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Submission + - National data breach notification law introduced (cyberscoop.com)

Submitted by unarmed8 on Thursday November 30, 2017 @07:23PM

unarmed8 writes: Three Democratic senators introduced legislation on Thursday requiring companies to notify customers of data breaches within thirty days of their discovery and imposing a five year prison sentence on organizations caught concealing data breaches.

Submission + - Researchers: WannaCry ransomware shares code with North Korean malware (cyberscoop.com)

Submitted by unarmed8 on Monday May 15, 2017 @03:24PM

unarmed8 writes: The ransomware known as WannaCry that spread rapidly to 300,000 machines in 150 countries over the past few days shares code with malware written by a group of North Korean hackers known as the Lazarus Group. While the shared code is important, experts warned that it’s far from proof about who created and launched the ransomware attacks.

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