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Software Bug, Not Cyber Attack, Takes Down Airlines, Banks
A software bug at a major network provider briefly knocked dozens of financial institutions, airlines and other companies across the globe offline during peak business hours in Asia. Akamai, which ...
Weekend Storm Warnings Issued For Gulf Coast: Louisiana to Florida
The National Hurricane Center's updated its tropical storm warning for the Gulf Coast is in effect for east of Morgan City, Louisiana to the Okaloosa/Walton County line in Florida. The center has ...
Google to Confront Revived Shareholder Lawsuit Alleging It Hid Security Risks
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit in which shareholders of Google parent Alphabet Inc accused the company of fraudulently concealing security vulnerabilities, including in its ...
Reinsurers Seek Ways to Exclude Coal From Treaty Reinsurance
Major reinsurers have already pulled back from providing bespoke cover for coal projects as part of efforts to meet global climate change commitments, but now comes the hard part - finding ways to ...
Shockingly High Hacking Risks for U.S. Water, Power Cyber Networks
When the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was hacked in 2018, it took a mere six hours. Early this year, an intruder lurked in hundreds of computers related to water systems across the U.S. ...
Irish Group Files Lawsuit Alleging Online Ads Violate EU Privacy Rules
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) on Wednesday will file a lawsuit in a German court against IAB Tech Lab for allegedly breaching EU privacy rules. At issue is real-time bidding systems, ...
SCOTUS Revives LinkedIn Bid to Prevent Rival From Harvesting Personal Data
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave Microsoft Corp's LinkedIn Corp another chance to try to stop rival hiQ Labs Inc from harvesting personal data from the professional networking platform's public ...
Ransomware Is Biggest Online Threat Facing UK: Official
Professional criminals holding businesses to ransom — often with the support of nation-states — is the key online threat facing the UK, the country's cyber security chief will say Monday. Lindy ...