The world’s largest meat processor said on Wednesday that it paid an $11 million ransom in Bitcoin to the hackers behind an attack that forced the shutdown last week of […]
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Back to news homeAre We Waiting for Everyone to Get Hacked?
‘Playing with fire’These days, Mr. Panetta has swapped analogies. Like most Californians, he has fire on his mind. The former secretary of defense resides on his family’s old walnut farm […]
Irish Hospitals Hit by Cyberattacks, Forcing an I.T. Shutdown
Health network officials have described the attack as “highly sophisticated” and claim attackers used an undiscovered bug in software known as a zero-day to breach their systems. They did not […]
Colonial Pipeline Hack Shows Risk to US Energy Independence
HOUSTON — When OPEC barred oil exports to the United States in 1973, creating long gasoline lines, President Richard Nixon pledged an effort that would combine the spirit of the […]
Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5 Million in Ransom to Hackers
In a separate ransomware attack on the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, hackers said the price the police offered to pay was “too small” and dumped 250 gigabytes of the […]
How the Colonial Pipeline Became a Vital Artery for Fuel
That gave them an enormous competitive advantage over the East Coast refineries that imported oil from abroad or by rail from North Dakota once the shale boom there took off. […]
Five Tech Commandments to a Safer Digital Life
Tech is always changing, and so is the way we use it. That means we are always finding new ways to let our guard down for bad actors to snoop […]
FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked by a Nation-State
WASHINGTON — For years, the cybersecurity firm FireEye has been the first call for government agencies and companies around the world who have been hacked by the most sophisticated attackers, […]