09 June 2021, 04:06 pm
FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) confirmed that it was able to arrest the sellers of Anom encrypted devices, offering these phones to various crime groups.
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The FBI seal is on display during a conference with Attorney General John Ashcroft June 21, 2001 in Washington, DC. Ashcroft announced the indictments of 13 Saudis and one Lebanese in connection with the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 American servicemen in Saudi Arabia.
If you don t know what an Anom mobile phone is, it s a device that can provide users total secrecy when it comes to communications. This means that if you send someone a text message or give them a call, no one will ever know your conversation.
training. ransomeware happens when an unsuspecting employee clicks on an email attachment and it is malware disguised as something inoctoberous and how the trojan horse gets in. they need some training to understand that there is actually skin behind the keyboard on the other side and in the adversaries seeking to do us harm and basic training things you can do. intelligence community can share threat information as we do on terrorist attacks and we have to take the fight to the enemy. find these hacking groups, fix their location and disrupt them before they target us in the first place. dana: you speak my language. take the fight to the enemy. i love that. talk to you later. bill: this morning vice president harris waking up in mexico city. our reporters are on the border waiting for her visit that s not happening so far.
attachment and allowing trojan horse to penetrate colonial pipeline or jbs. those things are easily stopped with training but i also think that we need to direct our intelligence communities, putin is giving them safe haven just like the taliban gave al-qaeda safe haven. we need to find, fix and disrupt hacking groups. that s the job of our federal government because they are targeting our critical infrastructure. neil: we will see if anything changes in the tone of the summit and exactly what president biden brings up with vladimir putin, but we will know probably a lot more in a couple of weeks n. the meantime we are focusing on other developments and the impact of some of those hack attacks including our meat prices worldwide. now are you willing to pay up to double than you were a little more than a couple of weeks ago for things like pork chops and hamburgers and steaks, some are. some business owners are not
attacks after a recent wave of hacks crippled several major companies. u.s. officials tell nbc news that the white house is looking to treat these attacks as national security threats, using intelligence agencies to spy on hacking groups and considering cyber responses of their own. nbc news national correspondent miguel almaguer reports. reporter: the controversial move comes after an urgent white house warning that no company or corporation is safe. in the face of damaging cyber attacks, a new white house memo reads, the number and size of ransomware incidents have increased significantly. business executives should immediately convene their leadership teams to discuss the ransomware threat and ensure you have the ability to quickly or quickly restore operations. these criminal groups are able to make a profit off the backs of businesses, schools, local governments, and more. reporter: calling ransomware
intelligence agencies to spy on hacking groups and considering cyberresponses of their own. national correspondent miguel almagure reports. reporter: no company or corporation is safe in the face of damaging cyberattacks a new white house memo reads the number of ransomware incidents have increased and they should convene their leadership teams to discuss the ransomware threat and ensure you have the ability to quickly restore operations. these criminal groups are able to make a profit off the backs of businesses, schools, local governments and more. reporter: a threat to core operations not just out of breaches but the private sector has a distinct and key responsibility. that was nbc miguel