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Gotten a text about Peach Pass lately? It's probably a scam

The FBI said that during the first two weeks of March, its Internet Crime Complaint Center received 1,573 complaints about the new scam.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Chase McGee
People walk out of a Rite Aid pharmacy

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  • Health

Cybersecurity expert shares tips to protect private health data after major pharmacy is hacked

Communications giant AT&T and Rite Aid pharmacy are just two targets of recent security breaches that have compromised user data.

July 23, 2024
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Travelers move through the terminal near a Delta Airlines desk at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024, in Atlanta.

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  • News

UPDATE: Global tech outage continues to disrupt Atlanta airport

Friday’s massive IT glitch linked to a software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on Microsoft cloud computing services continued to cause disruptions over the weekend. Thousands of passengers were stranded at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport overnight Friday into Saturday as hundreds of flights were canceled.

July 22, 2024
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By:
  • Logan Ritchie ,
  • Bob Pepalis ,
  • and 1 more
The sign is seen above the headquarters of Kaspersky Lab in Moscow Monday, on Jan. 30, 2017.

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  • National Security

Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky denies it's a hazard after the U.S. bans its software

The Moscow-based company said in a statement that the U.S. Commerce Department’s decision would not affect its ability to sell and promote its cyber security products and training in the U.S.

June 21, 2024
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Austin's Ascension Seton Medical Center is among the hospitals affected by a nationwide cybersecurity breach of Ascension technology systems.

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  • Health

How the Ascension cyberattack is disrupting care at hospitals

With IT systems down, staff at Ascension have to use manual processes they left behind some 20 years ago. It's the latest in a string of attacks on health care systems that house private patient data.

May 23, 2024
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By:
  • Olivia Aldridge
New state-issued voting machines used for the Georgia primary election on June 9, 2020, are seen at Park Tavern in Atlanta. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg issued a 135-page ruling late Friday, Nov. 10, 2023 in a long-running lawsuit filed by activists who want the state to ditch its electronic voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots.

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  • News

Constitutional challenge to Georgia voting machines set for trial early next year

The question of whether Georgia's electronic voting system has major cybersecurity flaws that amount to a violation of voters' constitutional rights to cast their votes and have those votes accurately counted is set to be decided at trial early next year. U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg issued a 135-page ruling late Friday in a long-running lawsuit filed by activists who want the state to ditch its electronic voting machines in favor of hand-marked paper ballots.

November 13, 2023
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By:
  • Associated Press
People stand in line to withdraw money from an ATM of Alfa Bank in Moscow last year.

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  • World

Ukrainian hackers and intel officers partner up in apparent hack of a top Russian bank

The Ukrainian hacktivists wrote in a blog post — posted on their own site — that they would be sharing data obtained from the Russian bank hack with investigative journalists.

October 25, 2023
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By:
  • Jenna McLaughlin
A signage of Microsoft is seen on March 13, 2020 in New York City. The U.S. government and Microsoft recently revealed that Chinese hackers broke in to online email systems and stole some unclassified information.

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  • National Security

Microsoft says Chinese hackers breached email, including U.S. government agencies

The U.S. government and Microsoft reveal Chinese hackers broke in to online email systems and stole some unclassified data.

July 12, 2023
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By:
  • Jenna McLaughlin
Christopher Wray

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  • News

FBI Director Christopher Wray discusses AI and technology threats at an event in his hometown

FBI Director Christopher Wray visited his home city to give updates on technology and public safety. 

June 21, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Matt Ashley, a senior technologist at Johnson Memorial Health in Franklin, Indiana, is part of a small IT team that spent months helping the hospital recover after a crippling cyberattack in 2021.

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  • Health

Cyberattacks on health care are increasing. Inside one hospital's fight to recover

U.S. hospitals have seen a record number of cyberattacks over the past few years. Getting hacked can cost a hospital millions of dollars and expose patient data, and even jeopardize patient care.

May 09, 2023
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By:
  • Farah Yousry
Servers at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi are still not back to normal two weeks after they were hacked and the data was held for ransom.

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  • Global Health

Cyberattacks on hospitals thwart India's push to digitize health care

Prime Minister Modi's ambitious plan to transition all Indians' health records online is running up against weak cybersecurity systems and a lack of data protection laws.

December 17, 2022
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By:
  • Raksha Kumar
An illustration symbolizing cybersecurity

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  • News

Senate study committee considers how to beef up Georgia’s cybersecurity

A committee of state senators met on the Georgia Tech campus Tuesday to learn how the state can boost its cybersecurity. Industry and academic experts described how cyberthreats have evolved over the past decades.

September 14, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine
Peiter Zatko, known by his hacker name "Mudge," talks about cybersecurity with the Senate Governmental Affairs committee on May 19, 1998. He's scheduled to testify again about his whistleblower complaint against Twitter on Sept. 13, 2022. (Photo by Douglas Graham/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images)

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  • Technology

Here's why the Twitter whistleblower's testimony to Congress will be crucial

Peiter Mudge Zatko follows Frances Haugen as the second tech whistleblower in less than a year to testify before Congress about the struggles inside a social media company.

September 13, 2022
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By:
  • Raquel Maria Dillon
Harri Hursti told NPR he's been instructed not to open the box containing the Dominion ImageCast X machine that he bought on eBay for $1,200.

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  • National Security

A hacker bought a voting machine on eBay. Michigan officials are now investigating

Harri Hursti bought the Dominion machine to uncover its vulnerabilities, something he often does for state election officials. But authorities are trying to find out how the machine ended up online.

September 08, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's legal team argues that allegations by Twitter's ex-security chief give him reason to pull out of his agreement to buy the Twitter. Here, Musk speaks at a meeting of energy, oil and gas executives in Norway on August 29.

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  • Technology

Elon Musk wants to get out of buying Twitter. A whistleblower's claims might help him

The social media company appeared to be on solid legal ground when it sued the Tesla CEO to force him to complete the merger. But allegations by Twitter's ex-security chief may help Musk's case.

September 06, 2022
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By:
  • Raquel Maria Dillon
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