SECURITY

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 cashless society depends on three things, all of which have failed in recent weeks as a result of natural disasters and security breaches.

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.

Microsoft failed to fully disclose the extent of a breach it suffered in 2013 that resulted in unpatched exploits being stolen.

KRACK attack: The discovery of several vulnerabilities that exploit a flaw in a popular wireless encryption protocol could provide a make-or-break moment for the IoT.

Major vulnerabilities were discovered in a popular Wi-Fi security protocol, which means that nearly every wireless device is at risk. Here's what you should do to stay safe.

Ransomware sales are up more than 2,500 percent on the dark web since the start of 2017, according to a new report from Carbon Black.

The data came from SVR Tracking and exposed users' vehicle licence plates, VIN numbers and more.