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U.S. officials are issuing new warnings about China’s ambitions in artificial intelligence and a range of advanced technologies that could eventually give Beijing a decisive military edge and possible dominance over health care and other essential sectors in America.
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Snapchat’s corporate parent disclosed Thursday that its ad sales are being hurt by a privacy crackdown that rolled out on Apple’s iPhones earlier this year, raising investor fears that the app’s financial growth is going into a tailspin.
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Help for roughly 100,000 teachers whose Social Security numbers were made vulnerable in a massive state data breach could cost Missouri as much as $50 million, the governor’s office confirmed Tuesday.
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Sinclair Broadcast Group suffered a data breach and is still working to determine what information the data contained.
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Missouri Gov. Mike Parson condemned the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper for exposing a flaw in a state database that allowed public access to thousands of teachers' Social Security numbers, even though the paper held off from reporting about the flaw until after the state could fix it.
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Customers of Ecuador’s largest bank continued to experience service disruptions on Oct. 15th following a cyberattack on the institution several days earlier.
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South Korea said Friday it’s asked Interpol for help to arrest two foreigners it alleges played a leading role in cyberattacks and large-scale extortion that targeted South Korean and U.S. companies.
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The U.S. is sitting down to talk cybersecurity strategy this week with 30 countries while leaving out one key player: Russia.
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Most Americans across party lines have serious concerns about cyberattacks on U.S. computer systems and view China and Russia as major threats, according to a new poll.
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The CIA says it will create a top-level working group on China as part of a broad U.S. government effort focused on countering Beijing's influence.
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Russia accounted for most state-sponsored hacking over the past year, with a 58% share, according to Microsoft's Digital Defense Report, which covers July 2020 through June 2021.
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The False Claims Act against could result in legal action against contractors who misuse federal dollars by failing to disclose hacks or by having deficient cybersecurity standards.
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Many Kansas school districts aren’t taking basic steps to protect their computer systems and the privacy of sensitive information collected about students.
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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has launched a Cyber Command Center that will deal with threats to government computers.
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Computer systems are being restored in Pottawatomie County are after hackers launched a ransomware attack on Sept. 17, county officials said Friday.
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An Alabama woman whose 9-month-old daughter died has filed suit against the hospital where she was born claiming it did not disclose that its computer systems had been crippled by a cyberattack, which resulted in diminished care that resulted in the baby’s death.
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There’s a severe shortage of cybersecurity professionals and not enough financial firepower to compete with federal counterparts, global brands and specialized cybersecurity firms.
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The Port of Houston, a critical piece of infrastructure along the Gulf Coast, issued a statement saying it had successfully defended against an attempted hack in August and “no operational data or systems were impacted.”
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An Indian media conglomerate, a police department and the agency responsible for the country’s national identification database have been hacked, likely by a state-sponsored Chinese group.
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Lithuanian cybersecurity experts are urging the country’s government agencies to abandon the use of Chinese smartphone brands after an investigation identified security vulnerabilities and censorship concerns with certain devices.
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Britain’s defense minister apologized and his ministry suspended an official Tuesday after a “significant” data breach involving the email addresses of dozens of Afghan interpreters hoping to settle in the U.K.
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The Biden administration announced sanctions against Russia-based virtual currency brokerage SUEX OTC, that officials say helped at least eight ransomware gangs launder virtual currency.
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Indonesian authorities have found no evidence that the main intelligence service’s computers were compromised, after a U.S.-based security firm alerted them of a suspected breach by a Chinese hacking group.
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On Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, a divided federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit challenging a portion of the National Security Agency's warrantless surveillance of Americans' international email and phone communications.
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Three former U.S. intelligence and military officials have admitted providing sophisticated computer hacking technology to the United Arab Emirates and agreed to pay nearly $1.7 million to resolve criminal charges.
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