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A state program that was created to process unemployment applications in Arkansas for self-employed individuals or gig economy workers appears to have been illegally accessed and has been shut down.
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Texas’ transportation agency has become the second part of the state government to be hit by a ransomware attack in recent days.
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Huawei is at the center of the U.S.-Chinese conflict over Beijing’s technology ambitions, which Washington worries might erode American industrial leadership.
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The Senate came one vote short Wednesday of approving a proposal to prevent federal law enforcement from obtaining internet browsing information or search history without seeking a warrant.
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The Czech Republic and the United States have signed a joint declaration Wednesday for cooperating on security of 5G technology.
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As governments race to develop mobile tracing apps to help contain infections, attention is turning to how officials will ensure users’ privacy.
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Individuals and criminal organizations have taken immediate advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to find new ways of making money, says Europol, citing a spike in counterfeiting and cybercrime.
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A journalist who went to federal prison for hacking attacks on California media is now charged with a similar attack on a magazine.
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Thousands of small business owners reeling from the aggressive measures taken to halt the spread of the coronavirus may have had their personal information exposed last month on a government website that handles disaster loan applications.
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Cybercriminals are taking advantage of the pandemic, including hackers who target hospitals and medical research institutions that are studying the coronavirus, said the head of the FBI’s cyber division.
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The Supreme Court will decide a case from Georgia about the reach of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
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There have been many incidents where hackers targeted video conference calls as more and more people have to work remotely during the coronavirus outbreak.
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The Justice Department inspector general has found additional failures in the FBI’s handling of a secretive surveillance program that came under scrutiny after the Russia investigation.
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The Utah Attorney General’s Office is investigating the hacking of a video call hosted by a gubernatorial candidate who saw the call hijacked by pornographic images and racial slurs.
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Criminals have spotted a new business opportunity with the coronavirus pandemic and are now plundering the needy and the fearful and even disrupting the medical sector, online and off, with fraud, counterfeit products and cybercrime.
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New Mexico school districts, universities, and government agencies have collectively spent millions of dollars to regain control of their computer systems after being hit by ransomware.
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A California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for hacking an Atlanta-based company and trying to extort money in exchange for the return of the company’s intellectual property.
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Attorney General William Barr said there would be swift and severe action if a foreign government is behind disinformation campaigns aimed at spreading fear in the U.S. amid the coronavirus pandemic or a denial of service attack on the networks of the HHS.
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The U.S. Senate has voted to extend, rather than tweak, three surveillance powers that federal law enforcement officials use to fight terrorists, passing the bill back to an absent House and throwing the future of the authorities in doubt.
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The attention given to FISA has also cast a spotlight on cases where surveillance tools used to investigate foreign intelligence threats end up leading to prosecutions for commonplace, domestic crimes.
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Three surveillance powers available to the U.S. government are set to temporarily expire Sunday after a trio of senators opposed a bipartisan House bill that would renew the authorities and impose new restrictions.
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President Donald Trump on Thursday signed into law a bill that provides $1 billion to help small telecom providers replace equipment made by China’s Huawei and ZTE.
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House lawmakers prepared to extend surveillance authorities that expire this month, releasing legislation that represents a rare bipartisan agreement after members of both parties said they wanted to ensure the tools preserved civil liberties.
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Facebook and Twitter revealed evidence suggesting that Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election are getting more sophisticated and harder to detect.
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A former CIA software engineer accused of stealing a massive trove of the agency’s hacking tools and handing it over to WikiLeaks was convicted of only minor charges, after a jury deadlocked on the more serious espionage charges against him.
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