Why hackers are going after physical infrastructure CNN 1 hr ago By Rishi Iyengar and Clare Duffy, CNN Business © Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Images Fuel storage tanks connected to the Colonial Pipeline Co. system in an industrial area of the Port of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Fuel shortages are expanding across several U.S. states in the East Coast and South as filling stations run dry amid the unprecedented pipeline disruption caused by a criminal hack. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images
The last few months have seen a sharp rise in cyberattacks, often disrupting products and services that are key to our everyday lives. Many of those attacks have used ransomware, a set of tools that lets hackers gain access to computer systems and disrupt or lock them until they get paid.
News anchors say Marjorie Taylor Greene s offenses are part of something bigger
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News anchors say Marjorie Taylor Greene s offenses are part of something bigger
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Joe Manchin wants to save Democrats from themselves Vox.com 1 hr ago Andrew Prokop © Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) at a December news conference to unveil Covid-19 emergency relief in Washington, DC.
With the deadline approaching, Democratic leaders were trying to line up the votes to pass their bill. But they had a problem: Joe Manchin had put his foot down.
The year was 1983, the setting was West Virginia’s statehouse in Charleston, and the deadline was the end of the legislative session at midnight. Democratic leaders wanted to pass a bill creating a board that could cap rates charged by hospitals in the state. Manchin, a 35-year-old first-term state representative, had opposed the proposal.