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Casey Viner, an Ohio gamer accused of recruiting a prankster to make a bogus emergency call, pleaded guilty for his alleged part in the hoax that got an unarmed Kansas man killed by police.
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Fedir Hladyr, a 34-year-old Ukrainian accused of being the sysadmin of the FIN7 cybercrime group, pleaded guilty to hacking and wire fraud charges in Seattle.
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NSO Group, an Israeli spyware company that has been accused of helping authoritarian governments stifle dissent said it has adopted "a new human rights policy" to ensure its software is not misused.
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Americans commemorated 9/11 with solemn ceremonies and vows Wednesday to “never forget” 18 years after the deadliest terror attack on American soil.
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A Connecticut school district's teachers are working without computer access less than a week after a second malware attack targeted the district's servers.
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A former Haverford College student pleaded guilty to trying to hack the IRS from a school computer lab to obtain President Donald Trump's tax returns.
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Officials with the pension system for retired Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers and other state law enforcement officers say the FBI is investigating after computer hackers stole $4.2 million in funds.
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A Massachusetts mayor says hackers demanded $5.3 million from his city in a ransomware attack this summer.
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Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei accused U.S. authorities on Wednesday of attempting to break into its information systems and of trying to coerce its employees to gather information on the company.
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Researchers say suspected nation-state hackers infected Apple iPhones with spyware over two years in what security experts on Friday called an alarming security failure for a company whose calling card is privacy.
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Australia has formed a task force that includes a cybersecurity working group to crack down on attempts by foreign governments to meddle in Australian universities.
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A U.S. judge ordered a woman accused of hacking Capital One and at least 30 other organizations to remain in custody pending trial because she is a flight risk and poses a physical danger to herself and others.
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Cyberattacks that hit several Texas cities have put other local governments on guard, offering the latest evidence that hackers can halt routine operations by locking up computers and public records and demanding ransoms.
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Federal prosecutors say Paige Thompson, the woman accused of hacking Capital One and at least 30 other organizations, is a threat to herself and society, a flight risk and should be kept locked up until her trial.
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Lawyers for a transgender woman charged in a massive data breach at Capital One asked a judge to release her from federal custody, saying that for her to remain jailed with men is a serious threat to her mental health.
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Twitter said Monday it has suspended more than 200,000 accounts that it believes were part of a Chinese government influence campaign targeting the protest movement in Hong Kong.
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Two Florida men have pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges filed in southern Illinois, where they targeted people with fake technical support services.
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Servers found in Paige A. Thompson's bedroom contained data stolen from more than 30 unnamed companies, educational institutions and other entities.
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A parliamentary committee in the Czech Republic says a national security agency told its members that a foreign country state is believed to be behind a cyberattack on the Czech Foreign Ministry.
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U.N. experts say they are investigating at least 35 instances in 17 countries of North Koreans using cyberattacks to illegally raise money for weapons of mass destruction programs.
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The FBI is looking for outside contractors to monitor social media for potential threats, setting up a possible conflict with Facebook and other companies over privacy.
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A panel monitoring U.N. sanctions says North Korean cyber experts have illegally raised money for the country’s weapons of mass destruction programs “with total proceeds to date estimated at up to $2 billion.”
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Few data breach victims can ever pin the blame on any specific breach, whether that’s Equifax from 2017 or the recently disclosed breach at Capital One.
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Leaders of House and Senate committees want Capital One and Amazon to explain how a hacker accessed information on more than 100 million Capital One credit card customers and applicants.
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The FTC told consumers affected by the Equifax data breach that they are unlikely to get the full $125 cash payment that many sought.
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