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From a prosecutorial perspective, the Justice Department's aggressive pursuit of Sam Bankman-Fried for financial fraud has been brutally efficient. His conviction came a year to the day after the public [...]

Cybersecurity experts warn that threats lurk in cheat codes, microtransactions and messages from fellow players. Millions of people escaped the drudgery of the Covid-19 pandemic's first year by turning to [...]

Flights have been canceled, commercial shipping is threatened, and people fear an invasion is not far off. KYIV, Ukraine-- Pavlo Kaliuk, a freelance property broker in Ukraine's capital, used to [...]

Invasive hacking software sold to countries to fight terrorism is easily abused. Researchers say my phone was hacked twice, probably by Saudi Arabia. Times Insider explains who we are and [...]

The effects of a breach of a car, or fleet, could be devastating. Auto manufacturers and suppliers have aggressive plans, and a lot of firewalls. In your garage or driveway [...]

Florida's voter registration website experienced more than a million requests per hour, prompting the state to extend the registration deadline. MIAMI -- Florida's voter registration website crashed on Monday before [...]

WASHINGTON -- Trade negotiations between the United States and China are entering the final stage, but a deal is expected to fall short of addressing several key Trump administration goals, [...]

Last year, the Food and Drug Administration approved a device that can capture an image of your retina and automatically detect signs of diabetic blindness. This new breed of artificial [...]

America's cellular network is as vital to society as the highway system and power grids. Vulnerabilities in the mobile phone infrastructure threaten not only personal privacy and security, but also [...]

Will November's election be hacked? A quick sampling of news stories over the past couple of years offers little comfort. In the months before the 2016 presidential election, Russian hackers [...]

Google is on a mission to teach children how to be safe online. That is the message behind ''Be Internet Awesome,'' a so-called digital-citizenship education program that the technology giant [...]

Given the credible evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, it's only natural that Americans are concerned about the possibility of further foreign interference, especially as the midterms [...]

Saks has been hacked -- adding to the already formidable challenges faced by the luxury retailer. A well-known ring of cybercriminals has obtained more than five million credit and debit [...]

It has been seven years since the Securities and Exchange Commission first advised public companies to tell investors if they had suffered a cyberattack deemed to be material. But even [...]

Congress is now considering long-overdue legislation that authorizes faster access to internationally stored electronic data needed to prosecute serious crime and disrupt terrorist plots in the United States, Britain and [...]

Utah's chief law enforcement officer was deep in the fight against opioids when he realized that a lack of data on internet sales of fentanyl was hindering investigations. So the [...]

Amazon's Alexa voice-controlled virtual assistant is the Chatty Cathy of the tech world, a digital darling that consumers can't get enough of. It can tell chicken jokes, order pizza and [...]

It has been a secret, long known to intelligence agencies but rarely to consumers, that security software can be a powerful spy tool. Security software runs closest to the bare [...]

MELBOURNE, Australia -- The Australian government presented its annual cybersecurity report on Tuesday, revealing that one of its national security contractors had suffered a breach in which it lost a [...]

One of the chief strengths of digital currencies is becoming their weakness. Freedom from regulation was the big draw of Bitcoin, Ether and their counterparts. But the exchanges set up [...]

It started about seven years ago. Iran's top nuclear scientists were being assassinated in a string of similar attacks: Assailants on motorcycles were pulling up to their moving cars, attaching [...]

Any part of a car that talks to the outside world is a potential opportunity for hackers. That includes the car's entertainment and navigation systems, preloaded music and mapping apps, [...]

PARIS -- Never, it is being said, has a presidential election in France seemed so uncertain. And never has there been so much concern about possible attempts by the Russian [...]

WikiLeaks this week published a trove of documents that appears to detail how the Central Intelligence Agency successfully hacked a wide variety of tech products, including iPhones, Android devices, Wi-Fi [...]

Q. I got an email on my iPhone from ''Apple iMessages'' saying my user name and password had been used to log into an iPhone 6. I do have an [...]

It's the stuff of urban legend, filtered through a 21st-century nightmare: A shadowy organization surreptitiously turns on the camera and microphone of your smartphone, changing an essential and trusted device [...]

With just four days to go till Election Day, the polls for the presidential race have tightened. Democrats and Republicans alike are worried about the outcome. But there are other [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia dismisses the idea that he has the power to interfere with Tuesday's election. ''Does anyone seriously think that Russia can affect the [...]

WASHINGTON -- When surveillance cameras began popping up in the 1970s and '80s, they were welcomed as a crime-fighting tool, then as a way to monitor traffic congestion, factory floors [...]

Computers really are becoming like people: Just because they are smart doesn't mean they won't do awful things. As John Markoff writes, the kind of artificial intelligence that is capable [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- Six years ago, Yahoo's computer systems and customer email accounts were penetrated by Chinese military hackers. Google and a number of other technology companies were also hit. [...]

REDMOND, Wash. -- Microsoft was once the epitome of everything wrong with security in technology. Its products were so infested with vulnerabilities that the company's co-founder, Bill Gates, once ordered [...]

WASHINGTON -- After four years of false starts and strife over privacy protections, the Senate passed legislation by a vote of 74 to 21 on Tuesday that would help companies [...]

HONG KONG -- It was heralded as the first concrete step taken by the United States and China on the thorny issue of online espionage. With President Xi Jinping of [...]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China took their first concrete steps on Friday toward reining in the rising threat of cyberattacks between the world's two largest [...]

T-Mobile USA, one of the few phone carriers to still offer an unlimited data plan, has run into a classic Homer Simpson problem: The company says it will get rid [...]

A FRIDGE that puts milk on your shopping list when you run low. A safe that tallies the cash that is placed in it. A sniper rifle equipped with advanced [...]

WHEN the history of the connected car is written, this week may go down as a pivotal moment for consumers worried about security. That is because a pair of technology [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Pentagon on Thursday took a major step designed to instill a measure of fear in potential cyberadversaries, releasing a new strategy that for the first time [...]

A USERNAME and password combination has long been the standard security mechanism for online accounts. But that method just isn't cutting it anymore. Huge data breaches, in which hackers gain [...]

This summer's huge cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase and a dozen other financial institutions is accelerating efforts by federal and state authorities to push banks and brokerage firms to close some [...]

Updated, 8:07 p.m. | More than 1,000 American businesses have been affected by the cyberattack that hit the in-store cash register systems at Target, Supervalu and most recently UPS Stores, [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- The same tools that help millions of Americans work from home are being exploited by cybercriminals to break into the computer networks of retailers like Target and [...]

Scott Heiferman and Gary Burns had less than four minutes to decide whether to pay up or go down. One Thursday morning, an email popped into their inbox informing Mr. [...]

SAN FRANCISCO -- BITCOIN'S future may not rely on stabilizing its price swings or signing up more merchants to accept the virtual currency. Rather, it may rely on its image. [...]

I would like to take time now to thank everyone who sent me holiday messages via the Internet: The wishes of good cheer, the reports of family achievements in the [...]

HELSINKI -- The changes in the digital world today represent a dramatically sped-up version of the changes the world underwent in a century of industrialization. It is a paradigm transformation [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDCULVER CITY, Calif. -- Kidnappers used to make ransom notes with letters cut out of magazines. Now, notes simply pop up on your computer screen, except the hostage is [...]

WASHINGTON -- From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's first [...]

Legal and technology researchers estimate that it would take about a month for Internet users to read the privacy policies of all the Web sites they visit in a year. [...]