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It’s a bit of a good cop/bad cop approach for the Biden administration towards the private sector over the recent cyberattacks of major American corporations. The White House sent a pair of envoys to the Sunday talk shows raising alarm and prodding businesses into more action against hackers.
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm took the hard-line approach, first telling CNN’s State of the Union the nation’s power grid could be shut down by hackers due to lax security.
“Even as we speak, there are thousands of attacks on all aspects of the energy sector and the private sector generally, I mean, the meat plant, for example,” Granholm warned before vowing the administration wants to team up with everyone to fight ransomware attacks. “So, working with other countries, working with the private sector, working inside of our own government the president has issued these executive orders to make sure that our own house is in order making sure that
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It all came down to one password. That's the finding of a cybersecurity expert commissioned by Colonial Pipeline to find out how hackers were able to shut down the nation's.
With around 50 days to go before the Olympics open, the organizers and government continue to ramp up efforts to prevent cyberattacks from disrupting the games.