A Ransomware Attack Has Struck a Major US Hospital Chain
Universal Health Services, a hospital and health care network with more than 400 facilities across the United States, Puerto Rico, and United […]
Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks
Facebook Busts Russian Disinfo Networks as US Election Looms
Facebook announced on Thursday that it has taken down three “coordinated inauthentic behavior” networks promoting disinformation that included nearly 300 Facebook and […]
How Twitter Survived Its Biggest Hack—and Plans to Stop the Next One
July 15 was, at first, just another day for Parag Agrawal, the chief technology officer of Twitter. Everything seemed normal on the […]
Inside the Twitter Hack—and What Happened Next
But one of the first things Twitter realized in the immediate aftermath was that too many people had too much access to […]
A Patient Dies After a Ransomware Attack Hits a Hospital
A woman seeking emergency treatment for a life-threatening condition died after a ransomware attack crippled a nearby hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany, and […]
One Data Scientist’s Quest to Quash Misinformation
One day in early June 2018, Sara-Jayne Terp, a British data scientist, flew from her home in Oregon to Tampa, Florida, to […]
A Texas County Clerk’s Bold Crusade to Transform How We Vote
In the winter of 2017, shortly after STAR-Vote was declared a loss, Josh Benaloh was sitting in his office at Microsoft when […]
How We’ll Know the Election Wasn’t Rigged
Late last October—before health officials in central China began racing to contain a mysterious outbreak of viral pneumonia, before DIY hand sanitizer […]
The International Playbook for Foiling Russian Interference
By now, the Kremlin has meddled in so many elections around the world that the immune system of global democracy has gotten […]
Russia’s Fancy Bear Hackers Are Hitting US Campaign Targets Again
The Russian military intelligence hackers known as Fancy Bear or APT28 wreaked havoc on the 2016 election, breaking into the Democratic National […]