Senators call on U.S. cyber officials to defend health sector
In a letter sent on Monday, Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal, Republican Senator Tom Cotton and three other senators asked the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Cyber Command to consider action against hackers who threatened the healthcare sector.
The letter urged the officials to consider operations to “defend forward” - a phrase often used as a euphemism for hacking.Cybersecurity concerns have been bubbling in the background as the novel coronavirus spreads across the world. Some cybersecurity experts have warned that hackers’ success rates are going up amid the economic turmoil and changing patterns of work triggered by the outbreak.
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