United Health Services Inc., a leading healthcare provider in the U.S., has been hit by a ransomware attack that forced systems offline in multiple states. According to CNBC, the hospital chain is described as being hit by “what appears to be one of the largest medical cyberattacks in United States history.” The extent of the ...

Following several years of lawsuits, Uber Technologies Inc. has had a win and can now legally provide services in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, at least for the next 18 months. The drama involving Uber versus the city of London goes back several years. Uber first had its license to operate in London suspended ...

A U.S. federal judge today temporarily blocked an executive order issued by the Trump administration that would have banned transactions with Chinese-owned social video sharing app TikTok. The ban was meant to start at 11:59 p.m. Sunday and would have banned TikTok from U.S. app stores such as Apple Inc.’s App Store and Google LLC’s Play Store. ...

Twitter Inc. is warning developers that their application programming interface key, user access tokens and token secrets for their own Twitter accounts may have been exposed in browser caches. In a notice to developers Friday, Twitter said they may have been temporarily stored in the browser’s cache on a public or shared computer. “If someone ...

Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin has been hacked and about $150 million in various types of cryptocurrency stolen. The hack was first detected Saturday morning, Sept. 26, in Singapore. Those behind the attack gained access to investor funds in cryptocurrency hot wallets, those connected to the internet so crypto can be traded, then transferred balances out ...

The U.S. Commerce Department has imposed trade sanctions on China’s largest chipmaker, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp., that will restrict the company’s access to U.S. technology. The restrictions are not as harsh as those imposed on Huawei Technology Co. Ltd. and ZTE Corp., which were outright bans on gaining access to U.S. technology rather than a requirement that ...

Facebook Inc. has patched a vulnerability in its photo-sharing app Instagram that could have allowed hackers to take over user accounts through a malicious image. The vulnerability, discovered and publicized today by researchers at Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., involved a remote code execution hack. The vulnerability would allow attackers to perform any action they wish through ...

An exploit in Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Server is actively being exploited in the wild even though a patch for the critical vulnerability was issued last month. Dubbed “ZeroLogon” by cybersecurity professionals and “Netlogon EoP” by Microsoft, the vulnerability, patched in the Microsoft Patch Tuesday security update in August is rated with a critical vulnerability score ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency today issued an analysis report in relation to a U.S. federal agency that has suffered a data breach after being hacked. CISA didn’t name the federal agency targeted, but the report makes for sober reading in terms of cybersecurity, and in this case, the basic ...

Cerberus Cyber Sentinel Corp. today acquired cybersecurity assessment firm Clear Skies Security LLC for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2008, Clear Skies specializes in helping companies discover vulnerabilities in their computer networks and applications before they can be exploited by hackers. The company offers a range of services, including application assessments, penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, architecture reviews ...