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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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Computer security expert James Glenn won a payout in a whistleblower lawsuit he filed against Cisco almost a decade ago, after he reported critical security flaws in Cisco video surveillance software.
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Transgender Paige Thompson was taken into custody at her home and has been charged with computer fraud and abuse in connection with hacking data from more than 100 million Capital One credit holders or applicants.
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With the school year beginning next week, a fourth Louisiana school district is assessing damage caused by hackers targeting its computer network.
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One of the country's biggest credit card issuers, Capital One Financial, is the latest big business to be hit by a data breach, disclosing that roughly 100 million people had some personal information stolen by a hacker.
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he Department of Homeland Security plans to issue a security alert for small planes, warning that modern flight systems are vulnerable to hacking if someone manages to gain physical access to the aircraft.
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Capital One says a hacker got access to the personal information of over 100 million individuals applying for credit.
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Marcus Hutchins was spared prison by a judge who said the misconduct was outweighed by his help in stopping a worldwide computer virus in 2017.
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Just as Marcus Hutchins was hailed as a hero for helping stop a worldwide computer virus in May 2017, his criminal past as a malware developer was about to catch up to him.
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New York state is strengthening a law requiring companies that handle consumers' personal data to notify them about any data breaches.
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has issued an emergency declaration after malware attacks against three school systems in the state have been detected.
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U.S. regulators have fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and are instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business.
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Three men who hacked U.S. computers from Romania have been sentenced to prison for a fraud scheme totaling more than $21 million, federal prosecutors said.
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Officials of an Indiana county say they are trying to determine the extent of a malware attack on the county’s computers.
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U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr says increased encryption of data on phones and computers and encrypted messaging apps are putting American security at risk.
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The Wall Street Journal says Equifax will pay around $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission over a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other private information of nearly 150 million people.
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A former National Security Agency contractor who stored two decades’ worth of classified documents at his Maryland home was sentenced Friday to nine years in prison.
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