New White House cyber strategy pledges to ease regulations, ‘impose costs’ on bad actors

Collection of cybersecurity and tech policy developments: The U.S. White House released a new National Cyber Strategy emphasizing offensive cyber operations and efforts to ease regulatory burdens while imposing costs on malicious actors; Dutch intelligence warned of a global Russian state hacking campaign attempting to compromise Signal and WhatsApp accounts of government and military personnel; Iran remained under a multi-day national internet blackout amid civil unrest and international concern; Indonesia announced a social-media ban for under-16s starting late March; and the FBI disclosed a