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US government strikes back at Kremlin for SolarWinds hack campaign

Enlarge (credit: Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images) US officials on Thursday formally blamed Russia for backing one of the worst espionage hacks in recent US history and imposed sanctions designed to mete out punishments for that and other recent actions. In a joint advisory, the National Security Agency, FBI, and Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency said […]

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Paying ransomware Needs Might land you in hot water with the feds

(charge: Aurich Lawson) Firms, companies, and businesses which are struck with crippling ransomware strikes finally have a new strain to compete –large penalties in the US Department of Treasury at the event they pay to recoup their own data. Treasury Department officials left that advice official in a aide released on Thursday. It cautions that […]

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Oracle’s TikTok non-acquisition seeks Treasury, White House approval

Enlarge / The TikTok logo displayed on a smartphone, with logo of parent company ByteDance in the background. (credit: Sheldon Coope | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images) President Donald Trump spent several months pushing to have TikTok banned or sold to a US firm. He seems to have gotten his way, as Oracle […]