Tag: Cybersecurity

The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite

News broke this weekend that China-backed hackers have compromised the wiretap systems of several U.S. telecom and internet providers, likely in an effort...

Apple fixes bugs in macOS Sequoia that broke some cybersecurity tools

In September, Apple released the new version of its computer operating system macOS 15, also known as Sequoia, which broke the functionality of...

American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems

U.S. public utility giant American Water says it has disconnected some of its systems after discovering that hackers breached its internal networks last...

Comcast says customer data stolen in ransomware attack on debt collection agency

U.S. telecom giant Comcast has warned that cybercriminals stole the personal data of more than 230,000 customers during a ransomware attack on a...

CISA issues warning about another Ivanti flaw under active attack

Hackers are exploiting yet another vulnerability in one of Ivanti’s widely used enterprise products, the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA warned in a...

How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death

In the early hours of January 20, 2023, a doctor’s user account logged onto the Hawaii Electronic Death Registration System from out of...