Marriott agrees to pay $52 million, beef up data security to resolve probes over data breaches
Marriott International has agreed to pay $52 million and make changes to bolster its data security t...
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Colorado judge who sentenced election denier Tina Peters to prison receives threats
A rural Colorado county courthouse beefed up security Friday after threats were made against staff a...
Are you a Cash App user? You may be eligible for a piece of this $15 million settlement
NEW YORK (AP) — Current and former Cash App users could be eligible for a hefty piece of a proposed ...
Cyber security startup Wiz reportedly rejects $23 billion acquisition proposal from Google
NEW YORK (AP) — Wiz has rejected a reported $23 billion acquisition proposal from Google parent Alph...
CrowdStrike says more machines fixed as customers, regulators await details on what caused meltdown
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike says a “significant number” of the millions of co...
California officials say largest trial court in US victim of ransomware attack
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A ransomware attack has shut down the computer system of the largest trial court ...
8.5 million computers running Windows affected by faulty update from CrowdStrike
As the world continues to recover from massive business and travel disruptions caused by a faulty so...
A massive tech outage is causing worldwide disruptions. Here’s what we know
Live updates: Follow AP’s latest coverage of the global outage. NEW YORK (AP) — Much of the world fa...
What’s worse than thieves hacking into your bank account? When they steal your phone number, too
WASHINGTON (AP) — One Monday morning in May, I woke up and grabbed my cell phone to read the news an...
One Tech Tip: What to do if your personal info has been exposed in a data breach
LONDON (AP) — Data breaches like the most recent one involving AT&T customers are becoming an al...
AT&T 2022 security breach hits nearly all cellular customers and landline accounts with contact
The data of nearly all customers of the telecommunications giant AT&T was downloaded to a third-...
Election officials push back against draft federal rule for reporting potential cyberattacks
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A group of state election officials is urging the nation’s cybersecurit...
Some data is ‘breached’ during a hacking attack on the Alabama Education Department
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama’s education superintendent said Wednesday that some data was “breach...
Live Nation reveals data breach at its Ticketmaster subsidiary
Live Nation is investigating a data breach at its Ticketmaster subsidiary, which dominates ticketing...
Cybersecurity labeling for smart devices aims to help people choose items less likely to be hacked
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumer labels designed to help Americans pick smart devices that are less vulner...
Vendor that mishandled Pennsylvania virus data to pay $2.7 million in federal whistleblower case
A large staffing firm that performed COVID-19 contact tracing for Pennsylvania and exposed the priva...
How TikTok grew from a fun app for teens into a potential national security threat
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If it feels like TikTok has been around forever, that’s probably because it has...
These are the countries where TikTok is already banned
LONDON (AP) — TikTok is in the crosshairs of authorities in the U.S., where new law threatens a nati...
Biden to create cybersecurity standards for nation’s ports as concerns grow over vulnerabilities
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order and create a federal ru...
State governments looking to protect health-related data as it’s used in abortion battle
Some state governments and federal regulators were already moving to keep individuals’ reproductive ...