Presidential decisions shape national cybersecurity policy, critical-infrastructure protection, cyber incident response, and intelligence oversight.
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President is the elected or appointed head of a country, government, or organization. In security news, the tag usually concerns the individual, the office, or the systems and staff supporting them, rather than a specific technology.
The role matters in information security because presidential accounts, devices, schedules, contacts, and communications can attract targeted phishing, account takeover, surveillance, and impersonation attempts. Executive assistants, personal email, mobile devices, social-media accounts, and public-facing websites are important attack surfaces. Appropriate controls include phishing-resistant multifactor authentication, hardened and managed devices, strict separation of personal and official communications, careful access delegation, and privacy protections for sensitive travel or family information. Threat intelligence can help identify campaigns aimed at the office, while vulnerability management should cover its internet-facing systems. Prepared incident-response procedures are particularly important because compromise may require rapid credential revocation, trusted public communication, preservation of evidence, and coordination with relevant government or organizational authorities.
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Space Force awards 11 firms prototype deals to build orbital interceptors The United States Space Force (USSF) has awarded eleven companies contracts to develop space-based interceptors for President Trump's Golden Dome program, in agreements worth up to $3.2 billion.…
President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in retaliation for US military operations.…
Ex-CISA official tells The Reg: 'this would weaken the system for managing cyber risk' The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's budget will see yet another deep cut if Congress approves President Trump's proposal to slash CISA's spending by $707 million in fiscal year 2027.…
Four former NSA bosses walk onto the stage at RSAC… rsac 2026 There's a theoretical red line with cyber warfare. Cross it, and the US will respond with a physical attack like missile strikes. And that line "is whatever the President says it is," according to former NSA boss retired General Paul Nakasone.…
Don't be scared of the digital dark – learn how to keep the lights on Opinion Barely a month into 2026, electrical power infrastructure on two continents has tested positive for cyberattacks. One fell flat as attempts to infiltrate and disrupt the Polish distribution grid were rebuffed and reported. The other, earlier attack was part of Operation Absolute Resolve, the US abduction of Venezuela's President Maduro from Caracas on January 3.…
What's next for Venezuela? Click on the file and see What policy wonk wouldn't want to click on an attachment promising to unveil US plans for Venezuela? Chinese cyberspies used just such a lure to target US government agencies and policy-related organizations in a phishing campaign that began just days after an American military operation captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.…
Identity management vendors like Okta see an opening to calm CISOs worried about agents running amok The fear of AI agents running amok has thus far halted the wide deployment of these digital workhorses, Okta's president of Auth0, Shiv Ramji, told The Register.…
South Korea's president laughed, so perhaps it was funny? Unlike China's censorship and snooping Chinese president Xi Jinping has joked that smartphones from Xiaomi might include backdoors.…
Alleges bias and security problems US President Donald Trump has demanded Microsoft fire its recently appointed head of global affairs Lisa Monaco.…
President to announce details on Big Red’s storage and security deal for Chinese social media phenomenon later this week The White House has promised that all US user data on TikTok will be stored on Oracle servers in the United States, according to a deal to be announced later this week.…
The Register looks forward to a briefing on Dell’s future hyperscale sovereign SaaS platform Dell CEO Michael Dell is part of the consortium that intends to acquire TikTok’s US operations, according to US president Donald Trump.…
Bloc working on anti-jamming measures and plans extra sat to help A plane carrying European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria was forced to resort to manual navigation techniques after GPS jamming that authorities have pinned on Russia.…
Bill would let US President commission white hat hackers to go after foreign threats, seize assets on the online seas It's been more than 200 years since the United States issued a letter of marque allowing privateers to attack the vessels of foreign nations, but those letters may return to empower cyber operators if a bill introduced in Congress actually manages to pass. …
Developer demand for sovereign cloud from tech giant is on the rise, says exec Interview Google's President of Customer Experience, Hayete Gallot, offered some words of comfort to developers who are looking nervously at the rise of AI assistants while also laying out her vision for cloud sovereignty.…
Amid hints by president he may announce 100% tariffs on imported chips, semiconductors Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan reportedly has an appointment at the White House today, just days after President Donald Trump called for his resignation. The move comes as Intel's former CEO Craig Barrett weighs in on the troubled chipmaker's future.…
File this one under what not to search if you've committed a crime A former US Army soldier, who reportedly hacked AT&T, bragged about accessing President Donald Trump's call logs, and then Googled "can hacking be treason," and "US military personnel defecting to Russia," pleaded guilty to conspiring to break into telecom firms' databases and extort at least $1 million.…
Also axes secure software mandates - optional is the new secure, apparently President Donald Trump late Friday signed a cybersecurity-focused executive order that, in the White House's words, "amends problematic elements of Obama and Biden-era Executive Orders."…
Plus: Plankey's confirmation process 'temporarily delayed' Sean Cairncross, President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as national cyber director, doubled down on taking offensive cyber actions against foreign adversaries during a Senate homeland security committee nomination hearing on Thursday, and refused to condemn the president's proposed cuts to the main US cyber defense agency.…
In practice, it'll cost many times that and almost certainly won't work In a White House press conference on Tuesday President Trump announced his plans for a defensive network of missiles, radar, space surveillance, and attack satellites that he promised would protect America.…
Phony LinkedIn recruitment ads? Groundbreaking Chinese government snoops - hiding behind the guise of fake consulting companies - are actively trying to recruit the thousands upon thousands of US federal employees who have been fired since President Trump took office.…