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Author: BY ANA SWANSON - Publish Date: November 3, 2021 at 11:38PM NSO and three other companies were added to a list that blocks foreign companies from buying certain types of sensitive American technology without a license.

Author: BY CYBÈLE C. GREENBERG - Publish Date: August 23, 2021 at 02:37AM Hacking, like war, is the continuation of politics by other means, but without the inevitable sacrifice of lives.

Author: BY EMMA BUBOLA - Publish Date: August 4, 2021 at 12:17AM What appeared to be a ransomware attack paralyzed many public services in the Lazio region, home to nearly six million people.

Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: August 1, 2021 at 01:30AM Old crime, new technology. There's an answer to the plague of ransomware.

Author: BY KATE CONGER - Publish Date: July 21, 2021 at 11:03PM

Author: BY DAVID E. SANGER AND JULIAN E. BARNES - Publish Date: July 16, 2021 at 12:00AM

Author: BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR - Publish Date: July 10, 2021 at 12:22AM President Biden warned that the United States reserves the right to respond against hackers who launch attacks from inside Russia.

Author: BY MARC SANTORA, MICHAEL D. SHEAR AND ANTON TROIANOVSKI - Publish Date: June 16, 2021 at 10:26PM The Russian president called the talks “constructive,” but his other comments suggested the two leaders did not find much common ground.

Author: Unknown Author - Publish Date: June 5, 2021 at 01:32AM Readers discuss a tennis player's decision not to play, rather than confront the media. Also: Israel and Gaza; driverless cars; ransomware attacks; India's Covid mistake; police reform.

Author: BY MICHAEL D. SHEAR, NICOLE PERLROTH AND CLIFFORD KRAUSS - Publish Date: May 14, 2021 at 07:18AM The payment clears the way for gas to begin flowing again, but it risks emboldening other criminal groups to take American companies hostage by seizing control of their computers.

Author: BY NICOLE PERLROTH - Publish Date: April 27, 2021 at 11:29AM If you are reading this obituary online, you owe your digital safety to him.

Author: BY NICOLE PERLROTH AND JULIAN E. BARNES - Publish Date: April 27, 2021 at 11:13AM The department appears to be the third police force to be targeted in a ransomware attack in six weeks, and the 26th government agency hit this year.

Author: BY NEIL VIGDOR - Publish Date: April 22, 2021 at 09:14AM Lt. William Kelly of the Norfolk Police Department in Virginia was relieved of duty by city officials, who said his support for the Kenosha, Wis., shooting suspect undermined the public’s trust in law enforcement.

Author: BY REUTERS - Publish Date: February 24, 2021 at 08:18AM During a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Tuesday, executives defended how they responded to the SolarWinds breach and warned senators that the hack might be bigger than they previously knew.

Author: BY DAVID E. SANGER - Publish Date: February 24, 2021 at 07:35AM Key senators and corporate executives warned at a hearing on Tuesday that the “scope and scale” of the hacking of government agencies and companies, the most sophisticated in history, were still unclear.

Author: BY KARA SWISHER - Publish Date: February 11, 2021 at 07:58AM Recent attacks on government and infrastructure networks reveal the inadequacy of America’s digital defenses.

Author: BY DAVID E. SANGER - Publish Date: March 11, 2020 at 07:15AM Employees had tracked the group, believed to be based in Russia, as it hijacked nine million computers around the world to send spam emails meant to defraud unsuspecting victims.

Author: BY CHARLIE WARZEL - Publish Date: February 11, 2020 at 07:59AM Companies like Equifax threaten our personal privacy and our national security.

Author: BY TARA SIEGEL BERNARD - Publish Date: January 23, 2020 at 07:22AM A little more than 10 percent of consumers affected by the Equifax breach had made settlement claims as of Dec. 1.

Author: BY SHEERA FRENKEL - Publish Date: January 23, 2020 at 06:54AM It most likely began with a tiny bit of code that implanted malware, which gave attackers access to Mr. Bezos’ photos and texts.