Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 15, 2021

Cybersecurity News Round-Up: Week of November 15, 2021



  • November 19, 2021

  • Amy Krigman





  • Hello and welcome back to our blog. This week, there seems to be an abundance of stories that involve government in some way.


    The biggest story of the week actually took place last weekend. That is when hackers were able to compromise the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) external email system. The FBI said in a statement that fake emails were sent from its Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal system on Saturday, November 13th and were used to communicate with state and local officials. The spam emails may have been sent to thousands of people and companies with a warning of a non-existent cyberattack. Fortunately, “No actor was able to access or compromise any data or (personally identifiable information) on FBI’s network,” the bureau said. “Once we learned of the incident we quickly remediated the software vulnerability, warned partners to disregard the fake emails, and confirmed the integrity of our networks.” As always, the great Brian Krebs’ breaks it all down here


    In other news…


    On Monday, President Biden signed a $1 trillion infrastructure bill into law that includes nearly $2 billion for cybersecurity and related provisions. The biggest piece of digital security funding is a Federal Emergency Management Agency cyber grant program, administered in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, that would distribute $1 billion over four years to state and local governments. An additional $21 million would go toward the Office of the National Cyber Director. 


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