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23 state agencies across Texas succumb to a ‘coordinated ransomware attack’

Aug19
by on August 19, 2019 at 5:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web


It seems like not a day goes by without a major company being hacked or a government-run institution exposed to ransomware attacks. Now, state agencies in Texas have succumbed to a coordinated ransomware attack that has impacted at least 23 local government entities across the state. The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), which is leading the response and investigation into the attacks, said the attacks started in the morning on August 16. Origins Unknown “The majority of these entities were smaller local governments,” the DIR said, adding evidence pointed to “one single threat actor.” The origin of the attacks is still…

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a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

23 state agencies across Texas succumb to a ‘coordinated ransomware attack’

Aug19
by on August 19, 2019 at 5:28 am
Posted In: Around the Web


It seems like not a day goes by without a major company being hacked or a government-run institution exposed to ransomware attacks. Now, state agencies in Texas have succumbed to a coordinated ransomware attack that has impacted at least 23 local government entities across the state. The Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR), which is leading the response and investigation into the attacks, said the attacks started in the morning on August 16. Origins Unknown “The majority of these entities were smaller local governments,” the DIR said, adding evidence pointed to “one single threat actor.” The origin of the attacks is still…

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Facebook should stop trying to disrupt payments with Libra and focus on repair

Aug18
by on August 18, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


Facebook has had quite a run operating in the completely unregulated, wild world of social media, finally ending with a mea culpa that it needs government regulation in order to manage the massive social and democratic disorder it has created. With its new Libra cryptocurrency, Facebook wants to disrupt the most highly regulated industry on the planet: the payments and transborder payments markets. In recent years, startups have made a habit of taking on regulators in order to grow, with Uber and Lyft as the posterchildren. Playing cat and mouse with much-hated, local regulators like the taxi and limousine commissions…

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