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Updated: February 5, 2024 | 5:15 pm

Pennsylvania statewide court agency’s website hit by disabling cyberattack, officials say

By The Associated Press
January 2, 2024 | 1:01 PM

States and Congress wrestle with cybersecurity after Iran attacks small town water utilities

By Marc Levy/The Associated Press
December 1, 2023 | 9:55 AM

Congressmen ask DOJ to investigate water utility hack, warning it could happen anywhere

By Frank Bajak and Marc Levy/The Associated Press

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February 28, 2022 | 3:17 PM

Russian cyber attacks could target U.S. networks after Ukraine invasion

How safe are we from cyber attacks, what can be done to protect ourselves and our networks, and what should we look for?

By Scott LaMar/WITF
June 8, 2021 | 5:38 AM

How a new team of feds hacked the hackers and got Colonial Pipeline’s Bitcoin back

“What we don’t know is whether or not this is going to pave the way for future similar successes.”

By Vanessa Romo/NPR
June 2, 2021 | 5:37 AM

Montgomery County meat-processing plant shutters amid massive cyberattack against JBS

Almost all 1,500 workers at the Montgomery County plant were told to stay home Tuesday,

By Jad Sleiman/WHYY
April 6, 2021 | 7:33 AM

After a major jack, U.S. looks to fix a cyber ‘blind spot’

U.S. rivals like Russia are aware of this blind spot and know how to exploit it, as the NSA director, Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, explained recently to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
By Greg Myre/NPR
December 22, 2020 | 8:13 AM

What we know about Russia’s alleged hack of the U.S. government and tech companies

A massive computer breach allowed hackers to spend months exploring numerous U.S. government networks and private companies' systems around the world.
By Bill Chappell, Greg Myre, Laurel Wamsley/NPR
October 23, 2020 | 5:20 AM

US: Russian hackers targeting state, local government networks

The warning, less than two weeks before the election, amplified fears of the potential for tampering with the vote and undermining confidence in the results.

By Eric Tucker/The Associated Press
September 29, 2020 | 5:19 AM

Cyberattack hobbles major Pa.-based hospital chain’s US facilities

Universal Health Services Inc., which operates more than 250 hospitals and other clinical facilities in the U.S., blamed the outage on an unspecified IT “security issue” in a statement posted to its website Monday.

By Frank Bajak and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar/The Associated Press
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