Officials also offered Nextgov updates on how the buildout of U.S. exascale machines is unfolding.

The Defense Department wants a vendor to manage the next phase of development for the insider threat program’s central database and case management.

Mokes Cross-Platform Malware discovered that can hack Windows, Linux and OS X Systems

Hidden database account discovered, patches finally available as well as mitigations

The flaw stems from an issue with the ingress packet processing function of Cisco IOS XR software.

Overall Google's Chrome 87 release fixed 33 security vulnerabilities.