{"id":124722,"date":"2021-07-08T22:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T05:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/why-ransomware-attacks-are-on-the-rise-and-what-can-be-done-to-stop-them"},"modified":"2021-07-08T22:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T05:22:18","slug":"why-ransomware-attacks-are-on-the-rise-and-what-can-be-done-to-stop-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/why-ransomware-attacks-are-on-the-rise-and-what-can-be-done-to-stop-them","title":{"rendered":"Why ransomware attacks are on the rise \u2014 and what can be done to stop them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-ransomware-attacks-are-on-the-rise-and-what-can-be-done-to-stop-them2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These attacks \u2014 along with news of several high-profile data breaches linked to the Russian government-backed hack of American software company SolarWinds, including at tech titans like Microsoft \u2014 have prompted questions about how these attacks have occured, and how to better guard against them.<\/p>\n<p>State and local leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/watch-live-local-state-leaders-testify-on-emerging-cybersecurity-threats\">testified<\/a> June 17 before the Senate about how cyber threats they face have grown. And along with the increased penalties for cybercriminials included in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/show\/4-main-issues-fueling-congressional-debate-over-biden-infrastructure-plan\">bipartisan Senate infrastructure package<\/a>, a second bipartisan Senate bill would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/16\/politics\/bill-report-cyber-breach-24-hours\/index.html\">require public and private entities to report cybersecurity<\/a> breaches to the government within 24 hours, as well as add liability protections to help encourage businesses to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what you should know as debate over cybersecurity and how to fight ransomware continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These attacks \u2014 along with news of several high-profile data breaches linked to the Russian government-backed hack of American software company SolarWinds, including at tech titans like Microsoft \u2014 have prompted questions about how these attacks have occured, and how to better guard against them. State and local leaders testified June 17 before the Senate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/531"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}