State officials Monday provided some additional details about a cyberattack that has crippled some websites operated by the Maryland Department of Health but shed no further light on what caused the incident. The new information was part of a 15-minute ...

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More than a week after a cyberattack forced the Maryland Department of Health to take its website offline, several COVID-19 data points remain missing.

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The world’s largest meat processing company says it paid the equivalent of $11 million to hackers who broke into its computer system late last month.

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The world’s largest meat processing company is getting back online after production around the world was disrupted by a cyberattack.

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Baltimore’s chief information technology official has apologized to city leaders for the response to a cyberattack that has crippled the city for a month. The Baltimore Sun reports Frank Johnson offered his “sincere apologies” to city council members Friday during a public ...

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In this age of data breaches, malware, ransomware, and phishing attempts, small and mid-sized businesses can no longer operate under the premise that th

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Maryland leaders hailed the state as a “cyber capital” of the world Wednesday at the Cyber Maryland 2017 conference while acknowledging that the state has to do more to capitalize on the companies and agencies that represent the burgeoning industry. ...

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The firm was one of several businesses globally that was hit by an attack known as "Petya."

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CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield said Wednesday it had been hit by a “sophisticated cyberattack” during which attackers gained limited access to one of the company’s databases in June 2014. The names, birth dates, email addresses and subscriber identification numbers of about ...

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The U.S. Postal Service said Monday it is the victim of a cyberattack and that information about its employees, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised.

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