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The Hill: Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), the chair of a key cyber House panel, said Wednesday that she would push for inclusion of language on securing critical systems as part of negotiations around President’s Biden’s infrastructure proposal.
CNet: Cybercrime is on the rise as hackers continue to steal data, disrupt business and cause harm online. The result is billions of dollars in losses: The total annual loss in the US from cybercrime reached $4.2 billion in 2020, according to data released from StockApp.com.
Financial Post: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Wednesday that dealing with ransomware will be a top priority, highlighting the growing threat of the data-scrambling software.
Yahoo Finance: The U.S. Cyber Command conducted more than two dozen operations aimed at preventing interference in last November's presidential election, the general who leads the Pentagon's cyber force said.
Lexology: The Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (“IIROC”) has published a Cybersecurity Notice on Ransomware (the “Notice”), which flags a recent uptick in ransomware attacks on IIROC firms and provides guidance on how IIROC firms should prevent, detect, respond to and recover from ransomware attacks.
Yahoo Finance: Canada's main cybersecurity watchdog said Wednesday that it's likely too late to prevent criminals from using a vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange email servers, unless system administrators have already installed software patches that were issued in early March.
Journal of Accountancy: CPAs have a new opportunity to act as third-party assessors of the cybersecurity maturity of U.S. defense contractors as they work to comply with new regulations that have been created to combat cyberthreats.
Investment Executive: In a notice to the industry, the self-regulatory organization said that it has seen an increase in cyber attacks targeting IIROC firms with malware that infects and encrypts devices and demands a ransom for the return of the locked data.
Silicon: The wide ranging impact from the Microsoft Exchange zero-day flaws continue to be felt with a fresh warning from security researchers.
BNN Bloomberg: A group of hackers say they breached a massive trove of security-camera data collected by Silicon Valley startup Verkada Inc., gaining access to live feeds of 150,000 surveillance cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons and schools.
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