Weekly Security News for the Week Ending March 20, 2020

March 20, 2020 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Senate Kicks the Can Down The Road Again With FISA Renewal Last week it looked like Congress was going to renew the parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that DID EXPIRE last weekend. But Congress being Congress, they didn’t. On Monday the Senate agreed to kick the can down the road for 77 days. […]

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Security News for the Week Ending February 21, 2020

February 21, 2020 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

US Gov Warns of Ransomware Attacks on Pipeline Operations DHS’s CISA issued an alert this week to all U.S. critical infrastructure that a U.S. natural gas compressor station suffered a ransomware attack. While they claim that the attackers did not get control of the gas compression hardware, they did come damn close. The ransomware took […]

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