“This interruption of the distribution of refined gasoline and jet fuel underscores the vulnerability of our national critical infrastructure in cyberspace and the need for effective cybersecurity defenses, including a robust public-private collaboration to protect both the pipeline system and electric grid, as well as the infrastructure of the telecommunications and financial services systems,” King and Gallagher said.
Threats to critical infrastructure have built steadily in recent years, and over the past year during the COVID-19 pandemic have spiked, particularly as more work is done remotely and online.
Both nation states and cyber criminals have increasingly turned to ransomware as the weapon of choice to pressure organizations, including hospitals and schools, to pay large sums to decrypt their networks.
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American and British authorities said Friday that Russian state-sponsored hackers exploited major vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server, which were previously used by at least one Chinese state-sponsored hacking group to compromise potentially thousands of organizations. Meanwhile, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing hard for more cyber funding in the annual appropriations bills, and Google child care workers are pushing for a transportation stipend from the company.
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TWO HACKS COLLIDE: Russian state-sponsored hackers were among those to exploit recently uncovered vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server email application, which potentially compromised thousands of organizations, a coalition of American and British federal agencies warned Friday.
By Premiere Networks
May 7, 2021
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The lawmakers asked that the committee provide $750 million for a fund established for critical network security purposes at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration by the most recent National Defense Authorization Act.
“As the size, scale, and frequency of cyber incidents continue to increase, so too should our commitment to the goal of ensuring American communications networks are as safe and secure as possible,” the House Energy and Commerce leaders wrote. “To that end, we request that the Committee on Appropriations provide at least $750 million in Fiscal Year 2022 appropriations for the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund to facilitate the promotion and deployment of more secure communications networking technology and equipment.”
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