Cybersecurity
Cyberattack hits Norway, pro-Russian hacker group suspected
A hacker program is open on a laptop on 7May 2022. A cyberattack temporarily knocked out public and private websites in Norway in the past 24 hours, Norwegian authorities said Wednesday. Silas Stein | Picture Alliance | Getty Images A cyberattack temporarily knocked out public and private websites in Norway in the past 24 hours, […]
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Hackers can bring ships and planes to a grinding halt. And it could become much more common
Container cargo ships sit off shore from the Long Beach/Los Angeles port complex in Long Beach, CA, on Wednesday, October 6, 2021. Jeff Gritchen | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Armed with little more than a computer, hackers are increasingly setting their sights on some of the biggest things that humans can build. Vast container […]
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$100 million worth of crypto has been stolen in another major hack
So-called blockchain bridges have become a prime target for hackers seeking to exploit vulnerabilities in the world of decentralized finance. Jakub Porzycki | NurPhoto | Getty Images Hackers have stolen $100 million in cryptocurrency from Horizon, a so-called blockchain bridge, in the latest major heist in the world of decentralized finance. Details of the attack […]
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Former Amazon employee convicted in Capital One hack
Signage is displayed on the exterior of a Capital One Financial Corp. cafe branch in Walnut Creek, California, U.S., on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Bloomberg | Getty Images A former Amazon Web Services employee was convicted of hacking into Capital One and stealing the data of more than 100 million people nearly three years ago in […]
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UK approves WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to U.S.
WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange leaves Westminster Magistrates Court in London, Britain. Henry Nicholls | Reuters The U.K. has approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the U.S., where he is wanted over the publication of hundreds of thousands of classified military documents and diplomatic cables. The deportation was approved Friday by U.K. Home […]
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Wickr, Amazon’s encrypted chat app, has a child sex abuse problem — and little is being done to stop it
Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Wickr Me, an encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, has become a go-to destination for people to exchange images of child sexual abuse, according to court documents, online communities, law enforcement and anti-exploitation activists. It’s not the only tech platform that needs to crack down on […]
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Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi surges 50% after report that regulators are ending probes
Budrul Chukrut | LightRocket | Getty Images Shares of Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi surged more than 50% in pre-market trade in the U.S. on Monday after the Wall Street Journal reported that regulators are concluding investigations into the company. The WSJ report said authorities would lift a ban on Didi adding new users as early […]
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Feds say Twitter used contact info collected for security purposes to target ads
Musk would have been appointed to Twitter’s board on Saturday, but the world’s richest man informed the company on the day that he would not, in fact, be taking the board seat. Andrew Burton | Getty Images News | Getty Images Twitter reached a $150 million settlement with the Department of Justice and Federal Trade […]
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America’s small businesses aren’t ready for a cyberattack
Some of the highest profile cyberattacks on the U.S. in recent years are alleged to have originated in Russia, including the 2021 attack on the Colonial Pipeline — the largest fuel pipeline in the U.S. — the SolarWinds attack in 2020, and the 2016 hacking into the Democratic National Committee. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in […]
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China has signaled easing of its tech crackdown — but don’t expect a policy U-turn
China has shown signs of easing its crackdown on the technology sector which has wiped billions of dollars of value from its most prominent companies. But analysts said Beijing’s recent positive rhetoric should not be mistaken for a reversal of policy. “I think the big tech companies will have a grace period for maybe the […]
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