Cybersecurity

The son of the former president made fun of Joe Biden for telling the Russians that 16 entities were "off limits" to cyber hacking.

The Secretary of State told La Republicca newspaper "it's up to Russia to decide" about its relationship with the U.S.

"It's almost like 'Minority Report,'" a U.S.military intelligence official told Newsweek, "where you can find a path of likely outcomes to build a reasonable conclusion, but unless a crime has been committed, it isn't a crime."

Cybercrime isn't going away anytime soon, and no one can afford to skimp on their cybersecurity protections.

A security system company hiring remote CCTV operators claims their business "provides 24 x 7 x 365 intelligent video-based surveillance and loss prevention services."

Americans now have more choices than ever before when it comes to upgrading their homes with the latest smart technology. However, recent security breaches across the nation have cybersecurity experts asking which products are worth the risk.

Stuart Madnick, director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan School of Management (CAMS), said that in terms of cybersecurity infrastructure, the higher education sector sits far behind the manufacturing and energy industries, which in turn fall a decade behind the nation's financial sector.

"It is the position of the U.S. government that we strongly discourage the payment of ransoms," said Eric Goldstein, a top cybersecurity official in the Department of Homeland Security.

With over 359,000 unfilled jobs, the U.S. has the greatest shortage of cybersecurity talent in the western world.

Justin Ehrenhofer of Monero Space Workgroup told Newsweek the community is disappointed that ransomware groups increasingly demand payment in Monero but understand why they do.

The FBI responded to the cyberattack by recovering millions of dollars' of bitcoin—though the cryptocurrency's price dipped afterwards.

The creation of the cybersecurity agency in Italy comes about a month after Draghi called for increased cybersecurity and spoke about possible interference from Russia.

"It's a moment of reckoning for our industry," Vasu Jakkal, Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Security, said. "(Solar Winds) was one of the most complex attacks we've seen, and that continues."

"There are a whole bunch of things we can do to prevent this activity from occurring, whether they pay the ransom or not, if they communicate and coordinate with law enforcement right out of the gate. That's the most important part," FBI Director Christopher Wray said.

"Technically, a lot of these tools that are being leveraged for ransomware are tools that were leaked from our own organization," one cybersecurity official told Newsweek on the condition of anonymity.

Congress must take the lead in protecting our government, our corporations and our citizens against one of the most pressing foreign threats to our national security.

A new directive from the Biden administration requires pipeline operators to conduct a cybersecurity assessment.

The danger is real, and the American people understand it, especially after everything we've been through during the pandemic.

We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the U.S. to fight for freedom of all people in all parts of the world.

The information of 4.5 million customers was leaked in a cyberattack on Asian airlines like Air India.

"Is anybody in Russia afraid of hitting us again?" the Republican senator said.

The current U.S. economic situation is becoming increasingly unsustainable. Annual deficits and the national debt can't keep rising endlessly as Modern Monetary Policy theorists suggest. Asset bubbles always burst.

The pipeline, which stretches more than 5,500 miles and carries 45 percent of the East Coast's supply of diesel, petrol and jet fuel, was taken offline over the weekend after a cyberattack.

The group of bipartisan attorneys general said kids under the age of 13 are "too young to navigate the complexities of what they encounter online," which includes predators.

It is imperative that space be deemed a strategic component of critical national infrastructure.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in March that ransomware "now poses a national security threat."

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"Google has exposed GAEN participants' private personal and medical information associated with contact tracing, including notifications to Android device users of their potential exposure to COVID-19," a complaint filed against the tech giant reads.

It is interesting that amid such heavy use of authoritarian tech, violation of privacy and 24 hour monitoring, some people prefer to fall for conspiracy theories about microchips in vaccines.