SECURITY

Tech and telecom lobbying groups managed to kill a bill in California that would have required internet service providers to get user permission before collecting their data.

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab said it accessed files from the National Security Agency but only did so on accident.

Bad Rabbit, a new Petya-style ransomware attack, has been spreading quickly among organizations located in Russia and Ukraine.

Hacking group Dark Overlord breached the London Bridge Plastic Surgery clinic and stole sensitive patient information including explicit photos.

Parents are declining to have their newborns screened for genetic disorders: They worry about data breaches — and the possibility that insurance companies might discriminate against their kids.

The USA Rights Act, introduced Tuesday, would limit law enforcement's ability to access information collected by the NSA on American citizens.

Russia-linked hackers are targeting critical infrastructure, according to the DHS and FBI. Security experts warn that if organizations don't take action, it could result in an attack that results in "a significant loss of life.”

FBI Director Christopher Wray reported the agency has failed to gain access to more than 7,000 devices it targeted because of encryption.

A man was arrested in Hong Kong for pushing a woman onto a rail track in the town of Yuen Long and then casually walking away.

More than one-in-four emails with .gov addresses are fraudulent or unauthorized and the majority of the government has not implemented security standards to protect against it.

A new botnet known as Reaper has infected more than two million Internet of Things devices in the last month.

Slack's Head of Infrastructure Engineering Julia Grace talks about cloud security, giving back to young people and career advice for those who want to get promoted faster.

A 19-year-old accidentally disrupted the 911 emergency services in several cities in Arizona and received three years probation.

A surveillance video at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Utah showed a woman looking through a man's wallet and stealing from him while he was having a seizure.

Eight Minecraft apps available through the Google Play Store can turn a victims's device into a zombie for botnet attacks.

Researchers at the University of Washington found it was easy to track the location of an individual by placing targeted advertisements.

Raffi Krikorian, chief technology officer for the Democratic National Committee, talked to IBT about the cultural gap between Silicon Valley and Democrats — as well as the cloud security issues he’s taken head-on.

The FTC has been asked to investigate the security of smartwatches for children after a report found that hackers can monitor and communicate with kids.

For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Google has added new security features to its Advanced Protection Program for users at a high risk of being attacked.

Adobe issued a patch for a zero-day vulnerability in Flash that was used by hackers to plant spying software.

Pizza Hut suffered a data breach that exposed some customer data and financial data and waited two weeks to publicly disclose it.