G7 Leaders Vow to Combat Surging Ransomware Attacks Against Financial Services October 15, 2020 By Andrea Shalal and Jan Strupczewski Financial leaders of the world’s seven biggest economies on Tuesday vowed to fight rising ransomware attacks amid the COVID-19 pandemic,...
White House Vows 150 Million Rapid COVID Tests for Schools, Seniors September 29, 2020 By Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal President Donald Trump, under fire over his handling of the coronavirus epidemic, announced on Monday the federal government would ship...
Small Businesses See Coronavirus Effect Lasting 12-16 Months May 12, 2020 By Andrea Shalal Eighty-one percent of small U.S. companies surveyed by Veem, a global payments network, expect the new coronavirus pandemic to affect...
Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Says Coronavirus Lockdown to Last Until June March 23, 2020 By Andrea Shalal and Susan Heavey The lockdown affecting large segments of the American public to try to curb the spread of the coronavirus is likely...
German Government Marshals Defenses Against Powerful Cyber Attack March 2, 2018 By Thorsten Severin and Andrea Shalal Germany’s government was marshaling its defenses on Thursday against a powerful cyber attack that lawmakers said had breached the foreign...
Yahoo Fails to Cooperate with Hack Probe, Says German Cyber Agency May 11, 2017 By Andrea Shalal Germany’s federal cyber agency said on Thursday that Yahoo Inc. had not cooperated with its investigation into a series of...
Malaysian Plane Tragedy Increases Pressure for Plane Tracking after MH370 April 6, 2014 By Andrea Shalal and Tim Hepher Four weeks into the hunt for MH370, pressure is building for better ways of tracking aircraft as regulators wrestle with...
Malaysia Jet Search Highlights Doubts over Air Traffic Radar March 24, 2014 By Tim Hepher, Andrea Shalal and Brenda Goh The ease with which a big jetliner melted into the ether after vanishing from Malaysian radar illustrates an uncomfortable paradox...
Analysis of Possible Plane Debris Slowed by Vast Size of Satellite Data March 21, 2014 By Andrea Shalal and Jane Wardell Delays in identifying satellite images that may show debris of a missing Malaysian plane in the southern Indian Ocean were...
Malaysia Plane Loss Spurs Calls to Upload ‘Black Box’ Data to the ‘Cloud’ March 20, 2014 By Andrea Shalal The disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 has prompted calls for in-flight streaming of black box data over remote areas,...