will mark all CVEs published before January 1, 2018, as 'Deferred'; Trump Signs Memorandum Revoking Security Clearance of Former CISA Director Chris Krebs; China Admitted to Volt Typhoon Cyberattacks on US Critical Infrastructure;
NIST SP-800-81: Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide initial public draft open for public comments.
CSRC | NIST · NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-81 Rev. 3 (Draft), Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment GuideThis document provides Domain Name System (DNS) deployment guidelines to secure the DNS protocol and infrastructure, mitigate misuse or misconfiguration, and provide an additional layer of network security as part of a zero trust and/or defense-in-depth security risk management approach. This introduction briefly discusses relevant context for DNS and examines the changing threat landscape that has warranted an updated approach to DNS deployment.
OpenSSH 10 relies on standards for quantum-safe key exchange
The DSA algorithm, which has been discontinued for years, is now disappearing completely from the secure remote shell, to be replaced by MLKEM768.
heise online · OpenSSH 10 relies on standards for quantum-safe key exchange
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OpenSSH 10 setzt auf Standards für quantensicheren Schlüsselaustausch
Der seit Jahren abgekündigte DSA-Algorithmus verschwindet nun vollständig aus der sicheren Remote-Shell, seine Nachfolge tritt MLKEM768 an.
heise online · OpenSSH 10 setzt auf Standards für quantensicheren Schlüsselaustausch
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Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/ #Manufacturing #Politics #USA #NIST #Business #Government
WIRED · Trump and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades
iX-Workshop IT-Sicherheit: Pentests methodisch planen, anfordern und analysieren
Schritt für Schritt zum sicheren System: Penetrationstests methodisch planen, beauftragen und auswerten, um Schwachstellen in der eigenen IT aufzuspüren.
heise online · iX-Workshop IT-Sicherheit: Pentests methodisch planen, anfordern und analysieren
"The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is discussing plans to eliminate an entire team responsible for publishing and maintaining critical atomic measurement data in the coming weeks, as the Trump administration continues its efforts to reduce the US federal workforce, according to a March 18 email sent to dozens of outside scientists. The data in question underpins advanced scientific research around the world in areas like semiconductor manufacturing and nuclear fusion.
“We were recently informed that unless there is a major change in the Federal Government reorganization plans, the whole Atomic Spectroscopy Group will be laid off in a few weeks, in particular, since our work is not considered to be statutorily essential for the NIST mission,” Yuri Ralchenko, the group's leader, wrote in the email, which was seen by WIRED.
Ralchenko noted that atomic spectroscopy has been used to discover many new exoplanets and develop powerful new diagnostic techniques, among other applications. “Unfortunately, the story of atomic spectroscopy at NIST is coming to an end,” he wrote."
https://www.wired.com/story/nist-doge-layoffs-atomic-spectroscopy/
WIRED · Trump Admin Plans to Cut Team Responsible for Critical Atomic Measurement Data
A Taxonomy of Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks and Mitigations
NIST just released a comprehensive taxonomy of adversarial machine learning attacks and countermeasures.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/a-taxonomy-of-adversarial-machine-learning-attacks-and-mitigations.html
Schneier on Security · A Taxonomy of Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks and Mitigations - Schneier on SecurityNIST just released a comprehensive taxonomy of adversarial machine learning attacks and countermeasures.
UK Sets Ambitious Timeline for Post-Quantum Cryptography Transition
As quantum computing threatens traditional encryption methods, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre lays out a roadmap for critical organizations to adopt post-quantum cryptography by 2035. This in...
https://news.lavx.hu/article/uk-sets-ambitious-timeline-for-post-quantum-cryptography-transition
“If you look at what China is doing and how it's using AI to literally control the lives of millions of Uyghurs. If you look at the surveillance state Chinese citizens live in, that does not represent America's core values and the ideals of the constitution” #nist
https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2025/03/future-us-digital-security-jeopardy-due-white-house-attacks-science-organization-officials-say/403750/
Defense OneFuture of US digital security in jeopardy due to White House attacks on science organization, officials sayCurrent and former cybersecurity officials say Trump administration attacks on key research centers will benefit China.
Under #Trump , #AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
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> translation, take out the safety barriers that will keep my people from misusing the technology.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-safety-institute-new-directive-america-first/
WIRED · Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
Quantum leap: Passwords in the new era of computing security
It’s more a case of building stronger locks to protect our important data and resources, rather than removing the locks altogether. By creating longer, more complex passwords built on greater sizes of hash keys, passwords will be more secure against attacks, even against quantum computing.
#NIST #quantum #quantumcomputing #encryption #passwords #security #cybersecurity #technology #tech #science
BleepingComputerQuantum leap: Passwords in the new era of computing securityQuantum computing threatens to break traditional encryption, putting sensitive data at risk. Learn more from Specops Software about the risks of quantum computing and how to prepare for them.
#NIST Finalizes Guidelines for Evaluating ‘#DifferentialPrivacy’ Guarantees to De-Identify Data
NIST · NIST Finalizes Guidelines for Evaluating ‘Differential Privacy’ Guarantees to De-Identify DataUsing differential privacy can help organizations glean useful insights from databases while protecting individuals’ data
NIST selects HQC as backup post
quantum cryptography algorithm in case there are issues with ML-KEM.
#cryptography #standards #nist #cryptomeanscryptography
#quantum #technology
NIST · NIST Selects HQC as Fifth Algorithm for Post-Quantum EncryptionThe new algorithm will serve as a backup for the general encryption needed to protect data from quantum computers developed in the future
Via a ridiculous path including an off-the-books meeting with a #NIST staffer comes news of a clever hack being perpetrated by the PFYs now running the US Department of Commerce.
DoC is not allowing certain notices from subsidiary organizations to be published in the Federal Register. Advisory committees to such as NIST must publish notice of meetings in order to follow the law.
Ergo, no meetings are possible, meaning not only cessation of work but that committees will die as terms expire.