The story behind the Apple iOS 9 source code leak played out much like a horror movie in which a close-knit group of friends steal something for a good time only to open Pandora's Box.
The U.S. government was very interested in getting back the cyberweapons nicked from the NSA and posted online but eventually nixed the deal because they feared being sucked into a Russian effort to cause chaos in the U.S.
Decatur County General Hospital in Parsons, Tenn., has publicly disclosed that an unauthorized party accessed the server for its electronic medical record system and secretly implanted cryptomining malware.
The paper refused to pay the hackers' demand for a bitcoin ransom and is notifying subscribers whose information - including names, dates of births, phone numbers, and political affiliations - was affected.
Telecom giant Swisscom yesterday disclosed that an unauthorized intruder misappropriated an unnamed sales partner's access to its data, thereby compromising basic information pertaining to approximately 800,000 customers.
Testifying before members of Congress on Tuesday, Uber Technologies CISO John Flynn acknowledged that his company acted irresponsibly by waiting a full year before disclosing the breach of a third-party database containing information on 57 million customers and drivers.
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