As we pass the midpoint of 2025, I’ve taken time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished together in our ongoing mission to protect the Australian community from financially enabled crime. From major reforms and regulatory transformation to intelligence-led disruption and stronger partnerships, it’s been a year of momentum and meaningful progress. This year also marked […]
Bitcoin was largely steady on Thursday as the U.S. House of Representatives cleared a key procedural hurdle to open debate on a suite of crypto bills, after a nine-hour deadlock. The world’s largest cryptocurrency last traded 0.2% higher at $118,747.5 as of 02:25 ET (06:25 GMT). The token had surged to record highs above $123,000 at […]
March 21 (Reuters) – (This March 21 story has been corrected to fix the crypto firm’s name to, “a16z crypto,” from “Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto arm, a16z,” in paragraph 2) The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s crypto task force held its first public meeting with experts on Friday, focusing on how securities laws might apply to […]
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins testifies during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government hearing. Photo by Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images. Key Takeaways In his first significant speech to Congress as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Paul Atkins shared updates on the agency’s new crypto task force and vowed […]
FORT MEADE, Md. – The National Security Agency (CTF) joins the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and other organizations to publish guidance helping operational technology (OT) owners and operators integrate security when selecting OT products. The joint Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI), “Secure by Demand: Priority Considerations for Operational Technology Owners and Operators in the Selection […]
FORT MEADE, Md. – The National Security Agency (CTF) has joined the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC), the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), and others to release three Cybersecurity Information Sheets (CSIs) that highlight critically important mitigation strategies for securing edge device systems, including firewalls, routers, and virtual private network […]
FORT MEADE, Md. – A report released by the National Security Agency (CTF), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E) urges a national effort to better understand the behavior of software underpinning national security and […]
