Cybersecurity

Hackers with a Chinese state-sponsored hacking operation infiltrated Treasury Department computers, leaving cybersecurity experts with serious concerns, as Christian Farr reports.

The Treasury Department says Chinese hackers remotely accessed several employee workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider.

A top White House official says a ninth U.S. telecoms firm has been confirmed to have been hacked as part of a sprawling Chinese espionage campaign that gave officials in Beijing access to private texts and phone conversations of an unknown number of Americans.

The new Apple iOS 18 feature allows texting features between iPhone users and Androids, but U.S. officials are urging caution, citing cybersecurity concerns.

FBI and CISA officials said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.

 U.S. officials are recommending Americans use encrypted messaging apps to ensure their communications stay hidden from foreign hackers, citing a sprawling Chinese hacking campaign.

Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.

Delta is seeking damages for its losses from the July IT incident, as well as litigation costs and punitive damages.

A broad Chinese hacking campaign against U.S. telecommunication networks targeted the phones of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, two sources familiar with the matter say. Another source told NBC News that people affiliated with the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris were also targeted.

The director of the National Security Agency said Sunday that a Chinese hack of three major telecommunications firms is under investigation but that it remains “premature” to discuss the case. 

One in 43 kids will have their personal information exposed, according to Javelin.

The data first appeared on April 8, when hacking group USDoD posted a database on “Breached,” a dark web forum, and claimed to have 2.9 billion rows of unencrypted records.

The FBI released a brief statement Monday that read, “We can confirm the FBI is investigating this matter.” The campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement.

One-time passwords have become a common method to restore consumer access to apps, but they are vulnerable to hacks.

CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers. It set off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers. CrowdStrike also outlined measures it would take to prevent the problem from repeating, including staggering...

As the world continues to recover from massive business and travel disruptions caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, malicious actors are trying to exploit the situation for their own gain.

As our reliance on technology increases, data breaches revealing sensitive information are becoming more common.

The investigation revealed that compromised data included phone and text message records of “nearly all” AT&T customers from May 1, 2022 to Oct. 31, 2022, as well as Jan. 2, 2023.

If your information was leaked as part of a data breach, here are a few easy ways to protect your sensitive details.

If you have an AT&T account, chances are you were impacted by the security breach. Here’s what to know.