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Experts: US House Examines Legislative Actions To Combat Cybercriminals

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The IRS could administer the credit, he noted, and the companies that receive this credit should also be encouraged to follow the NIST Cyber Security Framework. As those in the United States start to depend on telecommuting more, he noted that “bad actors will increase their malicious activities and target those working from home.”

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US And UK Blame Russia For NotPetya Virus

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The United States and Britain have accused Russia of releasing a cyberattack that impacted computers around the world and could be used to launch offensive attacks. and British officials warned that infected routers could be used to launch future offensive cyber operations.

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Girding For Iran’s Cyberattacks On The US — Where Past May Be Prologue

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A posting tied to the image stated the page had been “hacked by Iran Cyber Security Group Hackers. This is only [a] small part of Iran’s cyber ability! As the DHS said in a statement, “Iran maintains a robust cyber program, and can execute cyberattacks against the United States.

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China Refuses To Dial Back Tech Regulations

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has deemed a security threat. “It It doesn’t make sense for Beijing to give on this while we have this global campaign to block Huawei,” said Samm Sacks, a cyber security and China digital economy fellow at the New America Foundation. In addition, the country might increase purchases of goods from the United States.

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Tidal Looks Into ‘Potential Data Breach’

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“We have engaged an independent, third-party cyber-security firm to conduct a review of what happened and help us further protect the security and integrity of our data,” Sanders said in a statement. “We

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EMV’s Online Fraud Attack Push

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The data show that since the October 2015 EMV liability shift, United States fraud attacks have jumped by 11 percent. From Q1 2015 to Q4 2015, the fraud attack rate on United States merchant websites skyrocketed from nine attacks per 1,000 transactions to 27 attacks per 1,000 transactions — a 215-percent increase.

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Singapore Minister Says Breach May Have Been State-Linked

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Although Iswaran would not specify which state he thinks is behind the attack, he did say that other advanced persistent threat groups include the hackers that breached the U.S. Democratic National Committee and stole more than 20 million personnel records from the United States Office of Personnel Management.