Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

Ransomware has no shortage of cautionary tales and wakeup calls from the past decade. But for local governments, this past year has […]

As we approach the July 4 holiday, the security world had no shortage of fireworks—starting with a hacker group, likely from China, […]

You probably think of Microsoft’s classic spreadsheet program Excel as mostly boring. Sure, it can wrangle data, but it’s not exactly Apex […]

On February 22, cybersecurity researcher Filippo Cavallarin told Apple that he had found a bug in macOS. Left unchecked, the vulnerability could […]

For anyone who’s worried that their phone might be hacked to track their location, who they call and when, and other metadata […]

When two countries begin to threaten war in 2019, it’s a safe bet that they’ve already been hacking each other’s networks. Right […]

At this point, you’re probably keeping an eye out for possible phishing messages in your email. You know the drill: If you […]

Not so long ago, companies that cracked personal devices on behalf of governments did so in secret, closely guarding even the descriptions […]

Amazon cloned an entire neighborhood, a dangerous hacker group takes aim at the US electrical grid, and the world remembers a running […]

On the scale of security threats, hackers scanning potential targets for vulnerabilities seems low. But when the hackers in question executed one […]