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The Biden administration rescinded a number of Trump-era executive orders Wednesday that sought to ban Chinese-made social media apps, such as TikTok and WeChat, from the U.S. over national security concerns - specifically the amount of personal data that these apps collect on American citizens.
In a new executive order published Wednesday, President Joe Biden ordered the U.S. Department of Commerce to conduct a larger review of Chinese-made applications to determine what data these apps may collect on U.S. citizens and whether that information is shared with China s government.
The new Biden executive order also reverses U.S. bans on eight other Chinese-made apps that former President Donald Trump announced in January just before he left office.
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The ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, which has disrupted the flow of gasoline and other petroleum products throughout the eastern U.S. since Friday, is
Pipeline cyberattack prompted NYPD to take precautionary action
NYPD reacted to pipeline cyberattack
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said soon after the department learned of the ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, it quickly spread the word through the CCSI, which stands for Critical Infrastructure Partners.
NEW YORK - Not long after the Colonial Pipeline, the biggest fuel pipeline in the U.S., delivering about 45% of what is consumed on the East Coast, was hit on Friday in a cyberattack, the New York City Police Department was informed.
NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller said the department then quickly spread the word through the CCSI, which stands for Critical Infrastructure Partners, as law enforcement at the federal and state level tried to determine exactly what was happening.
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The Justice Department is creating a task force to tackle the growing threat of ransomware and related extortion schemes targeting school districts, hospitals and others, according to an internal department memo that began circulating this week.
The newly established Ransomware and Digital Extortion Task Force will include DOJ officials as well as representatives from the FBI and the Executive Office for United States Attorneys.
The task force will target the ransomware criminal ecosystem as a whole, which means prosecuting those behind the attacks as well as those who launder money that s extorted, the memo states.