Cybersecurity and Cyberwarfare

Strengthening California’s defenses against emerging artificial intelligence-enabled cyber threats, Governor Gavin Newsom announced a first-in-the-nation initiative to protect state assets and critical infrastructure while advancing responsible AI innovation.

The Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau announces the conditional approval of two additional Cybersecurity Label Administrators for the Federal Communications Commission’s voluntary cybersecurity labeling program for consumer wireless Internet of Things products and reiterates program obligations. The Bureau finds that the following entities meet the Commission’s program criteria and requirements and conditionally approves each to serve as a CLA:

The Federal Communications Commission proposes to prohibit the continued importation and marketing of certain previously authorized equipment that has been determined to “pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons”. Such prohibitions would apply to the advertising, distribution, and sale of such equipment. In particular, we propose to apply such prohibitions to certain communications and video surveillance equipment listed in section 1709 of the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Aut

Almost every day, there is a new story about how OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta are losing control of the AI technology you are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results. We recently learned, frighteningly, that AI has been used for the first time ever to create new viruses. As you know, this type of development, in the wrong hands, could lead to new bioweapons that result in the deaths of tens of millions of people. In July, the world found out OpenAI lost control of an AI model. The result? The model hacked into another company’s computers—a clear violation of federal law.

Apparently, the Trump administration’s new guidelines for powerful artificial-intelligence tools exempt open models made by U.S. companies, a gap that marks the White House’s latest bid to ensure AI tools are safe without slowing down innovation. Under a framework that administration officials discussed with executives from leading AI companies, only makers of closed, proprietary U.S.

In the fall of 2024, the “Salt Typhoon” campaign—a cyber-espionage operation directed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC)—infiltrated the core of America’s telecommunications backbone, breaching the networks of multiple major American telecommunications companies and internet service providers.

Updating California’s roadmap for protecting the state government from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced the release of an updated strategy—known as Cal-Secure 2.0—to protect the state against new online threats, including artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cyberattacks. Building on California’s first statewide cybersecurity st

The Federal Communications Commission's Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau maintains a list of equipment and services (Covered List) that have been determined to “pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons.” The Executive Branch interagency body established a process by which entities producing routers in foreign countries can request the Department of War (DoW) or the Department of Homeland Security to evaluate whether such devices do not pose unacceptable risks to national security and receive Conditi

The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau maintains a list of equipment and services that have been determined to “pose an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security and safety of United States persons. The Commission has updated the Covered List to reflect the Conditional Approvals that we have received from the Department of War exempting the following routers from the Covered List:

Three widely respected European news outlets published the results of an investigation into what they described as a “joint plan” by China and Russia to “defeat Elon Musk’s Starlink.” The Insider, Der Spiegel, and Le Monde reviewed a cache of documents detailing growing military cooperation between China and Russia. The documents covered discussions between the nuclear powers on integrated air and missile defense systems, autonomous “swarm” loitering munitions, next-generation armored vehicles, and military aviation.