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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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, …
almost 3 years ago
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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 …
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
almost 3 years ago
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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…
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