Cyber Pros News Today

>> reporter: but many say businesses, hospitals and school districts have paid. the superintendent cant say what his school district did to regauge control of their computers and lesson plans. >> youre talking about 5 to 12-year-olds and shutting down their learning. >> reporter: tonight cyber pros are urging to double down on security. change all your passwords regularly. use multistep authentic indication. back up your computers offline or to the cloud. never skip a security update. higher a c...

7800 applied. meanwhile, cities large and small are under daily attack. here in new orleans, it took nine months for the city to recover from a ransomware attack. for a while it put police, fire and public works back on pen and paper. them critical financial data was protected in the cloud. >> reporter: did you consider paying the ransom? >> no. we didnt consider paying it because we were able to stop it in its tracks and we were able to beat back the compromise. >> reporter: but many say busine...

Regulations on internet service providers, allowing them to sell records of peoples personal browsing history. verizon and at&t stand to benefit. comcast is the parent company of nbc universal. the senate voted to approve the measure by 50-48 along party lines and now its in the house. >> this is up for debate. if you talk to the isp providers, they will tell you they dont necessarily have as much information at their fingertips as cyber pros would lead you to believe. another big name is charte...