Hacking

In tech, it's accepted that a problem must occur before it can be fixed, but the autonomous car industry has the power to prepare for future cyber threats, protecting lives and livelihoods.

The federal government has more authority to regulate colored pencils than it does to enforce election security measures, the Brennan Center report warns.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is recklessly disregarding the warnings of national security experts who say the telecoms giant is tied to Chinese intelligence and would essentially siphon information back to China.

Facebook has sued the NSO Group for allegedly perpetrating a WhatsApp hack that targeted politicians and journalists in at least three different countries.

Cyberattacks, spanning 16 organizations in three continents, began Sept. 16 after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) announced its consideration of a ban on Russian athletes from all major sporting events, including the 2020 Summer Olympic Games and the 2022 World Cup.

Nothing is 100 percent secure. That's especially true for homes chock full of devices chirping away day and night on the internet.

A hacker working under the name Vanda The God claims to have breached the New Zealand Ministry of Health's database and has offered the medical details of 1 million New Zealanders for sale on Twitter. The hack revealed vulnerabilities in the system that date back to 2016.

"The bug is a local privilege escalation vulnerability that allows for a full compromise of a vulnerable device," warned Project Zero researcher Maddie Stone.

A former Arkansas VA database administrator pleaded guilty in federal court after being accused of offering to sell private information to an informant.

A hack group known as Tortoiseshell has set up a military heroes hiring website encouraging users to download a malicious app.

Elliott Gunton and his alleged accomplice Anthony Nashatka, working under the aliases Planet and Psycho, took an untold amount of money from their victims.

Retired Admiral William McRaven said the U.S. must recognize that its military superiority over China is at risk of disappearing.

The former secretary of defense said the days of cooperation with Russia are gone and that the U.S. must stand alongside its allies against President Vladimir Putin.

"She had a habit of openly struggling with her state of mind in public channels," said an online friend of accused hacker Paige A. Thompson.

In an interview with Newsweek's Adam Piore, former White House Cybersecurity Chief expresses his concern for the U.S. during the 2020 Presidential Election because of previous Russian cyber interference.

"Our investigation shows the lengths that unscrupulous sellers will go to constantly pull the wool over the eyes of shoppers," said Natalie Hitchins, of consumer watchdog Which?

Last month, at least three Florida towns and cities fell victim to similar incidents and decided to pay more than $1 million to hackers to restore their systems. It remains unknown if the attacks are linked.

A senior official complained that anti-Russian sentiment was based on "completely artificially made up, manufactured and fabricated facts."

The campaign, which is designed to hijack login details, is currently being circulated to Steam inboxes by accounts compromised to spew out spam messages.

Hannity—who once invited Assange to host his radio show—said the activist's case brings up "a fascinating legal issue about the freedom of the press in this country."

"I actually think that the synchronization, collusion, coordination, whatever word you want to use, was actually much broader than what we've been talking about," the former director of national intelligence said.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison blamed a "sophisticated state actor" for the breach.

The same Russian trolls who attempted to provoke racial tensions and influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election were also responsible for spreading propaganda against vaccinations.

The president phoned a New York Times reporter after a meeting with the Russian leader at the 2017 G20 summit and said he accepted Putin's denial.

"They believe that a lie repeated a thousand times will become the truth," said a Chinese government spokesperson.

Leaked diplomatic cables quote Xi as warning that China "would not submit to bullying...even if a trade war hurt everybody."

"When computer use is necessary, I order my employees or secretaries," Yoshitaka Sakurada said.

The breaches targeted turbofan engines used in U.S. and European commercial airliners.

Although an official said that the Iranian leader's phone would be replaced with a more secure device, he did not reveal further details or suggest who had hacked the phone.

China has been accused of implanting secret microchips into computers to spy on the world's top tech firms and even the U.S. government.