{"id":220457,"date":"2026-03-05T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/when-congress-gets-hacked-why-cyber-oversight-cant-wait\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T01:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T06:35:08","slug":"when-congress-gets-hacked-why-cyber-oversight-cant-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/when-congress-gets-hacked-why-cyber-oversight-cant-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"When Congress gets hacked: Why cyber oversight can\u2019t wait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/03\/when-congress-gets-hacked-why-cyber-oversight-cant-wait\/\">When Congress gets hacked: Why cyber oversight can\u2019t wait<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/03\/when-congress-gets-hacked-why-cyber-oversight-cant-wait\/\">https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/03\/when-congress-gets-hacked-why-cyber-oversight-cant-wait\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-05 21:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"federalnewsnetwork.com\">federalnewsnetwork.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:smaller; color:#666666; margin-bottom: 1rem;\">There is an urgent need for stronger congressional leadership in cyber policy, especially when it comes to countering China\u2019s persistent, aggressive intrusions.<\/p>\n<p>                            Andrew Grotto<\/p>\n<p>\n                                    <span class=\"Entry-date__date\">March 5, 2026<\/span> <span class=\"Entry-date__time\">4:24 pm<\/span>                                <\/p>\n<p>4 min read<\/p>\n<p>In January, news broke that a notorious People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) cyber espionage campaign called Salt Typhoon compromised email systems used by House of Representatives staffers. The affected systems included the committees responsible for monitoring and countering China\u2019s influence, including the China, Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Armed Services committees.<\/p>\n<p>Congress is more than just a victim, however. It also has a constitutional responsibility to ensure that cyber laws and budgets are adequate to support the nation\u2019s cyber defenses, and to be transparent about its own cyber challenges. In line with the president\u2019s anticipated cybersecurity strategy, there is an urgent need for stronger congressional leadership in cyber policy, especially when it comes to countering China\u2019s persistent and aggressive intrusions into U.S. infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Congress should&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/03\/when-congress-gets-hacked-why-cyber-oversight-cant-wait\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Congress gets hacked: Why cyber oversight can\u2019t wait https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/commentary\/2026\/03\/when-congress-gets-hacked-why-cyber-oversight-cant-wait\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-05 21:16:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/federalnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2163464821.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220459,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220457\/revisions\/220459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}