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The Wall Street Journal says Equifax will pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people.
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A former National Security Agency contractor who stored two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison.
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A former National Security Agency contractor awaits sentencing in Baltimore’s federal court for storing two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home.
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California’s state auditor raised alarms Tuesday about information security in some state offices and called for additional oversight and regular assessments.
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Microsoft says it has detected more than 740 infiltration attempts by nation-state actors in the past year targeting U.S.-based political parties, campaigns and other democracy-focused organizations.
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Ukraine has arrested an alleged major computer hacker who has been sought by the United States for years.
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US schools increasingly targeted with cyberattacks. The widespread adoption of education technology also worsens an attack’s effects when instructional tools are rendered useless by internet outages.
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Many U.S. counties are buying new electoral systems, but they still run on old software that will soon be outdated and more vulnerable to hackers.
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Clemson and other universities are working to improve cybersecurity.
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Many new electoral systems still run on old software that will soon be outdated and more vulnerable to hackers.
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Premera Blue Cross, the largest health insurer in the Pacific Northwest, has agreed to pay $10 million to 30 states following an investigation into a data breach that exposed confidential information on more than 10 million people across the country.
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Google contractors regularly listen to and review some recordings of what people say to artificial-intelligence system Google Assistant, via their phone or through smart speakers such as the Google Home.
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An Arizona man has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for hacking into computer systems operated by his former California employer and then deleting its website and marketing materials.
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Marriott says it will fight a $123 million U.K. government fine related to its massive data breach.
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Later this month, three years after federal agents raided Harold Martin's house, the case is scheduled to be resolved, but the identity of the Shadow Brokers will remain a public mystery.
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Hacker who disrupted online gaming services such as the Sony PlayStation Network, Steam, Xbox, EA, Riot Games, and Nintendo with DDoS attacks sentenced to prison.
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The case of whether hackers may have tampered with elections in Georgia has taken another strange turn.
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A Georgia state agency says a cyberattack has forced it to shut down some court websites.
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A Boston suburb has voted to ban the use of facial recognition technology by police and other city departments.
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Baltimore City officials approved using $10 million in excess revenue to cover the ongoing cost of the cyber attacks that immobilized some of the city’s systems almost two months ago.
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A former Equifax executive who sold stock a week and a half before the company announced a massive data breach was sentenced Thursday to serve four months in federal prison for insider trading.
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Lake City, Florida, a community of about 13,000 residents, says it paid about $460,000 in bitcoin to recover from a ransomware attack.
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Iran claims no cyber attack against the Islamic republic has ever succeeded, after American media reported the US launched one last week amid a standoff between the two countries.
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A former congressional staffer was sentenced to four years in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to illegally posting online the home addresses and telephone numbers of five Republican senators who backed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.
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U.S. military cyber forces launched a strike against Iranian military computer systems on as President Donald Trump backed away from plans for a more conventional military strike in response to Iran's downing of a U.S. surveillance drone, U.S. officials said.
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