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business-technology1 year ago•1 min saved

US Agencies Warn Companies: Preserve Signal and Slack Chats

US antitrust enforcers have warned companies under investigation to preserve and turn over instant messaging records from platforms like Slack and apps such as WhatsApp and Signal, with failure to do so potentially leading to fines or criminal charges. Recent cases have seen concerns raised about deletion of chats and messages, with the Justice Department seeking sanctions against Google for failing to preserve internal communications and the FTC alleging that Amazon employees used Signal to hide communications during an antitrust investigation.

via Bloomberg Law|

#antitrust-investigations #business-technology #document-preservation

politics2 years ago•2 min saved

"Biden administration reveals intelligence on Wuhan lab as Covid origin."

The US intelligence report on the origins of Covid-19 says that both natural and laboratory-associated origins remain plausible hypotheses. The report confirms that researchers at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill in the fall of 2019, but it's not certain that they were sick with Covid-19. The report also confirms that the Wuhan lab did not always adhere to safety protocols in studying coronaviruses. The intelligence agencies are divided on the origin theory, with some favoring the natural origin theory and others favoring the lab leak hypothesis. Republicans in Congress have accused the Biden administration of trying to cover up the lab leak theory.

via POLITICO|

#covid-19 #intelligence-report #pandemic-origins

cybersecurity2 years ago•2 min saved

Multiple U.S. agencies hacked in major cyberattack.

Several U.S. federal agencies have been hacked as part of a broader cyberattack that exploited a vulnerability in the popular file sharing software MOVEIt. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is investigating the scope of the hacks and providing support to affected agencies. The hackers, believed to be the ransomware group CL0P, have stolen data from at least 47 organizations and demanded payment not to publish them online. It is unclear whether the stolen files were sensitive or whether the hackers had disrupted government systems. This is the third known time in as many years that foreign hackers have been able to break into multiple federal agencies and steal information.

via NBC News|

#cl0p #cyberattack #cybersecurity