Cybersecurity

Ajit Pai, Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission, wants to overturn the Obama Administration's regulations on net neutrality. Portugal currently does not have net neutrality. The above article by Michael Hiltzik provides an outlook of the potential problems the US might face…

Dennis Green-Buisness Insider Just this week, Forever 21 announced that customers who shopped at a local Forever 21 store earlier this year may have had their credit card information stolen. According to Forever 21, the investigation is ongoing but an unknown number of credit card users during…

In his article in the New York Times, David D. Kirkpatrick reports that Britain's chief of the National Cyber Security Center acknowledged increased Russian cyber attacks on multiple fronts of British infrastructure. Prime Minister Theresa May also addressed the same concern in a speech given…

Hyatt Hotels announced this week that they discovered and investigated a data breach to customer card information during the months of March to July of this year. Multiple locations across multiple countries were affected by the hack, including some of Hyatt Hotel's United States locations in…

Photo Above: United States soldiers during a joint military exercise with the South Korean military in Pocheon, near the heavily fortified border with North Korea. Credit: Jung Yeon-Je/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images South Korean lawmaker Rhee Cheol-hee revealed Tuesday morning that last…

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Rising outbreaks of the zoonotic vector-borne Oropouche virus in Brazil cause concern among researchers at University of São Paulo. The virus is primarily spread through midge bites, however there have been some cases of transmission through regional mosquitoes. One particular researcher's…

WASHINGTON — The Senate headed into its August recess on Wednesday without voting on a cybersecurity bill, adding it to a contentious to-do list for September that includes a push to disapprove the Iran nuclear deal and a spending fight mired in abortion politics... Read more

The nation that brought the world the mushroom cloud is now hard at work on a new project: coming up with cyberweapons so strong that their very existence would deter foreign governments from attacking U.S. databases and crucial computer systems... Read more

New cars carry more interlinked computing systems than a typical small business. Buried under hoods and behind touchscreen control panels, microprocessors run by millions of lines of code operate an array of crucial functions, from brakes and steering to headlights and horns. Automakers are…

United Continental Holdings Inc has awarded millions of frequent flier miles to hackers who have uncovered gaps in the carrier's web security, in a first for the U.S. airline industry. United confirmed with Reuters that it has paid out two awards worth 1 million miles each, worth dozens of free…

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Thursday revealed that 21.5 million people were swept up in a colossal breach of government computer systems that was far more damaging than initially thought, resulting in the theft of a vast trove of personal information, including Social Security numbers…

The outages came one after another: one of the nation's biggest airlines, its largest financial news publication and its main stock exchange. Wednesday morning's spate of technological foul-ups grounded United Airlines flights, sidelined the Wall Street Journal's website and halted trading for…