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In Early March, the Biden Administration released their "National Cybersecurity Strategy," a roadmap for "a safe and secure digital ecosystem for all Americans," which "reimagines cyberspace as a tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security and prosperity; respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; trust in our democracy and democratic institutions; and an equitable and diverse society.

An ongoing phishing campaign has been arriving in victims' inboxes posing as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) containing Microsoft OneNote files that are supposedly W-9 tax forms. Once opened, a hidden script allows for malware known as Emotet to self-install itself on your system and spread.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation on March 24 sent out a special bulletin warning companies of criminals spoofing US-based companies who make large vendor purchases. This type of attack, Business Email Compromise (BEC), happens when you or someone within your organization received an e-mail that is spoofing either your company, or a company that you often deal with.

Nantucket Public Schools fell victim to a ransomware attack at the end of January, which forced the early dismissal and subsequent cancellation of the next school day at their four public schools.

"Earlier this morning, we discovered that Nantucket Public Schools computer systems were compromised by Ransomware," wrote Superintendent Elizabeth Hallett in a statement to the community.

A new data study published by Network Assured ranks Massachusetts as the 10th worst state for data breaches in 2022.

The study takes every breach from last year, and "compare the number of data breaches to each state's number of registered businesses, to obtain a value for 'breaches per entity,'" according to a post on the organization's website.

ChatGPT, a "chatbot" developed by OpenAI, uses language models to "interact in a conversational way."

Last month, Microsoft announced a multi-billion dollar investment deal with OpenAI, while rumors circulated that they are getting close to being able to demo applications of the language model within Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook, according to the Verge.

T-Mobile revealed last month that it had been the victim of a data breach in November which affected and exposed the personal information of 37 million accounts. This announcement comes just two years after a larger breach in which T-Mobile ended up having to pay $350 million after a class action lawsuit was brought against them.

The healthcare industry has seen ransomware attacks double from 2016 to 2021, according to a study published in the December 2022 issue of JAMA Health Forum. The study looked at 374 ransomware attacks, which exposed "the personal health information of nearly 42 million patients.

Three competing consumer privacy bills are making their way through the Massachusetts State House, the Massachusetts Data Privacy Protection Act (MDPPA), the Massachusetts Information Privacy and Security Act (MISPA), and the Internet Bill of Rights, which were introduced earlier last month.

Earlier this month, tech companies across the world traveled to Las Vegas for the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to show off their new product lines, gadgets, and concepts for the near future. There was a big showing this year from companies that are pioneering the Augmented Reality (AR) field.