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Tonya Riley

Tonya Riley

Reporter & Researcher at The Washington Post

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  • Technology
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Poly Network offers bug bounty to hacker who stole $600 million worth of cryptocurrency - CyberScoop

Poly Network is offering the hacker that stole $600 million worth of virtual currencies from the company a half-million dollars as a bug bounty, the company said Friday. Poly Network said that as of early Friday morning the hacker had returned roughly $340 million worth of assets they stole from the…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Senate fails to amend cryptocurrency reporting requirements, moving...

The Senate stopped short Monday of passing an amendment that would have altered language in the current $1 trillion infrastructure bill to narrow the definition of parties that will be required to report cryptocurrency sales to the Internal Revenue Service. Senators failed to reach unanimous consent…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

DHS boss Mayorkas encourages hackers to join government during Blac...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas encouraged attendees at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference to collaborate with the agency on defining the future of cybersecurity policy. “We need your creativity, your ideas, your boldness, and your willingness to push limits. We need…
over 3 years ago
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Facebook stops NYU researchers from examining misinformation, is cr...

Facebook shut down the accounts of researchers at New York University’s Ad Observatory who were studying misinformation, saying the team of experts had violated the company’s policies on automated collection of user data. The researchers argue that the social media giant shut down their access becau…
over 3 years ago
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Hackers are using CAPTCHA techniques to scam email users - CyberScoop

More email users fell for scams using CAPTCHA technology in 2020, a new report from security firm Proofpoint shows. The technique, which uses a visual puzzle to help authenticate human behavior, received 50 times as many clicks in 2020 compared to 2019. That’s still only a 5% overall response rate, …
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Federal agencies are failing to protect sensitive data, Senate repo...

Of eight federal agencies audited for their cybersecurity programs, only the Department of Homeland Security showed improvements in 2020, according to a report from the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Released by the panel on Tuesday, the report expresses concerns about …
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Popular technology that hospitals use to send lab samples is vulner...

A key technology that hospitals use to deliver medications, blood and other vital lab samples are at significant risk of hacking, new findings suggest. Researchers from the security vendor Armis found nine critical vulnerabilities in the control panel that powers the Translogic pneumatic tube system…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Biden issues memo to push critical infrastructure cybersecurity upg...

President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed a national security memorandum tasking a group of federal agencies to develop cybersecurity performance goals for critical infrastructure. The directive is the latest effort from the Biden administration to get critical industries on board with improving cyber…
over 3 years ago
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Cyber job listings excluded Colorado workers after salary transpare...

Dozens of technology companies, including several cybersecurity firms, have excluded remote workers in Colorado from searches for job candidates since a state law requiring pay transparency in job listings went into effect. CyberScoop identified at least five cybersecurity firms or tech companies wi…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Average ransomware payment declined by 38% in second quarter of 202...

The tides may be starting to turn on the ransomware epidemic, new industry findings show. The average ransomware payment declined to $136,576 in the second quarter of 2021, according to numbers published Friday by ransomware response firm Coveware. The company did not share how many companies that d…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

New legislation would boost the FTC’s role in fighting ransomware -...

A new bill could direct the Federal Trade Commission’s international efforts towards taking on ransomware. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce consumer protection subcommittee, filed legislation Tuesday that would require the agency to report the number o…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Amnesty sues NYPD, seeking details about facial recognition technol...

Two watchdog groups sued the New York Police Department over the agency’s refusal to disclose public records about its acquisition of facial recognition technology and other surveillance tools. The lawsuit, filed by Amnesty International and Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, could force the…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

US government launches plans to cut cybercriminals off from cryptoc...

The White House on Thursday announced a flurry of actions launched by a new interagency task force to combat ransomware. The updates on the White House’s plan to tackle ransomware comes on the heels of the third major ransomware attack to pose a serious threat to the U.S. national security in as man…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Kaseya hit with suspected cyberattack, raising fears of major suppl...

IT and security management services company Kaseya reported an attack against a “small number” of customers Friday afternoon, but a bigger supply chain incident might be afoot heading into the July 4 holiday weekend. The attack, which some researchers believe to be the work of ransomware group REvil…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

US watchdog urges federal law enforcement to better track facial re...

More than a dozen U.S. federal agencies where law enforcement officers use facial recognition technology are unable to account for which systems their employees use, according to a federal watchdog report released Tuesday. The U.S. Secret Service, Customers and Border Protection and the FBI are amon…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Senate fails to confirm new CISA director before two-week break, dr...

The Senate’s failure to confirm a new director for DHS’s top cybersecurity agency before the chamber goes on a two-week recess has raised ire from cybersecurity leaders who say the role is too important to leave unfilled. President Joe Biden nominated Jen Easterly, a former U.S. National Security Ag…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Craig Newmark Philanthropies donated $450k to boost anti-ransomware...

The Institute for Security and Technology received a $450,000 donation from Craig Newmark Philanthropies to continue its work combatting ransomware, the organization shared first with CyberScoop. The money will go towards continuing the work started by the Ransomware Task Force, a public-private col…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Chris Inglis confirmed as first US national cyber director after Se...

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Chris Inglis as the new White House cyber czar, a role it enacted into law late last year. The new role will play a key part in coordinating the government response to major hacks and other cybersecurity threats. Inglis takes on the position as the U.S. has dealt wit…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Top tech critic Lina Khan named FTC chair - CyberScoop

Just hours after the Senate confirmed Columbia law professor Lina Khan as the new Democratic commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, the Biden administration reportedly picked her to run the agency. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., first noted Khan’s selection as FTC chair in a Senate Judiciary an…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Hackers reportedly used EA Games’ Slack to breach network, access s...

Hackers who reportedly stole valuable source code from games company Electronic Arts did so by first infiltrating the company’s Slack, a representative for a group claiming credit for the attack told Motherboard. For just $10, the hackers purchased a cookie that allowed them to infiltrate the $5 bil…
over 3 years ago
cyberscoop.com

Emerging ‘Prometheus’ ransomware claims 30 victims in a dozen count...

A new ransomware group claims to have breached 30 organizations in government, financial services, health care services, and energy firms in the United States, United Kingdom, and a dozen more countries, according to Palo Alto Networks research published Wednesday. The group, which Palo Alto researc…
over 3 years ago