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How to get the COVID vaccine when it’s your turn Updated Dec 21, 2020; Posted Dec 21, 2020 Stacy Vasquez, CEO of the Birmingham VA receives the COVID-19 vaccine. The first COVID-19 vaccines given in central Alabama were administered at the Birmingham VA Medical Center just after 3 p.m. today. The three veterans were all POWs from World War II and the Korean War. (Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com).Joe Songer | jsonger@al.com Facebook Share There’s already a defined order for who receives the fi...

By Sean Lawson and Brandon Valeriano December 20, 2020 " Information Clearing House" -  For almost three decades, we have awaited a mythical “cyber Pearl Harbor,” the harbinger of digital doom that the U.S. cybersecurity community assumes to be inevitable. Strangely enough, some believe this cyber Pearl Harbor already happened twice within the last two months. Though warnings of cyber Pearl Harbor em...

By Nick Psaki Dec 21, 2020 There were nearly 200 million ransomware attacks globally in the third quarter of 2020 alone. Cybercriminals are evolving – no longer targeting just frontline systems, but recovery solutions and data backups. The consequences of these attacks are devastating, and agencies must consider platforms with security built in, as well as backup and recovery measures to prepare for ransomware attacks that target the last line of defense: data backups. Recent guidance from th...

Democrats cry alarm over proposal to split up NSA, Cyber Command amid hacking crisis POLITICO 12/20/2020 By Martin Matishak © Evan Vucci /AP Photo National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone speaks during a daily press briefing at the White House, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, in Washington. Pentagon officials are making an 11th-hour push to potentially break up the joint leadership of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, a move that would raise inevitabl...

On this week’s Political Gabfest, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson talked with Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, who previously served as chief security officer at Facebook, about the SolarWinds cyberespionage attack. Their conversation has been edited for length and clarity. David Plotz: Alex, there are reports this that some clever and highly resourced people have broken into some of the most secure aspects of the American government and corporations....

Marco Rubio, acting chair of Senate intel committee, demanded retaliation Rubio said that the hack should be punished with more than sanctions Trump is yet to acknowledge the hack, which affected swathes of government  Mike Pompeo on Friday became the first to publicly blame Russia for the hack The Pentagon, FBI, Homeland Security and Treasury were all targeted Russia has denied being behind the hack, which was carried out over months 

Colorado congressman compares SUNBURST attack to cyber Pearl Harbor Microsoft president says the attack is a moment of reckoning for America Suspected Russian hackers breached key government agencies and companies  Officials warn that hackers had ample opportunity to set up secret backdoors Breach went undetected for nine months giving hackers free reign in systems Experts say infected networks may need to be burned to the ground and rebuilt  Hackers conducted a dry run of the attack more tha...

REVEALED: Russian hackers conducted dry run of its massive cyber attack - raising fears they have had access to SolarWinds software for more than a YEAR Officials say hackers appeared to have conducted a dry run of its massive cyber attack on October 2019 A version of the SolarWinds Orion product was found tampered with around that time, however it did not contain the secret network backdoor The tampered files went undetected, and in March of 2020, the hackers began using Orion updates to deliv...

Sunday news shows in RI, Dec. 20, 2020 The Providence Journal Gov. Gina Raimondo. The founders of Knead Doughnuts; Lisa Raiola of Hope & Main. In the Arena (7 a.m., Ch. 6) Reporters Ed Fitzpatrick and Dan McGowan of the Boston Globe discuss the state of local journalism in Rhode Island, the new leadership coming to the State House and the possible end of the pandemic.  State of the State (8 a.m., Cox Ch. 13, Verizon Ch. 32 and Full Channel Ch. 9) Ray Rickman, former legislator ...

Biden and lawmakers raise alarms over cyber-breach amid Trump silence Anne Gearan, Karoun Demirjian, Mike DeBonis and Annie Linskey, The Washington Post Dec. 17, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail A Marine stands guard outside the West Wing as snow begins to fall at the White House on Wednesday, Dec 16, 2020 in Washington, D.C.Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford WASHINGTON - Democrats and some Republicans raised the alarm Thursday about a massive and growing cybersecurity breach that many experts b...