cybersecurity
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PublishedMay 30, 2023
Health insurer hack means questions but still few answers for Mainers
A cyberattack discovered in April could affect 79,000 state residents with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care coverage. But there's little information about the information at risk.
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PublishedMay 15, 2023
Hackers, data breaches put more Mainers at risk in ‘ongoing chess game’
Experts say cybercrime is on the rise, and it's getting harder to catch the crooks. In Maine, data breaches are being recorded nearly every day.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2023
House panel zeroes in on TikTok app over security fear
The implications of this new scrutiny – part of a broadening congressional review of U.S. engagement with China – are unclear.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2023
Ex-Twitter engineer tells FTC security violations persist after Musk
Concerns about Twitter's security soared after an incident in 2020 when teenagers breached Twitter's internal systems and tweeted as Musk, Barack Obama and others.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2022
U.S. House blocks TikTok on official devices ahead of government ban
The House's chief administrative officer cited "high risk" security concerns in a memo that ordered lawmakers and staffers on Tuesday to delete the app from government devices.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2022
Facebook is warning 1 million users about stolen usernames, passwords
The company announced Friday that it identified more than 400 malicious Android and iOS apps this year that target internet users in order to steal their login information.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2022
Pentagon launches effort to assess crypto’s threat to national security
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the office that developed the earliest technology undergirding the internet, has hired crypto intelligence firm Inca Digital to conduct the year-long project.
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PublishedSeptember 6, 2022
Data breach may have affected over 15,000 student loan borrowers in Maine
Personal information including Social Security numbers may have been illicitly accessed, and 2.5 million people may have been affected nationwide.
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PublishedAugust 12, 2022
Search warrants for abortion data leave tech companies few options
How tech companies handle user data has come under growing scrutiny from privacy advocates, politicians and their own employees since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June.
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PublishedJuly 19, 2022
U.S. disrupts North Korean hackers that targeted hospitals
The FBI was able to trace a ransom paid last year by a Kansas hospital and identified China-based money launderers who assisted the hackers.
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