Salt Typhoon Hacker endanger the National Guard Network of a State Army

Salt Typhoon Hacker endanger the National Guard Network of a State Army

The group was associated with ingredients in US mobile networks and the hacking of dozens of top-class US officials.

• From the last March, hackers who were connected to China have extensively affected the National Guard Network of the US state of Army. According to an intelligence memo of the June of the Ministry of Homeland Security, this is. It describes the penetration of the “Salz -Typhoon” group into the National Guard networks and the subsequent theft of sensitive data. According to DHS, Salt Typhoon's successful hack could undermine the efforts of the National Guard to protect the American critical infrastructure. The group was associated with ingredients in US mobile networks and the hacking of dozens of top-class US officials.
• The Democrats of the Senate want to strengthen the emergency functions of the Ministry of Veteran Affairs. For the law on the emergency responsibility of the VA on crises from VA, the VA would increase coordination with Fema during emergencies and rationalize the emergency management offices of VA. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) And Senate Committee, who lead VA Committee and Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), lead the legal template. They say that the latest natural disasters and the Covid 19 pandemic show that the Emergency reaction of the VA must be improved.
• Many federal forms, communications and websites will soon stop showing content that is not written in English. New guidelines of the Ministry of Justice describe the expectations of the Trump government to meet agencies to fulfill a recently carried out order that has been followed by English on the official language of the US -Doj that it will assess its own inventory to clear out existing services that are not in English. The department also exposes its website, which currently offers individuals with limited English skills. Doj recommended that agencies use AI to fill out areas in which multilingual support is required.
• The Trump administration will enable the federal employees who request religious accommodation to a limited amount of telework. The personnel management office said that the agencies emphasized that teleworking as appropriate accommodation for religious practices. These include Sabbath, planned prayers, services and religious holidays. It is a close conversion of the policy of Trump administration that the federal employees have to return to the office full -time. Opm's policy is a reaction to a judgment of the Supreme Court of 2023, which made it more difficult for employers to refuse religious accommodation.
• Federation employees have expanded the options for using carpools while traveling for the business. The General Services Administration renewed its state -wide ceiling purchase agreement with Uber for companies and added new options. As part of the BPA with an upper limit of 75 million US dollars, the changes include the lives of federal entrepreneurs, with the approval of the contractual officer, access to the carpools, and employees and contractors who are now traveling to overseas can order cars from the contract. Another new feature of the contract is that FEDS have access to vehicles with a high capacity in order to absorb larger groups for fixed office routes, parking spaces outside the location, training courses and much more.
• In 2024, the agencies set an all -time high for awards for small companies. For the second time in a row, the agencies have awarded more than 28% of all justified main contracts to small companies in the 2024 financial year. The Small Business Administration published its annual small business scorecard on Monday. It showed that the agencies spent $ 183.5 billion with small companies last year and exceeded the government's record in 2023 by $ 5 billion. At the same time, the agencies spent a record of 69.6 billion US dollars in small businesses in 2024, whereby they exceeded their former all-time high of $ 66.6 billion in 2023. A total of 21 out of 24 agencies received an “A” or “A+” for their individual scorecard, which means that they achieved at least 100% of the small business goals.
• The Republicans of the House will be aimed at several agencies for steep spending cuts next year. The National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Housing and Urban Development, on the other hand, around 25% cuts for their household budgets for 2026. This is according to the appropriation package that the Republicans of the Republicans presented at the beginning of this week. In some cases, the proposed cuts are not as steep as the Trump administration originally demanded. However, the GOP owners still want to give several agencies for the HR department much smaller assignments. The Committee on Means of the Senate, on the other hand, observes more modest changes for the budget of 2026.
• The Trump administration is returning new cybersecurity policies. The White House examines the next steps in the state efforts to use cyber security on Zero Trust. The Office for Management and Budget Director for Federal Cybersecurity is Nick Polk. “Zero Trust 2.0, we still have the exact strategy here, but can probably focus on certain initiatives that we can carry out for the entire government,” said Polk. OMB also reduces new guidelines for the purchase of unmanned aircraft and the introduction of cryptography after the quantum.
• President Trump has the next vice president of space operations. If it were confirmed, Bratton General Michael Guetlein, who was nominated, would follow the ambitious initiative “Raket defense in the Golden Dome missiles in the Pentagon”. Bratton currently serves as a deputy Space Operations of the Space Force for strategy, plans, programs and requirements. Previously, he led space training and standby command. As Vice President, Bratton would work with the head of the Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman. In addition, Trump typed General Thomas Bussiere to act as the next head of the Air Force.
• The version of the law on the version of the Law on Defense Policy 2026, which was adopted on Tuesday evening after a full day of the debate, advocates a salary increase of 3.5% for service members. The committee passed its version of the law on defense policy less than a week after the Committee of the Senate Armed Services had advanced its version of legislation. While the draft law focuses on the reform of the slow takeover processes of the Ministry of Defense, this also includes provisions that aim to improve the quality of life of the service members. The legislation approves $ 18 billion for military construction, including 1.5 billion US dollars especially for barracks, living space and childcare. It also expands the pilot program for childcare, which helps military families to cover the costs for full-time childcare in their houses by 2029. In order to improve access to medical services, the legislation reduces the threshold for travel gain for special care dates from 100 miles to 50 miles.

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