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A New Way to Fight Cyber Attacks: Artificial Intelligence
Last year, Microsoft Corp.'s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company's administrators, who usually logs on from New York, ...
Hackers Steal Data From 400,000 Client Accounts at Italy’s UniCredit Bank
UniCredit SpA, Italy's No. 1 bank, said hackers took biographical and loan data from 400,000 client accounts in one of the biggest breaches of European banking security this year. The attack occurred ...
Demand for Cyber Insurance Soars as Hacker Crime Fears Grow
For companies and organizations, an attack by hackers can inflict financial losses, corporate embarrassment and legal action. For insurers jumping into the brave new world of cyber crime insurance, ...
Online Sites From N.Y. to L.A. Crashed Friday in Hacker Web-Host Siege
Millions of internet users temporarily lost access to some of the world's most popular websites Friday, as hackers hammered servers along the U.S. East Coast with phony traffic until they crashed, ...
Hackers Allegedly Made Up to $100M Insider Trading Profit Using Stolen Secrets
A group of mainly U.S.-based stock traders and computer hackers in Ukraine made as much as $100 million in illegal profits over five years by conspiring to use information stolen from thousands of ...
Hackers, Hitting U.S. Govt., Stole Personal Data From 22.1 Million People
Hackers stole Social Security numbers and other personal data for about 22.1 million people in breaches of the U.S. government's personnel office, the Obama administration said. The total includes ...
Lawmakers Urge U.S. Retaliation For Massive Hacking of Worker Data
The Obama administration should retaliate for a cyber-attack on federal employee records that was the worst breach the U.S. government has ever suffered, members of Congress said on Sunday. "There ...
Cyber Attack Compromises PII of U.S. Federal Workers; China Link Probed
Hackers broke into U.S. government computers, possibly compromising the personal data of 4 million current and former federal employees, and investigators were probing whether the culprits were based ...