The U.S. government’s fight to choke off ransom payments collected by hackers hit a major snag Thursday, following news that Colonial Pipeline Co. paid a hefty sum to hackers who for several days this week effectively shut down the country’s …
An Albany, New York-area school district is investigating a malware attack that forced students in grades 7 through 12 into all-remote learning on Monday, district officials announced. Officials at the Guilderland Central School District said on the district’s website that …
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is undertaking a series of “sprints” to enhance American cybersecurity in the wake of major attacks. “I am announcing today a series of 60-day sprints, each focused on the most important and most urgent …
Commercial lines insurer CNA reported that it has sustained a “sophisticated cybersecurity attack” that caused a network disruption and impacted certain CNA systems, including corporate email. Upon learning of the incident on March 21, the insurer said it immediately engaged …
Hackers aiming to call attention to the dangers of mass surveillance say they were able to peer into hospitals, schools, factories, jails and corporate offices after they broke into the systems of a security-camera startup. That California startup, Verkada, said …
The New York Department of Financial Services’ (DFS) Cybersecurity Division issued a March 9 letter to regulated entities regarding the recent Microsoft Exchange breach in which thousands of organizations were compromised via vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Exchange servers. On March …
Real estate software maker RealPage has been denied a $6 million computer crime insurance coverage claim because the stolen funds were not in its possession but were instead being held by a payment processing firm at the time of a …
Microsoft Corp.’s failure to fix known problems with its cloud software facilitated the massive SolarWinds hack that compromised at least nine federal government agencies, according to security experts and the office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden. A vulnerability first publicly …
A hacking campaign that used a U.S. tech company as a springboard to compromise a raft of U.S. government agencies is “the largest and most sophisticated attack the world has ever seen,” Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith said. The operation, …
A hacker’s botched attempt to poison the water supply of a small Florida city is raising alarms about just how vulnerable the nation’s water systems may be to attacks by more sophisticated intruders. Treatment plants are typically cash-strapped, and lack …
