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A group of congressional Democrats on Tuesday called on Facebook to abandon a plan to create an Instagram for kids platform, further amplifying criticism of the plan. Meanwhile, advocates are expressing concerns that the “homework gap” created by digital learning during the COVID-19 pandemic may continue once students return to in-person classes, and Colonial Pipeline said it was experiencing some technical issues a week after service resumed after a devastating ransomware attack.
FACEBOOK’S NOT-SO-POPULAR PLAN: A group of congressional Democrats ramped up calls for Facebook to abandon a plan to create an Instagram for kids platform, alleging that the company failed to adequately address concerns the lawmakers raised.
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The threat posed by ransomware attacks, including the growth of cybercriminal cartels, double extortion schemes and big game hunting targeting larger organizations, requires an international response, Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, told attendees Tuesday at RSA Conference 2021. International cooperation to address ransomware is critically important because transnational criminals are most often the perpetrators of these crimes, and they often leverage global infrastructure and money laundering networks to do so, Neuberger said.
To address the ransomware threat, the Biden administration wants to build the same type of coalition that helped the U.S. government investigate the SolarWinds supply chain attack and eventually determine that Russia s Foreign Intelligence Service was involved. The White House later imposed economic sanctions on Russia (see:
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LONDON Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) chief denied on Tuesday that his agency was behind the SolarWinds cyber attack, which led to the compromise of nine U.S. federal agencies and hundreds of private sector companies.
The United States and Britain have both blamed SVR for the attack on SolarWinds.
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“The claims are like a bad detective novel,” SVR Director Sergei Naryshkin, a close ally of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, told the BBC in Russian.
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