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TikTok Ban: Texas is Fourth State to Join; Indiana Sues

TikTok Ban: Texas is Fourth State to Join; Indiana Sues

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Four U.S. states have now banned TikTok on government workers’ devices. Plus, Indiana has sued the app’s owner ...
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Texas SB 820 Advances K-12 Cybersecurity Despite Limitations

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Like many organizations, K-12 schools adapted to COVID-19 by accelerating their digital transformation journeys. And like everyone else who followed this path, they invited unwanted attention from digital criminals in the process ...
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Norton 360 Cryptominer, Fake QR Codes on Parking Meters, Facebook Account Deactivation

Norton 360 Cryptominer, Fake QR Codes on Parking Meters, Facebook Account Deactivation

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Norton 360, a popular antivirus product, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers, some cities in Texas have been hit with a phishing scam designed to get users to ...
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Vertafore

Vertafore Leak: Private Data of 28M Texans

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An insurance software vendor ’fessed up to losing control of a huge cache of personal data. Vertafore lost the details of 27,700,000 Texas drivers ...
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Scammers Impersonating Texas Gov’t Departments to Send Fake RFQs

Scammers Impersonating Texas Gov’t Departments to Send Fake RFQs

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Scammers are impersonating governmental departments within the State of Texas to send out fake Requests For Quotations (RFQs). On September 21, Abnormal Security revealed that it had spotted an attack email that ...
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Texas Ransomware

Texas Does Ransomware Bigger: 23 Local Gov’ts Attacked

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Another week, another 23 local governments crippled by ransomware, in what appears to be a coordinated attack ...
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