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  • Photo of a coin with the Bitcoin symbol on it on a laptop

    Cyber Provisions In The New $1 Trillion Infrastructure Package

    November 29th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Earlier this month, Congress officially passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (colloquially known as the “Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal”), which allocated over $1 trillion to physical infrastructure, as well as aspects like access to clean drinking water and...

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  • Joint Global Sodinokibi/REvil Ransomware Operation Leads To Key Arrests

    November 9th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Deepti Govind The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday, Nov. 8 recent actions taken against two foreign nationals charged with deploying Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware to attack businesses and government entities in the United States. On the same day, investing app Robinhood...

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  • Representative photo of cybersecurity | Photo by Dan Nelson on Unsplash

    How To Protect Yourself From Cybercrimes: An Introduction

    November 5th, 2021
    category: Background Check ABCs

    By a Biometric staffer Only yesterday, Nov. 4., we wrote about how the Justice Department had said in an interview with the Associated Press that they are stepping up firepower in the battle against ransomware attacks and cybercrime. The number of cybercrime...

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  • Justice Department Stepping Up Firepower To Combat Cyber Crime

    November 4th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The Department of Justice (DOJ) is stepping up its firepower in the fight against the rapidly growing threat of ransomware attacks and cybercrime. This news comes as President Joe Biden's administration escalates its response to what it considers...

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  • The United States Is At An Inflection Point In Terms Of Cyber Threats

    October 21st, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The United States has repeatedly faced various kinds of cyberattacks in recent times, with targets ranging from infrastructure to education, and mostly due to criminals wielding ransomware. At the Justice Department Criminal Division’s fifth Cybersecurity Roundtable, Assistant Attorney...

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  • DOJ, DHS Raise Cyberattack Reporting Requirements For Critical Infrastructure Sectors

    October 7th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The federal government is systematically clamping down on lax cyberattack reporting by critical infrastructure companies in the private sector by tightening the standards that govern when they have to report to federal authorities that they have been the...

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  • Dangers Of Conti Ransomware Brought To The Fore By CISA, FBI’s Advisory

    September 23rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have observed the increased use of Conti ransomware in more than 400 attacks on U.S. and international organizations. In Conti attacks, malicious cyber actors...

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  • Representative photo of the USA flag on a grass field | Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

    The Shifting Landscape Of Terrorism: From The Skies To The Cloud

    September 8th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind In the last two decades since 9/11, terror groups, mostly acting through either lone actors or small groups of around 2-3 people, have staged attacks just about anywhere and everywhere in the United States. Aviation, of course, is the...

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  • President Biden Urges Industry CEOs To ‘Raise The Bar’ On Cybersecurity

    August 26th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer President Joe Biden met with chief executive officers (CEOs) from several companies including Apple, Google, and JP Morgan Chase at the White House on Wednesday, Aug. 25, and urged them to play their part in stepping up cybersecurity...

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  • Healthcare Systems Across Nation Continue To Be Disrupted By Ransomware Attacks

    August 19th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Nearly half of all hospital executives said their systems were either forced or proactively shutdown in the last six months due to ransomware attacks, a study by IPSOS, sponsored by Philips and CyberMDX, published last week found. Of...

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  • Healthcare — The Latest Critical Infrastructure Sector In The Crosshairs Of Cybercriminals

    July 30th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer It seems like every day brings a new cyber incident that compromises the personal data of thousands, if not millions, of Americans. Last week, we wrote about how K–12 schools became the favored target for malicious cyber actors...

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  • White House Ramps Up Pressure On Critical Infrastructure Companies To Improve Resilience Against Cyberattacks

    July 29th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In another sign of how seriously President Joe Biden is taking a recent swell in the number of cyberattacks on American entities, on Wednesday, July 28 the White House released a national security memorandum on “improving cybersecurity for...

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  • Representative photo of a truck on a highway | Photo by Rhys Moult on Unsplash

    Trucking & Logistics And Cybersecurity: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever

    July 26th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Transportation was one of four industries that suffered the highest percentage of malicious attacks last year, according to IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020, along with the technology, retail, and financial sectors. As transportation becomes more...

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  • ‘The Next Pearl Harbor, The Next 9/11, Will Be Cyber’ — A Cybercrime News Round-Up

    July 23rd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Experts and lawmakers across the country are sounding the alarm over what seems to be a cyber free-for-all on American businesses, infrastructure systems, and industries. President Joe Biden brought the subject up with the Russian government, and various...

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  • K–12 Schools, The Number One Target For Ransomware Strikes Last Year, Are Still Dealing With Cyber Attacks

    July 22nd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Earlier this month, the Morgan County school system in West Virginia was hit by a cyberattack, presumably from a Russia-based group, in which the files and data seized are being held for a $70 million ransom. Though all...

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  • NSA, CISA, FBI Issue Advisory Saying Chinese State-Sponsored Malicious Activity Major Threat To US Cyberspace Assets

    July 20th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In a cybersecurity advisory released on Monday, July 19, the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said Chinese state-sponsored cyber activity poses a major threat to U.S. and...

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  • Ransomware Giant REvil Disappears From Internet For Reasons Still Unknown

    July 14th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Multiple news sites began reporting on Tuesday, July 13, that REvil, the Russia-based group responsible for one of the largest ransomware attacks in history, had gone dark. There is no indication as of yet as to why the...

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  • Amid All The Ransomware Attacks, The Scope Of The Unnoticed Pulse Connect Hack Is Just Starting To Show

    June 15th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer It was in April that cybersecurity firm FireEye said on its Threat Research Blog that Chinese hackers suspected to be state-backed had exploited widely used networking devices for months to spy on dozens of high-value government, defense industry,...

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  • President Biden Issues Directives On Securing Energy Supply Chains And Countering Ransomware Attacks

    May 13th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Aara Ramesh The fallout of last week’s ransomware cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline continues. On Wednesday, May 12, the Biden–Harris administration announced that it was implementing an all-of-government plan to combat fuel shortages resulting from the attack, with the president also issuing...

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  • Colonial Pipeline storage tanks are seen in Woodbridge, N.J., Monday, May 10, 2021. Gasoline futures are ticking higher following a cyberextortion attempt on the Colonial Pipeline, a vital U.S. pipeline that carries fuel from the Gulf Coast to the Northeast. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)

    Critical Infrastructure Companies And Ransomware Wielding Cyber Criminals

    May 10th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Just last month, cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said in a blog that over the last five years, ransomware has evolved from being "a threat to individual computers to posing a serious danger to corporate networks." Or, to put it...

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  • An image of a Zoom conference going on.

    After Spike In Zoom Sessions, And Zoombombings, Company And Authorities Get Down To Business

    April 19th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu Last week, San Jose-based videoconferencing platform Zoom made a big announcement, which it labeled, “On Academic Freedom for our Higher Education Users.” The crux of the statement was that in the case of Zoom meetings and webinars hosted by...

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  • FBI Warns Of Five Vulnerabilities Being Exploited By Russian Hackers

    April 16th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu The Federal Bureau of Investigation warned on April 16 that actors of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) were exploiting five known vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities listed by the FBI were: CVE-2018-13379 Fortinet FortiGate VPN CVE-2019-9670 Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite...

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  • Europol Recognizes Heightened Threat From Certain Criminal Activities in 2021: Report

    April 14th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu In their 2021 Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessment, or SOCTA, Europol has identified the most serious threats posed by criminal organizations to individuals and businesses. The annual report, put together by Europol after analyzing data from law enforcement...

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  • US launches coordinated effort to deter malicious cyber activities

    September 17th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Four federal agencies launched a coordinated effort to disrupt and deter Iranian malicious cyber activities targeting the US and the broader international community, the Department of Justice (DoJ) said in a statement. The DoJ, the Federal Bureau of...

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  • The 5 Security Imperatives The Trump Administration Faces

    The 5 Security Imperatives The Trump Administration Faces

    December 8th, 2016
    category: Feature Stories

    (Above: Donald Trump on the campaign trail in Gettysburg. © Georgesheldon | Dreamstime.com) In a rapidly evolving, technology-driven environment, where the IoT is a way of life, the incoming administration faces a number of new challenges, especially from a security perspective. Here...

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