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Explainer: What caused Amazon’s outage? Will there be more?

December 10, 2021 Matt O'Brien and Frank Bajak, Associated Press

Robotic vacuum cleaners wouldn’t start. Doorbell cameras stopped watching for package thieves, though some of those deliveries were canceled anyway. Netflix and Disney movies got interrupted and The Associated Press had trouble publishing the news. […]

Turn off, turn on: Simple step can thwart top phone hackers

August 9, 2021 Alan Suderman, Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — As a member of the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Angus King has reason to worry about hackers. At a briefing by security staff this year, he said he got some advice […]

Global war on ransomware? Hurdles hinder the US response

June 5, 2021 The Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va. — Foreign keyboard criminals with scant fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, triggered fuel shortages and, most recently, threatened global food supply chains. The escalating […]

US pipelines ordered to increase cyber defenses after hack

May 27, 2021 Ben Fox, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. pipeline operators will be required for the first time to conduct a cybersecurity assessment under a Biden administration directive in response to the ransomware hack that disrupted gas supplies in several […]

The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved

April 29, 2021 Frank Bajak, Associated Press

BOSTON — A very strange thing happened on the internet the day President Joe Biden was sworn in. A shadowy company residing at a shared workspace above a Florida bank announced to the world’s computer […]

Russian hack of US agencies exposed supply chain weaknesses

January 25, 2021 Eric Tucker, Associated Press

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The elite Russian hackers who gained access to computer systems of federal agencies last year didn’t bother trying to break one by one into the networks of each department. Instead, they got […]

Hack may have exposed deep US secrets; damage yet unknown

December 16, 2020 Frank Bajak, Associated Press

BOSTON — Some of America’s most deeply held secrets may have been stolen in a disciplined, monthslong operation being blamed on elite Russian government hackers. The possibilities of what might have been purloined are mind-boggling. […]

Microsoft says Iranian hackers targeted conference attendees

October 30, 2020 The Associated Press

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft says Iranian hackers have posed as conference organizers in Germany and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to break into the email accounts of “high-profile” people with spoofed invitations. The tech company […]

FBI warns ransomware assault threatens US healthcare system

October 29, 2020 Frank Bajak, Associated Press

BOSTON — Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the U.S. healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide […]

Freshman Gardner shines again as ECU pulls away from Prairie View

November 22, 2018 admin

GREENVILLE (AP) — Jayden Gardner scored 28 points and grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds as East Carolina pulled away from Prairie View A&M in the second half to win its second-straight game, 76-64 on Wednesday […]

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