Last week, the world narrowly escaped what could have been one of the largest and most crippling cyber attacks in history. And yet, there has been minimal media coverage of what (almost) happened.
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The United States and Britain imposed sanctions on China’s elite hacking units Monday, accusing China’s top spy agency of a yearslong effort to place malware in America’s electrical grids, defense systems and other critical infrastructure, and of stealing the voting rolls for 40 million British citizens.
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By Sarah Krueger, WRAL reporter Capital One customers have become the victims of one of the largest data breaches in history. The personal information of about 100 million people in the U.S. was stolen, which is roughly a third of the population. The data includes Social Security numbers, phone...
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Hoping to thwart a sophisticated malware system linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers, the FBI has made an urgent request to anybody with one of the devices: Turn it off, and then turn it back on.
Read MoreLots of news Monday about cybersecurity, Facebook apps, email security and Russian cyberthreats. Here’s a wrapup.
Read MoreA bitcoin mining company in Slovenia has been hacked, for the possible theft of tens of million of dollars, renewing questions about the security of the virtual currency just days before it is due to start trading on major U.S. exchanges.
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