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Prince Harry's lawyer says British tabloid spied on 'industrial scale'
LONDON (AP) — The British publisher of the Daily Mirror apologized for one instance of snooping on Prince Harry but denied his other claims Wednesday, as a trial for one of Harry's phone hacking lawsuits began with the prince's lawyer accusing the newspaper of unlawfully gathering information on...
Mass event will let hackers test limits of AI technology
No sooner did ChatGPT get unleashed than hackers started “jailbreaking” the artificial intelligence chatbot — trying to override its safeguards so it could blurt out something unhinged or obscene. But now its maker, OpenAI, and other major AI providers such as Google and...
US busts Russian cyber operation in dozens of countries
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Tuesday that it had disrupted a long-running Russian cyberespionage campaign that infected computer networks in dozens of countries, including in the United States, and resulted in the theft of sensitive information from governments. ...
$1.1M paid to resolve ransomware attack on California county
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A $1.1 million payment was made to resolve a ransomware attack on a California county's law enforcement computer network, Southern California News Group reported. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department announced in April that a “network...
Ex-Uber security chief sentenced for data-breach cover-up
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former chief security officer for Uber was sentenced to probation Thursday for trying to cover up a 2016 data breach in which hackers accessed tens of millions of customer records from the ride-hailing service. Joseph Sullivan was sentenced to a three-year...
Ransomware attack affects Dallas police, court websites
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas was hit with a computer ransomware attack Wednesday that brought down its Police Department and City Hall websites and caused some jury trials to be canceled, officials said. The outage didn't appear to affect 911 calls. However, it did cause problems with a...
Lawyer says Prince Harry's words undermine phone hack case
LONDON (AP) — An attorney for the publisher of The Sun tabloid used Prince Harry's own words Thursday to argue that his phone hacking lawsuit should be thrown out. Attorney Anthony Hudson said emails from the Duke of Sussex to the royal family's chief spokesperson indicated he was...
US cyberwarriors thwarted 2020 Iran election hacking attempt
Iranian hackers broke into to a system used by a U.S. municipal government to publish election results in 2020 but were discovered by cyber soldiers operating abroad and kicked out before an attack could be launched, according to U.S. military and cybersecurity officials. The system...
UK says Russian hackers aim to attack key infrastructure
LONDON (AP) — Russian hackers are seeking to “disrupt or destroy” Britain’s critical infrastructure and not enough is being done to stop them, U.K. government officials said Wednesday. Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre issued an official threat notice to operators of...
Report: Chinese state-sponsored hacking group highly active
BANGKOK (AP) — A Chinese hacking group that is likely state-sponsored and has been linked previously to attacks on U.S. state government computers is still “highly active” and is focusing on a broad range of targets that may be of strategic interest to China's government and security...
