Tag: Technology issues
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...
Online speech shield under fire as Trump Facebook ban stays
WASHINGTON — Lurking beneath Facebook's decision on whether to continue Donald Trump's suspension from its platform is a far more complex and consequential question:...
Pandemic gives boost as more states move to digital IDs
SALT LAKE CITY — The card that millions of people use to prove their identity to everyone from police officers to liquor store owners...
String of satellites baffles residents, bugs astronomers
PHILADELPHIA — A string of lights that lobbed across the night sky in parts of the U.S. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday had some...
NY AG: Broadband industry behind fake FCC comments
The Office of the New York Attorney General said in a new report that a campaign funded by the broadband industry submitted millions of...
Microsoft pledges to let EU users keep data inside bloc
LONDON — Microsoft is pledging to let business and public sector customers in the European Union keep cloud computing data inside the 27-nation bloc...
States push back against use of facial recognition by police
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Law enforcement agencies across the U.S. have used facial recognition technology to solve homicides and bust human traffickers, but concern about...
