At a time of widespread digital insecurity it turns out that the oldest and simplest computer fix there is — turning a device off then back on again — can thwart hackers from stealing information from smartphones.

A cyberattack that crippled the computer systems of University of Vermont Health Network last fall happened after an employee opened a personal email on a company laptop while on vacation.

A former CIA software engineer can represent himself at his upcoming retrial on espionage charges, a judge said Monday.

A British man has been charged in the United States in connection with a Twitter hack last summer that compromised the accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls, the Justice Department said.

Saudi Arabia’s state oil giant acknowledged that leaked data from the company — files now apparently being used in a cyber-extortion attempt involving a $50 million ransom demand — likely came from one of its contractors.

Russian hacker Peter Levashov, known internationally as the “bot master”, was sentenced to the 33 months he has already served in custody on federal charges he operated the notorious Kelihos botnet.

The United Nations’ human rights chief voiced alarm Monday over the reported use of military-grade malware from Israel-based NSO Group to spy on journalists, human rights activists and political dissidents.

Virginia Tech says it was targeted in two recent cyberattacks but feels confident no data was stolen.

Kaseya products were previously abused to deliver malware and the company had done poorly when it came to patching vulnerabilities.

President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call that he must “take action” against cybercriminals acting in his country and that the U.S. reserves the right to “defend its people and its critical infrastructure” from future attacks.

A utility that provides power in rural southeastern Alabama was hit by a ransomware attack that meant customers temporarily can’t access their account information, but an executive said Tuesday that systems were beginning to be brought back online.

In the past few weeks, ransomware criminals claimed as trophies at least three North American insurance brokerages that offer policies to help others survive the very network-paralyzing, data-pilfering extortion attacks they themselves apparently suffered.