cyber security

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…

A group of the world's top cybersecurity experts recommend against giving government agencies like the FBI and the National Security Agency backdoor access to the encrypted information stored by tech giants like Google and Facebook, saying it would put sensitive data at risk of being compromised by…

Updated | Hacking Team, a cybersecurity company that sells hacking software to law enforcement in dozens of countries, just got hacked itself. The Italian outfit’s security services use malware and vulnerabilities to tap into target computers and phones.... Read more

UC Irvine Medical Center said 4,859 patients are being notified of a data breach involving their sensitive medical information. The hospital said it discovered in March that an employee improperly accessed information including patient names, dates of birth, addresses, diagnoses, medical tests…

Take it from someone who has spent 41 years of his career as a mathematician, cryptographer and technical director at the U.S. National Security Agency: Healthcare is hugely vulnerable to cybercrime. And this is a reality health organizations need to quickly come to terms with so they can better…

The hacking of the health records of as many as 1 in 3 Americans has awoken the health care industry to an unpleasant reality: After spending billions to install computerized documents in hospitals and networks, it now must spend billions more to make them secure.... Read more