{"id":2307,"date":"2021-09-16T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2307"},"modified":"2021-09-16T22:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T22:44:00","slug":"ransomware-payments-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/ransomware-payments-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Payments Illegal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What&#8217;s happening? Supports of prohibiting ransom payments to hackers say that by prohibiting the payment of ransomware we will see a decline in ransomware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? For those playing along at their offices, we know that Oklahoma passed a bill , <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklegislature.gov\/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=hb1759&amp;Session=2100\">HB 1759 (OK | 2021 )<\/a>this year to make ransomeware specifically a crime.  3 states, PA, NY and NC are considering making payments to ransomware attacks illegal. A bill died in Texas to this effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How will this be important? Bans will be part of a multi prong approach including: incentives, mutual aid where the governments identify experts that can help businesses, and building business resiliency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/policy\/states-consider-legislation-to-ban-ransomware-payments\">Government Technology | States Consider Legislation to Ban Ransomware Payments<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ransomware-payment-illegal-ban-11631047209?mod=hp_jr_pos1\">WSJ | Should Ransomware Payments Be Made Illegal?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s happening? Supports of prohibiting ransom payments to hackers say that by prohibiting the payment of ransomware we will see a decline in ransomware. Why is this important? For those playing along at their offices, we know that Oklahoma passed a bill , HB 1759 (OK | 2021 )this year to make ransomeware specifically a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2307\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}