{"id":475,"date":"2016-06-04T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2016\/06\/04\/lege-trend-ransomware-state-legislation-3-key-pieces-of-intel-read-the-legislation\/"},"modified":"2016-06-04T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T01:00:00","slug":"lege-trend-ransomware-state-legislation-3-key-pieces-of-intel-read-the-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/lege-trend-ransomware-state-legislation-3-key-pieces-of-intel-read-the-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lege Trend. Ransomware State Legislation. 3 Key Pieces of Intel. Read the Legislation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is ransomware?<\/strong>\u00a0A data security attack that freezes computer data, but leaves the business, such as a\u00a0hospital,\u00a0otherwise functioning so that services are not disrupted. A ransom is \u00a0asked for and in exchange the data is liberated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What statutes are states amending?\u00a0<\/strong>Computer crimes to apply extortion to computer violations<\/p>\n<p><strong>What specific statutory tweaks is California considering after ransomware attacks at California hospitals?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>defines ransomware<\/li>\n<li>makes it a crime to use ransomware<\/li>\n<li>the criminal offense is punishable by 2-4 years in jail and a $10,000 fine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.ca.gov\/cgi-bin\/port-postquery?bill_number=sb_1137&amp;sess=CUR&amp;house=B&amp;author=hertzberg_%3Chertzberg%3E\">California Senate Bill 1137<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthitsecurity.com\/features\/how-ransomware-affects-hospital-data-security\">Health IT Security |\u00a0How Ransomware Affects Hospital Data Security<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is ransomware?<\/strong>\u00a0A data security attack that freezes computer data, but leaves the business, such as a\u00a0hospital,\u00a0otherwise functioning so that services are not disrupted. A ransom is \u00a0asked for and in exchange the data is liberated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What statutes are states amending?\u00a0<\/strong>Computer crimes to apply extortion to computer violations<\/p>\n<p><strong>What specific statutory tweaks is California considering after ransomware attacks at California hospitals?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>defines ransomware<\/li>\n<li>makes it a crime to use&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-data","category-legislative-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}