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The security firm investigating the hack of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) is pushing back on claims that the breach was the work of a lone hacker and not the Russian government.“CrowdStrike stands fully by its analysis and findings...

A Georgia trader has pleaded guilty to making illegal trades based off of stolen, unpublished press releases obtained from hackers who broke into three business newswires.The scheme — which resulted in the theft of more than 150,000 press releases...

Local officials in North Carolina have decided not to pay hackers who are demanding a $23,000 ransom in return for stolen data.Dena Diorio, the manager of Mecklenburg County, announced the decision Wednesday afternoon hours after telling reporters...

A top White House cybersecurity official is leaving the National Security Council and returning to the National Security Agency, the latest in a string of departures from the White House national security team.President Trump’s cybersecurity...

A U.S.-based cybersecurity firm has uncovered a new “highly active” espionage group believed to be based in Iran that is breaking into networks of government organizations and other firms located in the Middle East.Symantec released information...

A Russian man accused of launching a major hacking campaign against U.S. financial institutions was extradited to the United States on Monday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced Friday.Andrei Tyurin was...

North Korea blasted a U.S. complaint alleging the country was behind several global cyberattacks, calling the charges a “smear campaign” that could undermine talks between the two countries.Han Yong Song, a researcher at the Institute for...

Congress did not pass the bipartisan Secure Elections Act. This means in the two years since Russian interference disrupted our election systems, we have failed to improve security around the technologies that support our election processes....

A company focused on cybersecurity for the media industry says it has discovered that hackers are now using a technique designed to hide malicious code to commit digital ad fraud.Officials at Devcon told The Hill on...

Amazon and its home security subsidiary Ring are facing a federal lawsuit in California over allegations that its "lax security standards" led to a series of invasive and frightening hacks over the past year.The lawsuit, which alleges Ring...

Sen. Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) built a reputation as a lawmaker with a low profile and a high impact. His recent passing has brought one of his signature pieces of legislation back into the spotlight. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 instituted...

An unknown hacker remotely accessed the chemical controls of a water treatment plant in the City of Oldsmar, near Tampa, Fla., earlier this month. This breach is a reminder that the country’s water infrastructure is poorly secured in...

Swiss law enforcement raided the home of a hacker potentially responsible for breaching around 150,000 surveillance cameras, exposing sensitive footage from homes, hospitals and prisons. A spokesperson for Switzerland’s Federal Office of...

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said Friday that a hacker is stealing the identities of victims who died in the condominium collapse in his city. According to WPLG Local 10, which first reported the news, officials say that the hacker stole...

“It is estimated that 80 percent of American adults have had all of their personal data stolen by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), and the other 20 percent most of their personal data,” William Evanina told the Senate Select Committee on...

The Intercept’s Director of Information Security Micah Lee said Tuesday that hacker-obtained data revealed the conservative political group Tea Party Patriots maintains a much smaller network of supporters than previously advertised. In an...

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