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Cybersecurity

Howard University cancels classes after ransomware attack

September 7, 2021

Via: Tech Crunch

Washington D.C’s Howard University has canceled classes after becoming the latest educational institution to be hit by a ransomware attack. The incident was discovered on September 3, just weeks after students returned to campus, when the University’s Enterprise Technology Services […]


Cybersecurity

Justice Department files criminal charges against seven Russian spies over Fancy Bear cyberattacks

October 4, 2018

Via: Tech Crunch

U.S. prosecutors have charged seven suspects accused of working for the Russian GRU, the country’s military intelligence unit. The Justice Department’s National Security Division alleged the seven hackers were part of “a conspiracy to use computer hacking to obtain non-public, […]


Federal, Policy

Federal judge rules FBI didn’t have proper warrant to hack child porn site

April 21, 2016

Via: Tech Crunch

A federal judge ruled today that the FBI did not obtain the proper warrant before hacking a child porn website and that the evidence it collected against one of the defendants, Alex Levin, must be suppressed. The case centers on […]


Cybersecurity

San Bernardino iPhone was hacked using a zero-day exploit

April 13, 2016

Via: Tech Crunch

When a couple of terrorists attacked and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California in December last year, an iPhone 5c was recovered, and it’s been in the news almost as much as the terror attack itself. The phone was […]