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A potential ban on TikTok in the US and the prospect of more data privacy legislation holds some important lessons for enterprise IT leaders.

After CEO Shou Zi Chew’s congressional testimony didn’t sway lawmakers concerned about ties to Beijing, calls to ban the app are likely to escalate.

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, also known as "Pompompurin" within the online hacking community, was arrested at his New York home around 4:30 p.m. last Wednesday and charged with one count of conspiracy to commit access device fraud, an FBI agent said in a sworn statement filed in Southern District of New York court last week.

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While the education and healthcare sectors have been regular targets of ransomware, experts say recent incidents are reflecting increasingly aggressive extortion tactics as well as a more heightened – and crueler – focus on exploiting weak or vulnerable groups as a means of upping the pressure on organizations to pay.

Many industry professionals viewed the Biden administration’s cybersecurity strategy as a positive step, but warned of the investment that will be needed to carry it out.

The agency disclosed that it received a ransomware demand and found a data exfiltration event that affected its stand-alone computer system.

The federal government has no shortage of reasons to begin thinking about how to insure against damages that private markets can’t — or won’t — cover on their own.

A comprehensive data privacy program requires involvement from all parts of the business that deal with personal data.

A comprehensive data privacy program requires involvement from all parts of the business that deal with personal data.