
Ransomware Attack Affects Hundreds of Businesses
The attack centered on a Florida-based technology company called Kaseya.
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The attack centered on a Florida-based technology company called Kaseya.
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Joseph Blount told senators that authorizing the payment to hackers was the right thing to do to bring an end to the pandemonium and fuel shortages.
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He's expected to tell members of the Senate Homeland Security Committee how his company responded when it was hit by a major cyberattack last month.
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It's the first operation undertaken by a specialized ransomware task force created by the Biden administration Justice Department.
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Hackers who breached the computer systems reportedly have ties to the Chinese government.
The company told U.S. authorities about a ransom demand from a criminal organization likely based in Russia.
JBS USA said the attack hit some of its servers in North America and Australia.
It will require pipeline companies to report cyber incidents to the federal government.
Researchers say your data is sent all around the world. And Instagram is the biggest culprit.
The hack led to the pipeline being closed for days, which caused panics and gas shortages in the southeastern U.S.
The hackers had demanded $5 million in ransom pay.
The order removes barriers to the private sector sharing information about hacks with the federal government.
The Colonial Pipeline Company says it will take time for normal fuel flow to resume across the Southeast, and panic-buying is hastening outages.
A cyberattack forced the U.S. pipeline to shut down.
Facebook said it knew about this issue in 2019 and had fixed it the same year.
House Bill 21-1107 would let public health workers remove private information from certain state websites if they are being threatened.
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President-elect Biden blamed the current administration for allowing it to happen in the first place.
Federal authorities say a hack into U.S. government computer systems poses a grave threat to the country.
Chris Krebs, former election security chief under President Trump, tells Senate panel that claims of widescale voter fraud have "got to stop."
"I'm here to stop this horrible nightmare that I see as a next generation version of what I started," says Anonymous hacker Aubrey Cottle.
Hackers defaced the site's homepage and solicited cryptocurrency payments.
Microsoft says several countries are trying to influence the U.S. election through cyberattacks.
City departments, including police, won't be able to use the technology starting in January.
In the first half of 2020, TikTok amassed 184.7 million downloads in the U.S., making it the second-most downloaded app behind Zoom.
The "Privacy Shield" agreement allowed thousands of companies to transfer EU citizens' data to the United States.
Robert Williams' case sheds light on how facial recognition algorithms make far more false identifications of Black and Asian faces than White ones.
Experts say we need 30 contact tracers per 100,000 people. In many places, staff counts are well below that. Departments are hiring in the thousands.
Drones can provide a safe way for first responders to interact with potentially infected individuals. But the devices may also pose privacy concerns.
The FCC said it wants the nation's four biggest wireless carriers to pay more than $200 million in fines to settle allegations of privacy violations.
A hacking forum posted the information this week from a breach that occurred last summer.