Professor Michael Greenberger is the Founder and Director of the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security (CHHS) and a Law School Professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Since joining the School of Law in 2001, Professor Greenberger designed and teaches two courses focused on counterterrorism and emergency response.
Hackers working for the Chinese government attempted to breach computer systems of dozens of U. S. pipeline companies over the last decade, the Biden administration disclosed this week, as the White House stepped up public efforts to counter cyberattacks by foreign adversaries and strengthen protections against them.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s administration has leaned heavily on emergency government spending powers to purchase nearly $1.5 billion in services and supplies during the coronavirus pandemic, covering the cost of everything from gloves to consultants.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Sunday.
Cybersecurity
The ability to do these cyber interruptions has unlimited ability to cause disruptions in the United States... This really is a warlike situation.
Public Health/Emergency Declarations
The state of emergency is what allowed Hogan to declare mask mandates and forestall evictions, as well as buy products and services “without crossing all the T’s and dotting all the I’s,” said Michael Greenberger, director of the University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security.
There will be a lot of legislatures rethinking the power, and some already are. And there is no question that people are entitled to know what happened and how it worked out.