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Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with "millions in lump sum payments" from the sale Texas has sued General Motors for what it said is a years-long scheme to collect and sell drivers' data to...
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42-year-old Nigerian national Bamidele Omotosho has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for his role in a series of cyber scams that resulted in millions of dollars in losses for...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S. state of Texas over allegations that it illegally collected biometric data of millions of users without their permission, marking one of the largest penalties levied by regulators against the tech giant. The development arrived more than two years after the social media behemoth was sued for unlawfully capturing facial data belonging to Texas without their informed consent as is required by the law.
PornHub has now added Texas to its blocklist, preventing users in the state from accessing its site in protest of age verification laws. The bill requires adult sites showing sexual material to perform age verification to confirm a visitor from Texas is 18 years old.
Faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin this week became the latest members of a public US university to lose access to Chinese video app TikTok via campus networks. According to Neyland's email, the ban puts the university in compliance with a December directive issued by state governor Greg Abbott.
Instead, it's remembered as the weekend of the infamous Kaseya ransomware attack. In other words, the crooks used Kaseya's infrastructure to disseminate and detonate ransomware infections on Kaseya's customers' computers, combining two security weaknesses to spread their malware much more widely than if they had attacked Kaseya alone.
Texas communities struggled for days with disruptions to core government services as workers in small cities and towns endured a cascade of frustrations brought on by the sophisticated cyberattack, according to thousands of pages of documents reviewed by The Associated Press and interviews with people involved in the response. In Borger, a city of fewer than 13,000, early indications were worrisome as the city raced to shut down its computers.
Rob Robinson, client partner in utilities practice for Capgemini, talks with TechRepublic about what the catastrophic outages in Texas should teach us about predicting threats to U.S. the power grid.
I think what you're going to see is that in the normal band of operation, I think, not just in Texas, but around the country, there's a lot of scenario planning, there's a lot of analytics that are present and used up from real-time, what they call, state estimation and situational wellness to situational awareness all the way to 20-year modeling to keep this grid stable. I think it's going to be a combination of modeling, not just the power grid, but the gas grid, of that water infrastructure-there's a whole huge behavioral modeling frontier that's going to be opened up.