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posted by Fnord666 on Friday September 27 2019, @09:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the cracker-jack dept.

The US Congress has, near enough, approved a law bill to create a new set of dedicated cyber-security teams within the Department of Homeland Security.

On Tuesday, the Senate passed S.315, also known as the DHS Cyber Hunt and Incident Response Teams Act of 2019, a bipartisan measure that funds the creation of both investigation and response teams at various agencies within the department.

According to co-sponsors Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Rob Portman (R-OH), the legislation is aimed to not only create teams for investigations within Homeland Security, but also outside using the private sector. In addition to creating these teams, the bill will authorize spending to bring in private companies when needed.

[...] Having passed the Senate, the bill heads to the House for final approval before being sent to be signed into law by the President. As The Hill notes, a passage in the House is likely, as the Senate bill is a modified version of one the House voted in favor of back in June.

[...] "Our cyber response teams play an important role in protecting against cyber threats, reducing cybersecurity risks, and helping to get our cyber infrastructure back up and running after an attack occurs," Portman said of the bill.

"I am glad the Senate passed our bipartisan legislation and I hope we send it to the president’s desk soon so that we can strengthen our response efforts in the event of a cyberattack."


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @12:56PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @12:56PM (#899542)

    Maybe, but it seems unlikely they will run out of targets.

    Folks who live in glass houses should not encourage rock throwing.

    They are doing just that from the biggest glass house around.
    They will have plenty to do to keep ahead of the response.

    In a sense, the plan seems self sustaining. It will create it's own actual bad guys.
    Of course, a side effect is the good guys now get to be in a war zone.
    Guess this might be better than something with actual bullets.

    So batten down the hatches by moving what you can off line.
    Should be great for showing the wisdom of the cloud stuff.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @03:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @03:59PM (#899610)

    "So batten down the hatches by moving what you can off line.
    Should be great for showing the wisdom of the cloud stuff."

    Perhaps that is the point. In the late 90's there was actually free speech. Now we are at the end of a phase where everyone has adapted to the fact that privacy no longer exists, and people are self regulating much more. And frankly a lot of the self regulation is out of fear.

    The next phase is to bully people offline, so that the big telecoms can disassemble the Internet and turn it back into a broadcast only system where the state tells everyone what to think. Where online communications can only occur through highly regulated heavily surveiled walled gardens.

    IOW a bunch of taxpayer funded black ops guys working for the cable cabal without state level legal oversight.

    8ch was a shithole, but it was also a canary.