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The US Health and Human Services Department (HHS) announced Tuesday it would help doctors and hospitals find alternate claims processing platforms in order to help reboot the flow of business after a cyberattack on a UnitedHealth Group (UNH) subsidiary crippled operations of a large swath of America’s health systems for the past two weeks. The cyberattack on Feb. 21 paralyzed Change Healthcare, which is used by hospitals, doctors’ offices, and pharmacies to process payments and prior… Source link

After weeks of relative silence on the issue, President Joe Biden issued a stark warning to CEOs Monday: Moscow is exploring cyberattacks, they could come soon, and businesses need to do more to prepare. “The president delivered a very clear message, which is, every company needs to be hardening its cyber defenses,” National Economic Council Director Brian Deese told Yahoo Finance. “And I think it was well-received in part because we’ve been working with the private sector for months… Source link

As the U.S. and its allies impose punishing sanctions against Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, government agencies and businesses may face retaliatory cyberattacks. Russia is a formidable opponent in the cyberwarfare space, as evidenced by its ability to disrupt Ukraine’s power grid in 2015 and 2016. Still, the U.S. has just as much firepower. Need proof? Look no further than the American and Israeli computer worm known as Stuxnet that took out an Iranian uranium enrichment facility in… Source link

The Russian Internet giant Yandex says it repelled the largest DDoS (denial-of-service) attack in history. The cyberattack included more than 20 million requests per second (RPS), according to the company’s blog on the website Habr.  The source of the attack was a new botnet, which Yandex named “Meris.” Yandex observed signs of the appearance of the new botnet back in late June. The company estimates that “Meris” consists of between at least 56,000 infected devices, but says the… Source link

(Bloomberg) — JBS SA, the largest meat producer globally, has made “significant progress” to resolve the cyberattack that impacted its global operations and will have the “vast majority” of its plants operational on Wednesday. “Our systems are coming back online and we are not sparing any resources to fight this threat,” JBS USA Chief Executive Officer Andre Nogueira said in a statement late Tuesday. The cyberattack forced the shutdown of all of JBS’s U.S. beef plants –… Source link

The Daily Beast Camping Was So Popular It Became Basic and Nearly Ruined the ‘Outdoors’ Harold M. Lambert/GettyThat children who came of age in the 1960s would come to find liberating and countercultural meanings in camping was not a predictable outcome. Camping in the 1950s was a decidedly mainstream affair. Since the end of World War II it had become a broadly popular choice for the summer family vacation, itself increasingly an expected annual ritual. Families clamored for campsites in… Source link

The fallout from massive Russian cyberattacks on the U.S. government and private companies continues to spread, touching everything from Cox Communications to an Arizona County to the U.S. agency that oversees the nation’s nuclear arsenal. Experts say even more victims will likely emerge. But perhaps the most stunning part of the attack is that it was perpetrated using the very services designed to keep computer networks safe in the first place: system updates. The hackers did this by… Source link

TipRanks J.P. Morgan: 2 Stocks to Buy (And 1 to Avoid) Marko Kolanovic, the well-known quant strategist with JPMorgan, sees a positive feedback loop forming that will drive the markets higher next year. Kolanovic believes that a decline in volatility and favorable monetary policies will combine to make stocks the go-to investment for 2021, fueling further market gains. Officially, JPM is forecasting a 25% gain in the S&P 500 over the next 12 months.With investors gravitating toward stocks,… Source link