Former CIA chief Leon Panetta said that Russian hackers behind recent crippling cyberattacks are “terrorists” as the Biden administration ramps up efforts to curtail the intrusions.
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Ransomware was on everyone s mind again this week as the world s largest meat processing company, JBS SA, faced an attack that crippled its operations in Australia and North America. The company was able to restore operations in just a few days, but the situation underscored once again ransomware s dire threat to supply chains and critical infrastructure worldwide.Â
Researchers are going deeper on investigations of Apple s recently released custom processor, M1, and they re finding all sorts of fascinating behavior and dynamics. And in the world of election security, Microsoft took a big step this week with the announcement that major voting machine vendor Hart InterCivic is incorporating the tech company s open source ElectionGuard software into its existing devices. Hart s first goal is to conduct a real-world pilot of ElectionGuard s âend-to-end verifiableâ voting.
But Mr. Biden’s comment which came before the Justice Department notified the same four Times reporters this week that it had secretly seized their phone records in 2020 was seemingly off the cuff, and contradicted existing department regulations that dated back to the Obama administration.
Those regulations permitted going after such data in leak investigations so long as there was high-level approval for the tactic. The Justice Department had refused to comment on whether it was formally changing its policy in light of Mr. Biden’s remarks, but on Saturday, Anthony Coley, a department spokesman, said that it had now done so.