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Louisiana School Cyberattacks Trigger State Of Emergency

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Louisiana has declared a state of emergency after a series of cyberattacks impacted three of the state’s school districts. The attacks shut down the districts’ phones, as well as locked and encrypted files and computer equipment in school districts in Sabine, Morehouse and Ouachita parishes in North Louisiana. As a result, Gov.

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Darden Cyberattack Puts 567K Cards At Risk

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Darden said the Cheddar restaurants impacted are located in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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Senate Grills Facebook’s Marcus Over Libra

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Like a toddler who has gotten his hands on a book of matches, Facebook has burned down the house over and over, and called every arson a learning experience,” said Ohio Sen. Louisiana Sen. Sherrod Brown. “We Brown was far from the only voice on the committee during the hearing with sharp words for the manager Facebook sent.

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The United States Of Startups: The Most Well-Funded Tech Startup In Every US State

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The others include: Vox Media , Magic Leap , GreenSky , Avant , DraftKings , Duo Security , Infor , AvidXChange , and Domo. Tenable Network Security. Duo Security. $ The most well-funded US tech startup is California’s Uber with $13.96B in disclosed equity funding (as of 1/8/18). Click on the image below to enlarge. Involta. $

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Libra’s Long Week In Washington 

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Highlights from Tuesday’s hearing include Ohio Sen. said Louisiana Sen. Sean Duffy offered Facebook “kudos on the innovation” before starting in on a line of questions about who is allowed to use the Libra network, what kinds of transactions can it support — and how secured against money laundering it actually is. They didn’t.