Cyber Threat Forced Alaska Court System Offline May 4, 2021 The Alaska Court System was temporarily disconnected most of its operations from the internet after a cybersecurity threat on Saturday,...
Oklahoma House Unanimously Passes Cybercrime Bill March 16, 2021 A bill to address a growing trend of cybercrime unanimously passed the Oklahoma House of Representatives on March 10 with...
As They Focus on COVID-19 Surge, Hospitals Become Targets for Cyber Attacks December 8, 2020 By Wilson Ring and Marion Renault By late morning on Oct. 28, staff at the University of Vermont Medical Center noticed the hospital’s phone system wasn’t...
Worker Offered $1M to Sew Malware in Nevada August 28, 2020 By Ken Ritter A Russian citizen has been arrested and charged with offering an employee of a Nevada company $1 million to sew...
Websites of Many Kansas Counties May Lack Security Against Hackers: Report February 25, 2020 Many Kansas counties’ websites may be at risk as they lack basic protocols that make it easier for hackers to...
Wawa Facing Lawsuits Over Data Breach at All of Its Stores December 31, 2019 The Wawa convenience store chain is facing a wave of lawsuits over a data breach that affected its 850 locations...
‘Sextortion’ Is Emerging Cyber Risk for Businesses, Warns Beazley February 21, 2019 A new form of online bribery is emerging where cyber criminals attempt to extort cryptocurrency by claiming to have potentially...
Hackers with Russian Ties Hit 3 E. European Companies: Cyber Security Firm October 17, 2018 By Jack Stubbs Hackers have infected three energy and transport companies in Ukraine and Poland with sophisticated new malware and may be planning...
More Hackers Target Red-Hot Cryptocurrency Space: Report February 2, 2018 By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss Bitcoin’s popularity and the emergence of about 1,500 other digital coins or tokens have drawn more hackers into the red-hot...
Basic IT Best Practice Would Have Limited WannaCry Cyber Attack: UK Report October 30, 2017 By Nate Lanxon and Tim Ross The U.K. government holds North Korea responsible for the global WannaCry ransomware attack that crippled parts of the state-run National...