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PHOTO: GRAEME SLOAN/BLOOMBERG
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A compromise House proposal to renew a powerful national-security surveillance program for five years failed to advance Friday. With no immediate path forward, the House and Senate voted to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act until April 30. (WSJ)
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Happening Tuesday: Two House subcommittees plan a joint hearing on online scams and crypto fraud, with testimony from Cynthia Kaiser, senior vice president of the Halcyon Ransomware Research Center, and others. Tune in at 10:00 a.m. ET.
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The U.K.'s offshore energy industry on Tuesday plans to test response plans to cyber and physical attacks conducted with drones and boats. Under Exercise Granite Resolve, simulated attacks will test offshore and on-land teams who are members of the Offshore Energy UK trade group.
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Wealth-management firm Ameriprise Financial is notifying nearly 48,000 customers that their private data was compromised in a breach in March. No unauthorized transactions or movement of funds happened as a result of the incident, Ameriprise said.
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Settlement: MGM Resorts International agreed to pay $4 million to settle three Canadian lawsuits over two data breaches, in 2019 and 2023. MGM customers with claims of documented harm can receive up to $20,000. Others can receive $150 if they were breached in one incident or $300 for both.
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ILLUSTRATION: ELENA SCOTTI/WSJ; ISTOCK
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You’re about to see a lot of critical software updates. Don’t ignore them. Anthropic’s newest, as-yet-unreleased AI model is a hacker’s dream, so here’s the cybersecurity advice you need to start taking seriously right now. (WSJ)
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Portion of cyberattacks against the auto industry last year attributed to ransomware gangs, according to research from Halcyon. That's more than double the percentage in 2024.
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PHOTO: WILL DUNHAM
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A Tennessee man who pleaded guilty in January to hacking an electronic document filing system at the U.S. Supreme Court in 2023 received a sentence of one year of probation. Nicholas Moore, 24 years old, also hacked into systems at the Veterans Affairs and AmeriCorps. (TechCrunch)
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Separately, another Tennessee man was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in a 2022 cyberattack against DraftKings, an online betting system. Kamerin Stokes, age 23, worked with other hackers to access about 60,000 DraftKings accounts, the Justice Department said. (SecurityWeek)
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