Cybersecurity experts say the California Department of Justice apparently failed to follow basic security procedures on its website, exposing the personal information of potentially hundreds of thousands of gun owners.
Iran’s state-owned Khuzestan Steel Company was forced to halt production after being hit by a cyberattack, apparently marking one of the biggest such assaults on the country’s strategic industrial sector in recent memory.
State-backed Russian hackers have engaged in “strategic espionage” against governments, think tanks, businesses and aid groups in 42 countries supporting Kyiv, Microsoft says in a new report.
The German Green party, which is part of the country’s governing coalition, says its IT system was hit by a cyberattack last month that affected email accounts belonging to Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Economy Minister Robert Habeck.
A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Seattle tech worker of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019.
Experts believe developing countries will remain ripe targets for ransomware attacks, as they have invested in digitizing their economy and systems but don't have as sophisticated defenses as wealthier nations.
Hired by the CIA in 2010, Schulte said he worked on a team that helped verify the location of Osama bin Laden before the al-Qaida leader was killed in a U.S. overnight raid in Pakistan.
As of June 15, 2022, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate — and a few still claim to adore.
Cybersecurity training grounds are popping up for students, recent grads and people who don’t even attend the college but are interested in cybersecurity careers.
Twitter plans to offer Elon Musk access to its “firehose” of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets in an effort to push forward an acquisition deal, according to multiple reports.
A Spanish judge will travel to Israel to seek testimony from the head of NSO Group, the maker of the controversial Pegasus spyware used in tapping politicians’ phones in Spain.
Elon Musk is threatening to walk away from his $44 billion bid to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot and fake accounts.
CISA released a final version of an advisory it previously sent state officials on voting machine vulnerabilities in Georgia and other states that voting integrity activists say weakens a security recommendation on using barcodes to tally votes.
Electronic warfare is a critical but largely invisible aspect of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Military commanders largely shun discussing it, fearing they’ll jeopardize operations by revealing secrets.
The FBI thwarted a planned cyberattack on Boston Children’s Hospital by hackers sponsored by the Iranian government, FBI Director Christopher Wray said.
A CISA advisory, details nine vulnerabilities in Dominion Voting Systems’ equipment and suggests protective measures to prevent or detect their exploitation.
Another attempted hacking of a Costa Rican government agency’s computer system led the country’s public health agency to shut down its systems to protect itself, complicating the medical care of thousands of people.
witter will pay a $150 million penalty and put in new safeguards to settle federal regulators’ allegations that the social platform failed to protect the privacy of users’ data over a six-year span.
The District of Columbia sued Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, seeking to hold him personally liable for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a privacy breach of millions of Facebook users’ personal data.
The personal information of more than half a million Chicago Public Schools students and staff was compromised in a ransomware attack last December, but the vendor didn’t report it to the district until last month, officials said.
As Ukrainians flooded into Poland, Russian invaders, a hacking group aligned with the Kremlin sought to spread rumors that criminal gangs were waiting to harvest the organs of child refugees.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the social media platform are fake or spam.
The Conti ransomware gang that infiltrated some Costa Rican government computer systems has upped its threat, saying its goal is now to overthrow the government.