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Russian Interference in 2016 Election Prompted Better Information Sharing, Top DHS Cyber Official Says (Shannon Vavra, Cyberscoop)
There was a time when the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security primarily kept to themselves when it came to information sharing. That time is in the past.
Two top government cybersecurity officials — Director of DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Chris Krebs, and Anne Neuberger, the director of the NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate — said Monday that information sharing and collaboration on cybersecurity issues has dramatically improved in recent years.
Why has the relationship improved? Krebs said he attributes the bolstered collaboration between DHS and the NSA to “the 2016 election” and “interference by the Russians” in that year’s presidential election.

“Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior”: Facebook haunts U.S. Democracy (Damien Spry, The Interpreter)
Facebook has gone through the motions of fighting disinformation, but not enough to matter – or to risk its profits.

White-Supremacist Violence Is Terrorism (John R. Allen, The Atlantic)
As commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, I fought America’s enemies abroad. Now we must fight violent, hateful ideologies at home.

U.K. to Ban Neo-Nazi Sonnenkrieg Division as a Terrorist Group (Jamie Grierson, Guardian)
Home secretary’s decision comes after meeting of Proscription Review Group

As Domestic Terrorists Outpace Jihadists, New U.S. Law Is Debated (Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times)
Even as the menace from homegrown extremists grows more explicit, law enforcement is wrestling with how to combat it.

Will Flying Cars Help the U.S. Beat China? The Air Force Hopes So (Patrick Tucker, Defense One)
Service officials say giving American manufacturers first-mover advantage is just as important as the military benefits of vertical-lift buses.

Coronavirus Fears in Connecticut Include Whether State Could Run Out of Protective Supplies (Christine Dempsey, Christopher Keating, and Russell Blair, Hartford Courant)
In a letter to federal and state officials, Michael Spera, president of the Connecticut Emergency Management Association and the Old Saybrook police chief, said the organization is concerned that they will run out of masks, gloves and gowns.