Cybersecurity

October isn’t just about tricks and treats — it’s also National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. And some scams can be scarier than anything you see on Halloween. Truman Kain, a security researcher at Huntress, a cybersecurity company, has some tips to help keep people safe. “Borderline on paranoia, I like to say, is going to keep you the most secure,”...

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

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.

Officials in Massachusetts are investigating an apparent cyberattack that led to “unauthorized access” to some state employees’ online payroll account and direct deposit information. Comptroller William McNamara’s office said someone created a fake website resembling the”Self-Service Time and Attendance,” or SSTA portal for Massachusetts workers. An unspecified number of employees used the spoofed version of the site, “allowing for...

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. 

A Newton, Massachusetts, man got a lesson in how important a small security step is when he had pricey Taylor Swift concert tickets, a present for his daughter, taken from his email.

A Newton man had Taylor Swift concert tickets, a roughly $4,000 present for his daughter, stolen through his email, and how two-factor authentication could have helped him avoid the situation.

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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.

We found plenty of fake, phishing emails in our inbox. What’s in yours? Here’s what to look out for.

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.

Computer monitors around the world displayed a blue screen with a sad face Friday morning. The company at the center of the outage says it wasn’t a security incident or a cyberattack, but many are questioning how something like this could happen? “This is a really big mess, to be honest,” said Steve Zuromski, the vice president of Information...

The Crowdstrike outage was a massive hit to technology across the world. The company says it was the result of a routine update gone horribly wrong.

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Rite Aid announced Monday that a data breach might have put the personal information of over 2 million customers at risk. On June 6, the drugstore chain said “an unknown third party” impersonated a company employee to gain access to the company’s business systems. The incident was detected in 12 hours and an investigation was launched and the unauthorized access…

While, according to the company, personal data like credit card information and Social Security numbers was not accessed and neither was the content of any calls or texts messages, it still may be cause for concern.

Almost all AT&T customers had data compromised, the company said Friday. Here’s what kind of data got out, how it may expose AT&T users and what they can do to protect themselves.