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An attorney for the "penetration testers" hired by Iowa's judicial branch said his clients, "caught in a power struggle," want their charges dropped.
Pitt has paused testing of its Starship Technologies food delivery robots after a student raised concerns about safety issues.
IT workers have been storing files on their computers’ hard drives. One councilman’s alleged response: “That can’t be right? That’s real?”
Boffins claim code was fine... when they wrote it
Claimants are given a 12-digit number linked to their data, and if something goes wrong they can be refused food
The family, salary, and banking info of 20 million people were found disclosed.
Iowa court officials authorized "various means" to check county court's security.
A lack of encryption and easily enumerated IDs open users to a host of creepy attacks.
Ransomware group gains access to dental software backend, deploys ransomware on customers' systems.
Updated: In some countries, such lax security can be of real risk to a user’s personal safety.
DOJ charges Pakistani man with bribing AT&T employees more than $1 million to install malware on the company's network, unlock more than 2 million devices.
AVON, Conn. (AP) — Over six weeks, the vandals kept coming, knocking the school system's network offline several times a day...
Dude masquerades as GF, gets her personal data out of companies per GDPR.
A recent audit found the state’s Education Department was storing sensitive personal data in plaintext format and not updating its software.
More than 100 years’ worth of Lake City's municipal records were hijacked by unidentified hackers who encrypted the city’s computer systems and demanded more than $460,000 in ransom.
Britney Taylor reports: Daviess County Public Library workers begin three days of work to restore systems affected by last week’s ransomware attack. The...
First they hijacked my T-Mobile service, then they stole my Google and Twitter accounts and charged my bank with a $25,000 Bitcoin purchase. I'm stuck in my own personal Black Mirror episode. Why will no one help me?
Drugseeking, insurance fraud, blackmail/extortion. Yikes.