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The Better Business Bureau of Greater Houston and South Texas and the FBI are warning of an increase in ransomware, alerting individuals to be wary of unknown or misleading emails, texts, and phone calls that could lead to individuals installing ransomware on their devices.

HUMBLE, Texas – The Humble Independent School District is back online after experiencing a cyber attack during the first day of virtual learning Tuesday. Humble ISD Superintendent Liz Celania-Fagan took to Twitter to inform everyone of the virtual attack while urging other students already online to stay on. “Students who haven’t already logged on to their student gmail accounts cannot log in to student email accounts until it is resolved.”The My Humble server is experiencing a cyber attack. The My Humble server is currently experiencing a cyber attack called denial of service. Hampson said while common, tracking the source of a denial of service attack is tough.

HOUSTON – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Iran has increased cyber attacks up to 10,000 times per minute over the last two days against state agency computers. “I have the full faith and trust that our soldiers on today’s battlefield are going to do everything they can to toe that line to protect the United States,” he said. He said in addition to the threat of cyber attacks, Houston is not immune from other threats if the conflict between the United States and Iran escalates. “Petrochemical, Houston Ship Channel, oil and gas industry, how many millions of people could you affect rapidly.”Grantham said, “over at Fort Sam Houston, the army headquarters for north command, that’s in charge of response here in the United States, you know they gotta be on full alert.”