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White House racing to finalize strategy to deter ransomware attacks By: CNN By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) -- The White House is racing to finalize a government-wide strategy on how to respond to ransomware attacks that will deter companies from paying out ransoms to cybercriminals as the Biden administration grapples with yet another major attack on a US firm by criminal actors believed to be based in Russia. For months, the National Security Council has been studying how to stop debilitating attacks on critical infrastructure entities and weighi...

Submitted by BlueNC on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 09:35 REPUBLICANS WANT TO CONCEAL-CARRY IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY: Three unidentified Council members and “many” House members requested the permit exemptions, according to the chief bill sponsor, Republican Rep. Keith Kidwell of Beaufort County. Kidwell said he's received death threats in the past, and expects other colleagues have as well. Another co-sponsor, GOP Rep. Mike Clampitt of Swain County, said he wore a bulletproof vest on the campaign trail last fall. Bill opponents focused on the portion of the measure that would allow for armed legisl...

F.B.I. Identifies Group Behind Pipeline Hack The attack by DarkSide, a relatively new criminal group believed to have roots in Eastern Europe, exposed the remarkable vulnerability of key American infrastructure. President Biden said on Monday that the government had mitigated any effect the pipeline hack might have had on the United States’ fuel supply.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times May 10, 2021 President Biden said on Monday that the United States would “disrupt and prosecute” a criminal gang of hackers called DarkSide, which the F.B.I. formally blamed for a huge ransomware att...

May 9, 2021 A series of major cyberattacks in recent weeks has underscored the brazenness of the attackers and the challenges of tackling the problem of ransomware, just as the Biden administration announced plans to take on the issue. In a matter of days, attacks were revealed against the police department in Washington, where the hackers threatened to release information about police informants to criminal gangs; the Illinois Attorney General’s office, which had been warned about weak cybersecurity practices in a recent state audit; and San Diego-based Scripps Health, where medic...

UN cybercrime proposal could help autocrats stifle free speech, rights group says A man walks by the UN headquarters in New York in March. (Photo by Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images) Share May 5, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP Human rights advocates are warning that a controversial proposal at the United Nations to counter cybercrime could validate tactics that autocratic governments around the world have used to criminalize free speech and security research. The Russian and Chinese governments back the notion of establishing a new anti-cybercrime convention, a process that diplomat...