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The hacking of U.S. election systems, including by foreign adversaries, is inevitable, and the real challenge is ensuring the country is resilient enough to withstand catastrophic problems from cyber breaches, government officials said.
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New Citizens Lab report details Iran-linked multilingual campaign aimed at seeding anti-Saudi, anti-Israel and anti-American stories across the internet.
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A former government intelligence analyst has been charged with leaking classified documents about military campaigns against terrorist group al-Qaeda to a reporter.
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Chicago man sentenced to 3 years in prison for hacking the servers of his former employer and for threatening FBI agents, witnesses and the prosecutor in his trial.
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Baltimore’s government on Tuesday rushed to shut down most of its computer servers after its network was hit by a ransomware virus. Officials believe it has not touched critical public safety systems.
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European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal marketplaces for drugs, hacking tools and financial-theft wares in raids in the United States, Germany and Brazil.
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2020 presidential campaigns are preparing for cyber threats, which includes training, mandatory use of 2FA, and phishing simulations.
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A defiant Julian Assange told a London court he will fight extradition to the United States to face charges of conspiring to hack into a Pentagon computer, arguing that his work as WikiLeaks founder has benefited the public.
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Facebook is launching a major redesign of its app and website built around letting people connect with groups that share their interests — an attempt to shift its focus away from the untrammeled public sharing that has helped spread hate speech, extremism, misinformation and livestreamed video of massacres.
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Ireland’s privacy regulator says it’s investigating Facebook over the social media giant’s recent revelation that it had left hundreds of millions of user passwords exposed.
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Canada’s privacy czar said Thursday that he is taking Facebook to court after finding that lax practices at the social media giant allowed personal information to be used for political purposes.
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British officials downplayed reports that Prime Minister Theresa May will allow China’s Huawei to supply parts of the U.K.’s new internet network, a decision that goes against U.S. pleas to ban the firm as it could help Beijing’s spying efforts.
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Facebook said it expects a fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission, which is investigating whether the social network violated its users’ privacy.
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A top White House official told Kirstjen Nielsen, then Homeland Security secretary, not to bring up election security with President Donald Trump, steering her away from discussing a critical national security threat with a president who bristles at suggestions that Russian interference contributed to his 2016 victory.
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Several critics of Kaspersky Lab have been targeted by a mysterious individual in an operation similar to that targeting Citizen Lab recently.
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The Cuomo administration has launched a survey to give New Yorkers an opportunity to provide feedback about online data privacy issues.
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One of Idaho’s largest insurance companies, Blue Cross of Idaho, said someone hacked its website and obtained access to the personal information of about 5,600 customers, including their names, claim payment information and codes indicating medical procedures they may have undergone.
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The Czech Republic’s highest court says a former justice minister violated the rights of an alleged Russian hacker by allowing his extradition to the U.S. before a separate asylum case was finalized.
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Minnesota Department of Human Services officials say a data breach at the agency may have exposed the personal information of about 11,000 people.
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New details emerge about the malware stored on the USB drive carried by the Chinese woman arrested at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club.
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A former congressional staffer has pleaded guilty to five federal offenses that stem from 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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Some of the top research universities in the US are cutting ties with Chinese tech giant Huawei as the company faces allegations of bank fraud and trade theft.
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A Chinese woman carrying a device containing computer malware lied to Secret Service agents and briefly gained admission to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club over the weekend during his Florida visit.
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Harold T. Martin III, a former NSA contractor accused of stealing classified documents from the agency’s headquarters, pleaded guilty to willful retention of national defense information.
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A former National Security Agency contractor accused in a massive theft of classified information is expected to plead guilty Thursday in what U.S. prosecutors had once portrayed as a “breathtaking” breach at the nation’s biggest spy shop.
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