• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-20-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on The year ransomware became one of the top threats to enterprises

On Feb. 5, employees at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, started having network access problems that prevented electronic communications. Over the next few days, they learned that the hospital was the victim of a ransomware attack that encrypted […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-20-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Cyberattack suspected in Ukraine power outage

Security experts are investigating whether a power outage that affected parts of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and the surrounding region this weekend was the result of a cyberattack. If confirmed, it would be the second blackout caused by hackers in Ukraine.The […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-20-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Cyberattack suspected in Ukraine power outage

Security experts are investigating whether a power outage that affected parts of the Ukrainian capital, Kiev, and the surrounding region this weekend was the result of a cyberattack. If confirmed, it would be the second blackout caused by hackers in Ukraine.The […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-20-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Privacy groups complain to FTC over Google’s ‘deceptive’ policy change

Privacy groups have complained to the Federal Trade Commission that Google is encroaching on user privacy through a policy change in June that allows it to combine personally-identifiable information with browsing data collected by its DoubleClick digital advertising service.The complaint […]