Plus: Hearing Tuesday on drone threats
| | | | | | | | | | Hunting Down Russian Spies With Norway's Intelligence Service | | | | | | | | Hello. European intelligence officials say the placid border town of Kirkenes in Norway's far north is a laboratory for Russia's hybrid warfare. It is a potential ground zero for the kinds of espionage and sabotage attacks that have ramped up across Europe in recent years. | | WSJ follows an intelligence chief from Norway's domestic security agency on the hunt for illegal activity | | | | | | | | Also today: - Another UnitedHealth Group unit hacked
- Watchdog dings IRS for poor handling of seized digital assets
- A $23 million plan to improve security in Columbus, Ohio
- House hearing on drone threats
- And more
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| | | TikTok is racing to make a data-security deal with Canada to avoid shutting down operations in the country, where it has 14 million users and employs about 350 locals. (Bloomberg) | | | |  | PHOTO: AMANDA ANDRADE-RHOADES/REUTERS | | | | | Happening Tuesday: Rep. Mark Green (R., Tenn.) plans a hearing on how drone warfare is changing threats to the U.S. Tune in at 10:00 a.m. ET. | | | | Lawmakers in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday approved a plan to spend $23 million to modernize the city's tech and security after ransomware hackers a year ago disrupted citizen services and stole data. The city spent $7 million to hire cyber and legal experts to develop an incident report, which hasn't been made public. Firefighters and police officers are suing the city over the breach of their personal data. (Columbus Dispatch) | | | Medical billing company Episource is notifying 5.4 million people that their personal and healthcare details were compromised in a cyberattack in February. - Episource is owned by Optum, a unit of UnitedHealth Group, whose Change Healthcare unit was hacked in 2024. (TechCrunch)
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