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Brandon Wales, then-Acting Director Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency at U.S. Department of Homeland Security speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis-Pool/Getty Images)

Brandon Wales reflects on 20 years of cyber as he leaves CISA

SolarWinds, election security and protecting federal networks were among the highlights, he said in an interview with CyberScoop.
A medical worker prepares a dose of the Sinopharm Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on November 25, 2021. – China OUT (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Meta scrubbed a fake scientist’s account that spread bogus COVID-19 claims

Facebook removed 524 inauthentic Facebook accounts, 20 pages, four Groups and 86 Instagram accounts boosting the claims.
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A sign for the National Security Agency (NSA), U.S. Cyber Command and Central Security Service, is seen near the visitor’s entrance to the headquarters of the NSA at the entrance in Fort Meade, Maryland, February 14, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

NSA, CISA share guidelines for securing VPNs as hacking groups keep busy

"VPN servers are entry points into protected networks, making them attractive targets," said an NSA official.
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