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Cyber Attacks on Education and Government: The Rise of Cybercrime in the United States
Apr 19, 2024
IT experts are sounding the alarm tonight about cyber attacks in the U.S Experts say they have reached an all-time high with education and government entities
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welcome back it experts are sounding the
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alarm tonight about cyber attacks in the
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US experts say they have reached an
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all-time high with education and
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government entities taking the hardest
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hit Mills Hayes joins us live from Eden
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Prairie Minnesota with more on the new
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push for additional protections
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Mills hey Don and Scott yeah cyber
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criminals are targeting Education and
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Research sectors because of their
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sensitive information and because of a
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lack of adequate cyber security now uh
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checkpoint software experts tell me that
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we are starting to see an increase in
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attacks on Military and government
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because of the US involvement in
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multiple conflicts across the
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world we're at War and U literally
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against other countries um that are
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attempting to do damage here the Israel
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Hamas War and the Russia Ukraine war
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seem far away from still County
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Minnesota but Dave purcel says these
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screens bring the war home we see a lot
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of activity against our firewalls that
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comes in um from you know the big four
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that being Russia China Iran and North
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Korea they're targeting uh local
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government because frankly we have a lot
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of really important sensitive
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information um and the theory behind it
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is that U that we're not going to have
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the level of protection and security
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that uh a large organization like the
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federal the federal or state government
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would have the federal government is
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giving States 1 billion ion doll over
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the next four years at least 80% of that
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has to go to local government Minnesota
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is receiving 23.5 million to ramp up
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cyber security efforts but some say it's
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not enough with 3500 entities that are
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eligible for this that money is going to
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go pretty fast I'm counting cities
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townships school districts checkpoint
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software says attempted ransomware
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attacks on organizations Rose 33%
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worldwide last year on average a
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business experiences over 1100 cyber
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attacks a week the criminal Enterprise
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is actually growing in size it's a
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multi-billion doll industry some people
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think it's the third largest economy in
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the world after us and
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China and it's not just the quantity of
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cyber attacks that is increasing but
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also the quality cyber experts tell me
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that criminals are using artificial
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intelligence to make those fishing
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emails scams look even more realistic
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and harder to detect in Eden Prairie
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