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Kemba Walden, the former acting national cyber director, said that a ransom payment ban is the ultimate goal.
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At issue is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which authorizes snooping that some consider vital to security and others view as an out-of-control privacy threat.
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The agency sees ways that AI could help protect cyber networks, but also ways it could be an ethical quagmire or a tool for enemies of the United States.
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At the world’s largest industrial cybersecurity conference, Beijing’s operations targeting U.S. critical infrastructure was just one concern among many.
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The president’s budget is unlikely to be passed but offers insights on the administration’s priorities ahead of this fall’s election.
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Medical providers are under financial pressure and patients are facing challenges in filling prescriptions due to the ransomware attack.
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Officials from the FBI and DHS say generative AI has so far yielded more benefits for cybersecurity practitioners than malicious hackers.
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The administrators of the prolific ransomware strain say they are back online after law enforcement took down their infrastructure last week.
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After taking down the world’s most prolific ransomware group, a police messaging campaign is trying to undermine its leaders.
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An international law enforcement operation on Monday seized servers and disrupted the infrastructure used by the LockBit ransomware syndicate, a government official confirmed to CyberScoop after websites used by the ransomware group displayed messages that they had been seized. An operation carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the UK’s National Crime Agency […]
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