The lawsuit comes a day after a TSA official vigorously defended the practice as critical to “national security” in testimony to Congress. 

The agency has shed more than 700 jobs since 2025, including 89 at a lab responsible for testing and validating the government’s encryption.

The House Homeland Security Committee grilled Madhu Gottumukkala, the acting director of the agency, over cutbacks both broad and specific.

The legislation also includes mandates on election security funding and CISA staff levels, as well as an extension of a state and local cyber grant program.

In a scathing opinion, Judge David Carter called the federal government’s demands for unredacted voter data “unprecedented and illegal.”

“If I’m confirmed for this, I think my role is to be objective about that as that comes up, or if it continues to come up as…

A researcher who discovered the vulnerability said it was fixed in December, after he first reported it to the agency in September.

ANCHOR will restart conversations between government and industry around critical infrastructure security, with some changes around liability and other areas. 

President Donald Trump resubmitted his nomination Tuesday after it stalled in the Senate last year.

A Trump administration official endorsed a slate of congressional bills Tuesday targeting cybersecurity in the energy sector while touting the office’s new emphasis on AI-driven cyber defenses.…