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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."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @09:58AM (1 child)
Will Trump see this as a threat to his re-election efforts and veto it?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Friday September 27 2019, @10:22AM
"People will love you if you sign this bill. In fact, they'll tell everyone not to impeach you! I know you'll do the right, courageous, smart, handsome thing."
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @10:08AM (2 children)
Bully Hunters.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @01:25PM (1 child)
I'm betting on HIRT Teams (as in Hunt and Incident Response Team Teams).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @04:42PM
Fast Analysis Response Teams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @10:43AM (7 children)
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/26/763545811/how-the-u-s-hacked-isis [npr.org]
Here's how the thugs who are going to fuck your life up will act.
When they run out of groups like ISIS to target, they will hit people discussing science, privacy software, memes, whatever the new evil is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @12:56PM (1 child)
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
"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.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday September 27 2019, @02:11PM (4 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @03:12PM (3 children)
You could have almost finished the sub by the time you made that comment!
Recurse here.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday September 27 2019, @04:55PM (2 children)
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Friday September 27 2019, @07:08PM (1 child)
Ha ha! Funny! The very idea of janrinok publishing submissions! Ha ha ha!!
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday September 28 2019, @11:14AM
Even funnier, the idea that janrinok might actually allow any submissions critical of the alt-right, the New Right, the Alternative for Europe, or that racist fuck Brit party, what's it called? Manchester United? No, they are fine blokes! England for Danes? No, that is so Tenth Century. The ferking racist goddamned bloody Tories! [independent.co.uk]
Most of them are Angles, not Britons or Icenii or Gaels or Welsh or Cornish or even Saxons or the Dark Irish. Bloody Germanics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @12:24PM (1 child)
The biggest cyber threat of them all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @01:42PM
Speaking of Red Hat asshattery:
They exerted their control over the SCAP Security Guide project to remove the CentOS security profiles: https://github.com/ComplianceAsCode/content/issues/3743 [github.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @03:33PM
wat dat?
(Score: 2, Funny) by CheesyMoo on Friday September 27 2019, @03:33PM (1 child)
Most of the cyber security crowd I know prefers ritalin and speed to crack... however there was that one guy whose pipe always smelled a bit funny...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @09:09PM
Hey, this is no place for that kind of innuendo!
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday September 27 2019, @04:43PM
Department of Homeland Security is essentially Israel at this point.
Respond to this with the names of anyone appointed to this commitee, or heading DHS and we will see if any of them are zionists.
Enought security theater, DHS has been power grab of the executive from the very beginning and Israel is trying to use this window to take over the brain of every aspect of american cultural hegemony including voting, so we Actual Americans have to stop them or admit our flag is a farce.
I have no more patience for the kabuki.
decultification.org
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 27 2019, @11:17PM
Now that we have our Digital CIA, I assume we can look forward to our Digital Vietnam ..