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Along with the shutdown, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 lapsed, making it now more complex for organizations to share threat info with the government and their peers.
Check out my CSO piece on this development. Thanks to Nathaniel Jones, Mike Hamilton, and Ari Schwartz for their insight.
CISA 2015 cyber threat info-sharing law lapses amid government shutdown

CISA 2015 cyber threat info-sharing law lapses amid government shutdown
The expiration of a landmark cybersecurity law strips liability protections for cyber threat information sharing, leaving US cyber defenses weaker until lawmakers act.

One of the world’s premier security organizations has canceled the results of its annual leadership election
-- after an official lost an encryption key needed to unlock results stored in a verifiable and privacy-preserving voting system.
The International Association of Cryptologic Research (IACR) said Friday that the votes were submitted and tallied using Helios,
an open source voting system that uses peer-reviewed cryptography to cast and count votes in a verifiable, con…

Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.
Voting system required three keys. One of them has been “irretrievably lost.”…