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Dragos, Inc., Founder & CEO Robert Lee talks to Dan Patterson about the risks of IoT as well as the capabilities of Russian hackers.

Founder & CEO of Dragos, Inc., speaks with Dan Patterson about the US hacking other countries and its policies when responding to cybersecurity threats.

Robert Lee, founder & CEO of Dragos, Inc., speaks with Dan Patterson about which countries pose a threat to US industrial infrastructures.

The founder and CEO of Dragos speaks with Dan Patterson about the US hacking other countries and its policies when responding to cybersecurity threats. Dan Patterson, CNET and CBS News Senior Producer, spoke with cybersecurity company Dragos, Inc., Founder and CEO Robert Lee about the role the US plays in hacking other countries as well as the policies for cyberattacks in the US that result in loss of life.

Dan Patterson speaks with cybersecurity expert Robert Lee about how Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea pose a threat to US industrial infrastructures. Robert Lee: The [countries] we've seen over the years would be Russia, Iran, China, North Korea-the normal players.

NSO Group - sued by Facebook for developing Pegasus spyware that targeted WhatsApp users - this week claimed Facebook tried to license the very same surveillance software to snoop on its own social-media addicts. The Israeli spyware maker's CEO Shalev Hulio alleged in a statement [PDF] to a US federal district court that in 2017 he was approached by Facebook reps who wanted to use NSO's Pegasus technology in Facebook's controversial Onavo Protect app to track mobile users.

Many U.S. government Web sites now carry a message prominently at the top of their home pages meant to help visitors better distinguish between official U.S. government properties and phishing pages. Here's a sobering statistic: According to PhishLabs, by the end of 2019 roughly three-quarters of all phishing sites were using SSL certificates.

Ransomware attacks are still happening, and more employees need to be trained on how to prevent them. TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Rahul Kashyap, president and CEO of Awake Security, about the prevalence of ransomware and how to prevent it.

Ransomware attacks are still happening, and more employees need to be trained on how to prevent them.

DDoS attacks come in different sizes and types and it's not been revealed which methods were used beyond the fact the attacks lasted for hours. These days, DDoS attacks are not the potent weapon they once were, primarily because large websites are protected by a newer generation of defences trained on a number of large attacks, hijacking a widening range of protocols.