TOKYO — The worldwide “ransomware” cyberattack wreaked havoc in hospitals, schools and offices across the globe on Monday. Asia reported thousands of new cases but no large-scale breakdowns as workers started the week by booting up their computers.
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), the European Union’s main la enforcement agency, released updated statistics on the recent massive cyber attack which affected dozens of countries around the world over the weekend.
Attempts at cyber wire fraud globally, via emails purporting to be from trusted business associates, surged in the last seven months of 2016, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a warning to businesses.
ACTRESS Sienna Miller appears to have become the latest celebrity to have intimate pictures stolen by hackers and posted online.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate committee that oversees the FBI, said publicly this week that the government paid $900,000 to break into the locked iPhone of a gunman in the San Bernardino, Calif., shootings.
Baltimore – National officials rolled out a new van Tuesday that will enable detectives to test-fire weapons and rapidly analyze bullets and shell casings recovered at crime scenes rather than sending them to labs and waiting days for results.
The hacking group that goes by the name The Dark Overlord doubled down on its piracy of the new season of Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black” by claiming to have absconded with content from four other networks as well.
Israel thwarted a large cyberattack on government offices and private citizens, the National Cyber Bureau at the Prime Minister’s Office said Wednesday.
The French consulate in New York, where thousands of expatriates were registered to cast ballots in their presidential election, was briefly evacuated on Saturday following a bomb threat, AFP reported.
Dramatic footage has been released online showing private security guards firing machine guns at Somali pirates trying to hijack their cargo ship.
