Trump’s DHS pick urges more coordination on cyberthreats

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Homeland Security chief wants to forge closer ties with the private sector in the cyber arena. Gen. John F. Kelly (Ret.), a more than four-decade veteran of the Marine Corps, appeared this week before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for his confirmation hearing, the second of Trump’s…

NSA Chief Says DNC Email Leak Was Deliberate Act

In some of the most unequivocal comments on the issue so far, the director of the National Security Agency (NSA) Michael Rogers this week labeled the leak of emails belonging to the Democratic National Committee in July as a deliberate action by a state actor with specific motives. Rogers, who also heads the US Cyber…