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The America COMPETES Act, released Tuesday by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., includes $52 billion in financial incentives to entice semiconductor manufacturers to set up shop in the United States.

The $6.8 million project is expected to align DoD with President Joe Biden's cybersecurity executive order while emphasizing data protection and newer technologies like secure access service edge (SASE) and software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WAN).

Excellus reported an 18-month systems’ hack in 2015, which impacted 10.5 million people. A proposed settlement requires the insurance giant to overhaul its security and data retention policies.

In 2020, EyeMed reported an email hack impacting 2.1 million patients. New York’s investigation into the healthcare data breach found a number of authentication and security findings.

The past year brought on or exacerbated several trends in IT security facing the U.S. financial industry. Going into the third year of this pandemic, the same cyberthreats are expected to continue and potentially escalate as adversaries are "waging war on the U.S.," according to researchers from Aite-Novarica Group.

It's too soon to determine whether Russia's crackdown on cybercriminals means its days of sheltering groups are over, experts say.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is considering mandating owners and operators of bulk electric systems to implement internal network security monitoring.

More than 5,000 health plan beneficiaries that discovered personal and protected health information was stolen are wondering what the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority was doing with their records in the first place, which in turn prompted a state investigation. Details point to failures that may not be exclusive to RIPTA: a lack of mechanisms in place to flag inappropriate sharing of personal information, and to delete that information when improperly received.