The Federal Trade Commission will host a three-panel discussion on ransomware in Washington on Sept. 7 as part of its Fall Technology Series, the agency announced in a press release. FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez, FTC Chief Technologist Lorrie Faith Cranor, CIPT, and representatives from organizations like PhishLabs, Red Canary and the FBI will speak. “In addition to the panel discussions, the FTC’s Office of Technology Research and Investigation and New York University’s computer science department will present research based on a study of dozens of ransomware variants,” the report states. This event is free and public.
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