The world’s largest meat processing company says it paid the equivalent of $11 million to hackers who broke into its computer system late last month.
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Read More »June 10, 2021 Comments Off on World’s largest meat processing company confirms it paid $11M ransom in cyberattack
The world’s largest meat processing company says it paid the equivalent of $11 million to hackers who broke into its computer system late last month.
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Read More »June 7, 2021 Comments Off on Most of ransom paid after Colonial Pipeline hack has been recovered, officials say
The Justice Department has recovered most of a multimillion-dollar ransom payment to hackers after a cyberattack that caused Colonial Pipeline to halt its operations, officials said.
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Read More »June 7, 2021 Comments Off on In war on ransomware, hurdles hinder US response
There are numerous technological, legal and diplomatic hurdles to going after ransomware gangs.
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Read More »June 1, 2021 Comments Off on US seizes domain names used in Russia-linked cyberespionage campaign
The Justice Department said Tuesday that it has seized two domain names used in a cyberespionage campaign that targeted U.S. and foreign government agencies, think tanks, and humanitarian groups.
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Read More »May 28, 2021 Comments Off on Latest Russian hack largely fended off, White House says
The White House says it believes U.S. government agencies largely fended off the latest cyberespionage onslaught blamed on Russia intelligence operatives.
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Read More »May 27, 2021 Comments Off on Pipelines ordered to assess cybersecurity after ransomware hack
U.S. pipeline operators will be required for the first time to conduct a cybersecurity assessment under a Biden administration directive in response to the ransomware hack of Colonial Pipeline.
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Read More »May 24, 2021 Comments Off on ZeroFOX details scope of cyber efforts to promote CARES Act fraud
Fears that bad actors would fraudulently apply for and receive CARES Act funds are not unfounded, Baltimore-based cybersecurity company ZeroFOX says in a new report.
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Read More »May 19, 2021 Comments Off on Report: Colonial confirms it paid $4.4M to pipeline hackers
The operator of the nation's largest fuel pipeline confirmed it paid $4.4 million to a gang of hackers who broke into its computer systems, according to a report Wednesday.
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Read More »February 19, 2021 Comments Off on Suspected Russian hack fuels new US action on cybersecurity
Jolted by a sweeping hack that may have revealed government and corporate secrets to Russia, U.S. officials are scrambling to reinforce the nation’s cyber defenses and recognizing that an agency created two years ago to protect America’s networks and infrastructure lacks the money, tools and authority to counter such sophisticated threats.
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Read More »February 24, 2020 Comments Off on UMD program teaches cybersecurity law to non-lawyers
With cybersecurity scandals becoming increasingly prevalent — the 2017 Equifax data breach is just one example — the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law is providing non-lawyers with the legal knowledge they need to prevent and handle ...
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