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Hackers have stolen 6.7 billion yen ($60 million) worth of cryptocurrencies from Japanese Zaif digital currency exchange, the operators said.
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Foreign government hackers continue to target the personal email accounts of U.S. senators and their aides — and the Senate’s security office has refused to defend them, lawmaker says
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State officials insist they are on top of any potential vulnerabilities of Wisconsin's election system described by cybersecurity experts.
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New privacy features in Apple’s Safari browser seek to make it tougher for companies such as Facebook to track you.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday authorizing sanctions against foreigners who meddle in U.S. elections, acting amid criticism that he has not taken election security seriously enough
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North Korea strongly denied claims by the United States computer programmer Park Jin Hyok working for the North Korean government was involved in the hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment and the spread of the WannaCry ransomware.
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Kansas plans to spend more than $4.6 million on election security grants over the next five years as it aims to tighten cyber security, modernize voting equipment, audit election results and safeguard voter rolls.
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A Romanian court has ruled that Marcel Lazar Lehel, a hacker known as Guccifer, should be extradited to the U.S. to serve a 4½-year prison sentence.
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Google is taking its legal fight against an order requiring it to extend "right to be forgotten" rules to its search engines globally to Europe's top court.
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Colorado held a cyber-security and disaster exercise for dozens of state, county and federal elections officials to reinforce the state's preparedness for, and public confidence in, November's midterm elections.
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Russia's GRU military intelligence service is attracting increasing attention as allegations mount of devious and deadly operations on and off the field of battle.
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A former NASA contractor who allegedly threatened to publish nude photos of seven women unless they sent him other explicit pictures has been arrested at his Los Angeles home.
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Five Mexican plaintiffs are seeking 2.5 million Israeli shekels ($693,000) in compensation and an injunction to prevent the NSO Group from helping anyone spy on them.
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The attempt to infiltrate the U.S Senate network, linked to hackers aligned with Russia and brought to public attention in July, is a reminder of the risks, and the difficulty of assessing them.
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The FBI said that it has no evidence Hillary Clinton's private email server was compromised even though President Donald Trump tweeted a news report that alleged the Chinese had hacked it.
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USA Network announced the fourth and final season of the award-winning series "Mr. Robot." will return in 2019.
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Police have arrested a Connecticut man they allege hacked into someone's retirement account and stole more than $300,000.
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Facebook has pulled the Onavo Protect security app, one of its own products, from Apple's app store because it didn't want to stop tracking what people were doing on their iPhones.
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The Russian hackers indicted by the U.S. special prosecutor in July 2018 have spent years trying to steal the private correspondence of some of the world's most senior Orthodox Christian figures.
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Google alerted U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey's office that hackers with ties to a "nation-state" sent phishing emails to old campaign email accounts.
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Best known for its work on high-profile cyberattacks against companies including Target, JPMorgan Chase and Sony Pictures, FireEye is emerging as a key player in the fight against election interference and disinformation campaigns.
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Former NSA contractor Reality Winner sentenced to 63 months in prison for leaking a classified report on Russian hacking to The Intercept
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Chinese-owned telecommunications giant Huawei has been blocked from rolling out Australia's 5G network due to security concerns.
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An attempt to break into the Democratic National Committee’s massive voter database has been thwarted, according to a party official
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Microsoft stands virtually alone among tech companies with an aggressive approach that uses U.S. courts to fight computer fraud and seize hacked websites back.
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