New Jersey City Utility Struggling With Costly Cyberattack
A ransomware attack against the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority Sept. 30 forced the public utility to spend roughly $500,000 after access to “vital” sewer and water data was cut off. by Peter D’Auria, nj.com / January 14, 2021 The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority at 555 Route 440, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. TNS
(TNS) The recent cyberattack at the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority inflicted damage that lasted months and threatened to cause a “public health crisis,” the agency said.
Officials from Jersey City and the autonomous utilities agency have said little about the Sept. 30 ransomware attack, which MUA documents said blocked access to “vital” water and sewer information.
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What the hell just happened? Doug Steinhardt, one month into his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, dropped out last night, citing “unforeseen professional obligations.”
This is, to say the least, unexpected. And while I can’t say for sure what those professional obligations are (Steinhardt is a partner at a politically-connected law firm with a lot of government contracts), I know this: He made the risky calculation to become inseparable from President Donald Trump in an overwhelmingly anti-Trump state. He issued an advertisement doubling dow
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Kushner was one of 26 people granted a full pardon by Trump, who also commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional three people.
Kushner’s history in the Garden State is long and involves a nearly two-year prison sentence for a bizarre tax fraud case.
Who is Charles Kushner?
A son of Holocaust survivors, Kushner grew up in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Elizabeth, where his father Joseph worked as a carpenter and later as a builder who acquired and managed small properties.
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Jersey City officials have shut down eight outdoor dining structures this month, an apparent crackdown on the outdoor “parklets” that have sprung up in response to COVID-19 restrictions.
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