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A top cybersecurity official said Wednesday that ransomware attacks against critical industries in the U.S., such as those against Colonial Pipeline and JBS, have become “more brazen” and warned they are likely to continue.

Chris Butera, head of Threat Hunting for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said during a virtual summit on Wednesday that ransomware actors have

President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday boosting America's cyber defenses following a ransomware attack on a company that operates a pipeline that provides nearly half of the gasoline and jet fuel for the country's East Coast.

The broad order, which the administration had been working on for months, aims to strengthen cybersecurity for federal networks and outline new

United Airlines said Tuesday that a software update triggered a glitch that forced it to halt departures nationwide, briefly crippling one of the nation’s biggest carriers on a busy travel day. Federal officials said United crews had been unable to contact airline dispatchers through normal means. “A software update caused a widespread slowdown in United’s technology systems,” United said in a

Members of the U.S. Secret Service, the New Hampshire Department of Information Technology, and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency meet at St. Anselm College for a panel discussion hosted by Sen. Maggie Hassan, Aug. 21, 2023 —New Hampshire Bulletin When the Concord School District experienced a cybersecurity attack in 2016, Pamela McLeod was the director of technology.