by Keelin Ferris | Nov 9, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Privacy & Tech
The Department of Justice announced on Monday, Nov. 8, that it successfully seized $6.1 million collected in ransom. Along with that came the filing of criminal charges against two notorious Eastern Europeans, alleged to be associated with the REvil ransomware that...
by Andrew Moran | Jun 11, 2021 | Articles, Privacy & Tech
Hiring employees, complying with federal and state regulations, and paying interest on borrowed capital: These are the common expenses of running a company. In today’s economy, is ransomware also the cost of doing business? From the multi-million-dollar Colonial...
by Mark Angelides | Jun 2, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Privacy & Tech
JBS USA is the American branch of the world’s largest meat producer. The livestock behemoth was forced to shut down all nine of its beef processing plants in the wake of an “organized cybersecurity attack” that targeted its complex computing systems....
by Leesa K. Donner | May 19, 2021 | Articles, Biden Administration
As gas pumps begin to flow again across much of the southeastern part of the United States, there is considerable chatter about ramping up construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline – and for good reason. The cyberattack that shut down the Colonial Pipeline last week...
by Leesa K. Donner | May 14, 2021 | Articles, Politics
The cyberattack that shut down the Colonial pipeline is a study in how to make a mess of a bad situation. But wait, there is an answer to calamities such as these that can be solved easily by none other than the federal government. In addressing the shutdown of the...