{"id":936,"date":"2018-04-11T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2018\/04\/11\/what-you-need-to-know-about-ransomeware-bills-in-the-apple-blossom-state\/"},"modified":"2018-04-11T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T21:29:00","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-ransomeware-bills-in-the-apple-blossom-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/what-you-need-to-know-about-ransomeware-bills-in-the-apple-blossom-state\/","title":{"rendered":"What you Need to Know about Ransomeware Bills in the Apple Blossom State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:\u00a0<\/strong>Michigan<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2 ransomware bills signed by Michigan&#8217;s Governor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(j3inv3q13xey3s2swafodshe))\/mileg.aspx?page=getobject&amp;objectname=2017-HB-5257&amp;query=on\">PA 95\u00a0HB 5257 (2018)\u00a0<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>prohibits knowingly possess ransomware with the intent to use or employ that ransomware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(j3inv3q13xey3s2swafodshe))\/mileg.aspx?page=getobject&amp;objectname=2017-HB-5258&amp;query=on\">PA 96 HB 5258 (2018)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>sentencing guidelines for ransomware possession<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What problems was the Legislature trying address:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michigan had no recourse to charge\u00a0cybercriminals that had ransomware on their computers that they hadn&#8217;t used\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In 2017 there were\u00a01,300 reported cases of ransomware attacks\u00a0in Michigan\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/possession-of-ransomware-is-now-a-crime-in-michigan\">State Scoop |\u00a0Possession of ransomware is now a crime in Michigan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>State:\u00a0<\/strong>Michigan<\/p>\n<p><strong>The 2 ransomware bills signed by Michigan&#8217;s Governor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(j3inv3q13xey3s2swafodshe))\/mileg.aspx?page=getobject&amp;objectname=2017-HB-5257&amp;query=on\">PA 95\u00a0HB 5257 (2018)\u00a0<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>prohibits knowingly possess ransomware with the intent to use or employ that ransomware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/(S(j3inv3q13xey3s2swafodshe))\/mileg.aspx?page=getobject&amp;objectname=2017-HB-5258&amp;query=on\">PA 96 HB 5258 (2018)<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>sentencing guidelines for ransomware possession<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What problems was the Legislature trying address:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michigan had no recourse to charge\u00a0cybercriminals that had ransomware on their computers that they hadn&#8217;t used\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In 2017 there were\u00a01,300 reported cases of ransomware attacks\u00a0in Michigan\u00a0<\/li>\n<p>\u2026<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,3,49,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-legislative-issue","category-legislative-trend","category-ransomware","category-regulatory-enforcement","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}