Flaw In iPhone, iPads May Have Allowed Hackers to Steal Data for Years April 22, 2020 By Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn Apple Inc. is planning to fix a flaw that a security firm said may have left more than half a...
U.S., U.K. Issue Alert on Growing Use of Covid-themed Hacks April 9, 2020 By Alyza Sebenius and Kartikay Mehrotra Coronavirus-themed phishing attacks have become so pervasive that the governments of the U.S. and U.K. issued a joint warning Wednesday...
Marriott Says New Data Breach Affects 5.2 Million Guests April 1, 2020 By Dee-Ann Durbin Marriott says guests’ names, loyalty account information and other personal details may have been accessed in the second major data...
Hackers ‘Without Conscience’ Target Health-Care Providers April 1, 2020 By Ryan Gallagher When hackers broke into computers at Hammersmith Medicines Research, a London-based company that carries out clinical trials for new medicines,...
Insurer Chubb Investigating a ‘Computer Security Incident’ March 31, 2020 By Suzanne Barlyn Insurer Chubb Ltd on Thursday said it is investigating a computer security incident that may involve unauthorized access to data...
New Tool Fools Hackers into Sharing Keys for Better Cybersecurity February 28, 2020 Instead of blocking hackers, a new cybersecurity defense approach developed by University of Texas at Dallas computer scientists actually welcomes...
Viewpoint: How to Build a Morally Ethical Self-Driving Car February 6, 2020 By Mark Buchanan Not too long ago, tech enthusiasts were telling us that by 2020, we’d see self-driving cars hit the mainstream, with...
Fraudsters Posing as Art Dealer Got Gallery to Pay Millions January 30, 2020 By Ellen Milligan Hackers posing as a veteran London art dealer tricked a Dutch museum buying a John Constable painting into paying 2.4...
Viewpoint: Attack on Travelex Has Alarming Implications January 14, 2020 By Elisa Martinuzzi As ransomware attacks go, the cyber intrusion at Travelex that emerged on New Year’s Eve could have lasting consequences —...
Travelex Restoring Some Electronic Services After Cyber Attack January 13, 2020 Travelex is restoring operations to process foreign exchange orders electronically, it said on Monday, almost two weeks aftercyber hackers took...