Tag: Hacking
EXPLAINER: Why the Colonial Pipeline hack matters
NEW YORK — A cyberattack on a critical U.S. pipeline is sending ripple effects across the economy, highlighting cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation's aging...
EXPLAINER: Why the Colonial Pipeline hack matters
NEW YORK — A cyberattack on a critical U.S. pipeline is sending ripple effects across the economy, highlighting cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation's aging...
EXPLAINER: Why the Colonial Pipeline hack matters
NEW YORK — A cyberattack on a critical U.S. pipeline is sending ripple effects across the economy, highlighting cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation's aging...
EXPLAINER: Why the Colonial Pipeline hack matters
NEW YORK — A cyberattack on a critical U.S. pipeline is sending ripple effects across the economy, highlighting cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the nation's aging...
Major US pipeline halts operations after ransomware attack
WASHINGTON — The federal government is working with the Georgia-based company that shut down a major pipeline transporting fuel across the East Coast after...
Ransomware gangs get more aggressive against law enforcement
RICHMOND, Va., — Police Chief Will Cunningham came to work four years ago to find that his six-officer department was the victim of a...
US government taking creative steps to counter cyberthreats
WASHINGTON — An FBI operation that gave law enforcement remote access to hundreds of computers to counter a massive hack of Microsoft Exchange email...
US takes new aim at ransomware after most costly year
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is taking new aim at ransomware after a year that officials say was the most costly on record for...
Facebook says it halts hackers tied to Palestinian security
JERUSALEM — Facebook said Wednesday it has broken up a hacker network used by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' intelligence service in an attempt to...
How the Kremlin provides a safe harbor for ransomware
BOSTON — A global epidemic of digital extortion known as ransomware is crippling local governments, hospitals, school districts and businesses by scrambling their data...