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Nation-State-Sponsored Attacks: Not Your Grandfather’s Cyber Attacks

Data Matters

In March 2022, Congress passed the Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act, which was signed by President Biden and will require critical infrastructure entities to report cyber incidents within 72 hours and ransomware payments within 24 hours to CISA. Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act of 2022, S. 3600, 117th Cong. (as Agency (Jan.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. For reference, there are currently about 4.2

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Singapore proposes changes to cybersecurity and data protection regimes

Data Protection Report

A key thrust of the Cyber Bill is the identification of 11 critical sectors as providing “essential services” and the ability of the CSA to designate as Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) any computer or computer system necessary for the continuous delivery of essential services. The 11 critical sectors identified are: Energy.