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The targets of cybersecurity attacks are typically high-profile companies that face challenges getting back online, said Yoohwan Kim, a UNLV computer scientist who studies data privacy on blockchain and network security. Think hospitals, utility companies, even casino giants like MGM Resorts International. MGM, with 28 properties worldwide, including many up and down the Las Vegas Strip,

When the Concord School District experienced a cybersecurity attack in 2016, Pamela McLeod was the director of technology. The aftermath, she recalled, was crushing. The infiltrators swept up the W-2 wage and tax forms for all of the district’s employees, which included their names, addresses, and Social Security numbers. The targets were forced to move quickly, check their accounts, and

Lawmakers are demanding that Pentagon officials report within six months about how the military's increasing reliance on a single software vendor, Microsoft, will affect the nation's cybersecurity and competition between IT companies for defense contracts.

The Senate version of the annual defense authorization bill instructs Department of Defense (DOD) Chief Information Officer John

U.S. officials say state-backed Chinese hackers foiled Microsoft's cloud-based security to break into unclassified U.S. government email systems at an unspecified number of agencies, including the State Department. The extent of the hack was not immediately clear Wednesday, but a person familiar with the hack investigation said U.S. military and intelligence agencies were not among those