"Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center paid a $17,000 ransom in bitcoins to a hacker who seized control of the hospital's computer systems and would give back access only when the money was paid, the …
N.S.A. Gets Less Web Data Than Believed, Report Suggests
"A newly declassified report by the National Security Agency’s inspector general suggests that the government is receiving far less data from Americans’ international Internet communications than …
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Brennan’s biggest fear: Cyberattack on US critical infrastructure
"While preventing terrorist activity in the form of a bombing or shooting has been a top concern for the CIA in recent years, CIA Director John Brennan said threats to the homeland from the cyber …
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Hacker unleashes 17.8GB trove of data from a Turkish national police server
"A hacker aligned with the Anonymous hacking collective has unleashed a trove of data reportedly containing sensitive contents of a Turkish national police database in order to 'take action against …
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Extremely severe bug leaves dizzying number of apps and devices vulnerable
"Researchers have discovered a potentially catastrophic flaw in one of the Internet's core building blocks that leaves hundreds or thousands of apps and hardware devices vulnerable to attacks that can …
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U.S. Hacked Into Iran’s Critical Civilian Infrastructure For Massive Cyberattack, New Film Claims
"The film Zero Days by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, which is set to premiere at the Berlin film festival on Wednesday, will claim that the U.S.–Israel ‘Stuxnet’ worm – which destroyed around 1 …
Why protecting critical infrastructure from cyberattacks is a global emergency
"‘For example, access control systems could be compromised, thus allowing the entry of unauthorized persons seeking to obtain nuclear material or to damage the facility,’ says the NTI report . …
Sony Hackers Still Active, ‘Darkhotel’ Checks Out Of Hotel Hacking
"But Baumgartner says he’s seen a dramatic shift in the past few years in how these groups react to publicity. Take Darkhotel, the Korean-speaking attack group known for hacking into WiFi networks at …
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Hackers are holding a California hospital’s network hostage for $3.6 million
"The computers at a Los Angeles hospital have been down for more than a week after ransomware ended up on its internal network. Patients at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center have been transferred …
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Teen allegedly behind CIA Director hack arrested
"The months-long series of hacks and pranks by a group of alleged teenage hackers on the US government and its high-level officials might have finally come to an end. Police authorities in the UK, …
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