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As President Trump prepares to depart on his first foreign trip in office, Rep. Ted Lieu offered his thoughts on what the president should keep in mind.
The U.S. government took the first steps toward codifying the Vulnerabilities Equities Process into law yesterday through the introduction of the Protecting Our Ability to Counter Hacking (PATCH) Act of 2017.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement given the breaking news that US forces carried out airstrikes on pro-government forces in Syria.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the House passed the Modernizing Government Technology Act, legislation Mr. Lieu cosponsored that the Obama White House previously outlined as one component of the Cybersecurity National Action Plan.
The Justice Department decision to name former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel for the investigation into possible collusion between members of the Trump administration and Russia, as well as the firing of former FBI Director James Comey, was widely applauded by lawmakers and officials with a few exceptions, most notably Donald Trump, who tweeted his displeasure Thursday after being kept in the dark until less than an hour before the Justice Department announ
Today a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced in both the House and Senate a bill that would formalize the Vulnerability Equities Process (VEP) into law. The proposed legislation, the Protecting our Ability To Counter Hacking (PATCH) Act, is sponsored by Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) (all members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation) and Representatives Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) and Blake Farenthold (R-Texas).
Exploits developed by the National Security Agency are very likely at the core of a destructive breed of the WannaCry malware that is wreaking havoc around the globe.
The release of NSA tools into the wild by the Shadow Brokers group has raised concerns about the process by which IT vulnerabilities discovered by NSA hackers are shared with software and hardware vendors.