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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

David Weinberg, staff director for Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, speaks during the FedScoop-produced Elastic Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C., on March 19, 2025. (EPNAC / Photos by Sergey Kolupaev)

Congress should re-up 2015 information-sharing law, top Hill staffer says

Lawmakers also need to take action on legislation to better harmonize federal cybersecurity regulations, Democrats’ staff director on a key Senate committee said.
A view of the Microsoft corporate logo in front of the Microsoft Office building on 41st street and 8th avenue on July 19, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Craig T Fruchtman/Getty Images)

Microsoft patches 57 vulnerabilities, including 6 zero-days

More than three-quarters of the vulnerabilities covered in the vendor’s monthly Patch Tuesday update are high-severity flaws.
Sean Plankey
Sean Plankey speaks at a Department of Energy event in 2018, while he was a cyber adviser at BP. (Argonne National Laboratory / Flickr)

Sean Plankey picked by Trump to be CISA director 

Plankey’s nomination fills the biggest remaining gap among cyber leaders in the second Trump administration.
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