White House Rushes to Finish Cyber Order After China Hacks
- Executive order includes authentication, encryption updates
- Draft comes after attackers breached US Treasury data
Chinese state-sponsored hackers broke into the computers of senior US Treasury Department leaders as part of a recent breach of the agency.
Photographer: Samuel Corum/BloombergThe Biden administration is racing to put out an executive order meant to shore up US cybersecurity in its dwindling days in office, according to four people familiar with the matter.
The executive order, which has cleared some internal hurdles and is close to being published, incorporates lessons from a series of major breaches during the Biden administration, including the most recent Treasury Department hack attributed to China, according people familiar with the matter who didn’t want to be named to discuss information that hasn’t yet been made public.