Christian Vasquez

Christian covers industrial cybersecurity for CyberScoop News. He previously wrote for E&E News at POLITICO covering cybersecurity in the energy sector. Reach out: christian.vasquez at cyberscoop dot com

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White House to study open source software in critical infrastructure

Policy

Jen Easterly, director of the Homeland Security Department’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, testifies before the House (Select) Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Committee on Capitol Hill on January 31, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Easterly: Cybersecurity is a software quality problem

Cybersecurity

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – MARCH 20: In an aerial view, pools of water are visible at the East Bay Municipal Utility District Wastewater Treatment Plant on March 20, 2024 in Oakland, California. The Biden administration and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are warning states of possible cyberattacks on water systems after recents attacks including one by the Cyber Av3ngers, a group linked to the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, that targeted internet-facing programmable logic controllers at Pennsylvania’s Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

EPA ‘urgently’ needs to step up cybersecurity assistance for the water sector, GAO says

Government

The US Capitol in Washington, DC, on June 29, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Banking, oil and IT industry reps call on Congress to harmonize cyber regulations … again

Policy

A view of the monument to the first Ukrainian printer Ivan Fedorov during snowfall on November 28, 2023 in Lviv, Ukraine. (Photo by Les Kasyanov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)

Simple ‘FrostyGoop’ malware responsible for turning off Ukrainians’ heat in January attack

Threats

The Russian flag flies at the embassy’s compound in Washington, DC, on April 15, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Treasury sanctions Russian hackers that breached US water utilities

Government

Blue pipes going to an oil refinery. (Getty Images)

Ransomware attacks are hitting energy, oil and gas sectors especially hard, report finds

Threats

A visitor walks past the telecommunications giant AT&T’s logo at the Mobile World Congress (MWC), the telecom industry’s biggest annual gathering, in Barcelona on February 27, 2023. (Photo by PAU BARRENA/AFP via Getty Images)

Phone, text message records of ‘nearly all’ AT&T customers stolen

Threats

Digital money transaction. (Getty Images)

White House wants to boost cyber funds for fiscal 2026

Workforce