Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5 Million in Ransom to Hackers
The payment clears the way for gas to begin flowing again, but it risks emboldening other criminal groups to take American companies hostage by seizing control of their computers. https://nyti.ms/3y3g8pE
The Orion capsule’s splashdown in the Pacific Ocean moved NASA into the next stages of the Artemis program, which will rely on Elon Musk’s rocket company to build a moon lander for astronauts. https://nyti.ms/3YcuUYn
Some of the industry’s critics are skeptical, however, about a new flexibility to changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. https://nyti.ms/34ey2si
A committee took its first vote in the early afternoon, advancing a bill that would increase the money companies pay government agencies when getting some mergers approved. https://nyti.ms/3d7WhN7
