Ryan Lovelace

Biden urges critical infrastructure organizations to improve cybersecurity

President Biden is urging critical infrastructure entities to improve their cybersecurity amid an onslaught of hacks and attacks against industries that are key to national security and the economy.

July 28, 2021

Senate Democrat rips Biden’s handling of critical infrastructure cybersecurity

Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island is furious with the federal government's management of critical infrastructure cybersecurity and blasted the Biden administration's touted accomplishments on Tuesday.

July 27, 2021

Grassley presses FBI to explain its monitoring of conservative women’s group

Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, is pressing the FBI to explain the reasoning for its newly revealed probe into the conservative group Concerned Women for America (CWA), The Washington Times has learned.

July 26, 2021

Kansas City mayor: ‘Young men of color’ weak point in boosting vaccination rate

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas says his city is looking to boost its coronavirus vaccination rate by diminishing vaccine hesitancy among young men of minority ethnicities.

July 25, 2021

Pelosi pledges to hold up infrastructure bill, as Portman says Senate is nearing a deal

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reasserted her authority Sunday on Capitol Hill by throwing a wrench into the roughly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan and lobbying for another anti-Trump Republican to join her panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

July 25, 2021

Pelosi appoints Kinzinger to Jan. 6 investigation committee

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she plans to ask Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Illinois Republican, to serve on the committee that will probe the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

July 25, 2021

Majority of Americans view future negatively, pessimism soars since May, poll shows

The majority of Americans say they feel pessimistic about the country's future over the next 12 months, according to a new poll.

July 25, 2021

Lawmakers position U.S. to become the galaxy’s garbage man as space trash piles up

Congress is now poised to make the U.S. the galaxy's garbage man in the 21st century. Legislation working its way through Congress would fund the development of new capabilities to track space trash and establish a federal office to monitor trash and other objects in space.

July 23, 2021

Rubio, Warner lead bipartisan effort to force companies to disclose cyber hacks to the public

A bipartisan group of lawmakers led by Sen. Mark Warner, Virginia Democrat, and Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, is pushing legislation to force federal agencies, government contractors and critical infrastructure entities to disclose breaches of their cyber defenses.

July 21, 2021

Feds detail alleged Chinese cyberattacks on American pipelines starting in 2011

The Biden administration has revealed new details of Chinese cyberattacks on American critical infrastructure starting nearly a decade ago, amid an ongoing effort to expose what the U.S. and its allies say is the extent of China's malicious cyber actions aimed at the U.S. and other foreign targets.

July 21, 2021

‘Criminal contract hackers’: China, Iran, Russia enlist more high-tech gangsters for cyberattacks

Rogue governments are increasingly outsourcing cyberattacks to criminals in the borderless domain of cyberspace to wreak havoc on the U.S. and across the world.

July 21, 2021

‘Reminiscent of the Obama administration’: Cyberattackers ignore Biden’s red lines

President Biden's tough talk against cyberattacks from Russia has not stopped an onslaught of ransomware and hacks hitting the U.S., according to cybersecurity professionals.

July 18, 2021

Google discovers Russian hackers using LinkedIn to target government officials

Google's Threat Analysis Group has revealed that Russian hackers used LinkedIn messages to target government officials who owned Apple devices.

July 15, 2021

Federal elections panel sued over alleged weakening of voting system standards

A left-leaning watchdog group has sued the U.S. Election Assistance Commission over allegations that the federal panel weakened the security standards for voting systems this year after unlawful secret meetings with voting machine manufacturers.

July 14, 2021

Dem lawmaker urges Biden to put new sanctions on Russia over ransomware attacks

Rep. Jim Langevin, Rhode Island Democrat, is calling on President Biden to implement new sanctions on Russia over the spate of ransomware attacks afflicting the U.S.

July 13, 2021

U.S. intel officials rely on private sector for artificial intelligence to outcompete China

The intelligence community officials say they are turning to the private sector to make advances in artificial intelligence deemed necessary to outcompete China and other adversarial nations.

July 12, 2021

FCC lifts rules so Amazon can build radar devices to track users’ sleep

The Federal Communications Commission waived its rules so Amazon can build radar sensors that the company says would be used to track people's sleep.

July 12, 2021

REvil’s hit on defense contractor tests Biden’s tough talk on cyberattacks

The REvil cybergang hit a defense contractor whose customers include the U.S. military in a brash test of President Biden's tough talk seeking to deter cyberattackers bombarding America.

July 8, 2021

Dozens of states, D.C. sue Google over practices in app store

State attorneys general from 36 states and D.C. filed a new antitrust lawsuit against Google on Wednesday.

July 7, 2021

Trump announces lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook and Google

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is suing the leadership of Facebook, Google and Twitter, which have banned him from their social media platforms.

July 7, 2021