Raphael Satter

Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter, as fears grow over the digital paper trail left by former officials and their international partners. In the weeks since the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afgh…

By Raphael Satter NEW YORK (Reuters) - FBI investigators have used software from Palantir Technologies Inc to access restricted evidence they were not...

The official websites of the Taliban, who swept to power in Afghanistan on the back of a lightning offensive last week, appeared to have vanished from the internet late on Friday. The Taliban operate separate websites in Pashto, Dari, Arabic, Urdu and English. A spokeswoman for CloudFlare, which o…

A federal judge has ordered President Joe Biden’s administration to reinstate his Republican predecessor’s “remain in Mexico” policy, which forced tens of thousands of Central American asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for U.S. court cases.

The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to open a civil rights investigation into nursing homes in New York and two other states regarding their Covid-19 response, dealing a blow to several Republican lawmakers who had demanded a probe.

The United States on Friday took a new stab at Russia’s cybersecurity industry, restricting trade with four information technology firms and two other

CYBER-INDIA/HACKERS:UK court allows lawsuit against Dechert over Indian hacking allegations

Websites run by the ransomware gang REvil suddenly became unreachable on Tuesday, sparking widespread speculation that the group had been knocked offline.

An Iranian-American businessman wants to sue U.S. law firm Dechert over allegations of hacking, seeking a London court’s approval to add it as a defendant in a long-simmering dispute with the Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority (RAKIA).

Software company SolarWinds (SWI.N) says that unknown hackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in two of its programs to go after “a limited, targeted set of customers.”

Hackers suspected to be behind a mass extortion attack that affected hundreds of companies worldwide late on Sunday demanded $70 million to restore the data they are holding ransom, according to a posting on a dark web site.

The ransomware attacks on hundreds of businesses that were centered on Florida IT firm Kaseya were never a threat to U.S. critical infrastructure, the company said on Tuesday.

White House says it is reaching out to ransomware victims  Nasdaq

Russian spies accused of interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election have spent much of the past two years abusing virtual private networks (VPNs) to target hundreds of organizations worldwide, U.S. and British authorities said on Thursday.

An Israeli private detective detained in New York since 2019 on charges of involvement in a hacker-for-hire scheme wants a plea deal, according to a letter filed in court by his lawyer.

The United States needs to accord the same legal protections to user data held on tech companies’ servers as it does to physical files stored in personal file cabinets, media attorneys and lawmakers said Wednesday.

A Ukrainian hacker was sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in a notorious cybercrime group that stole millions of credit and debit card details from across the United States, the Department of Justice said Thursday.

Following a decade-old security recommendation could have helped stymie the Russian hackers who ran amok across federal government networks last year, the Department of Homeland Security’s digital defense arm said in a letter sent earlier this month.

Energy pipeline companies will have to report cybersecurity incidents to the U.S. government under a new directive that will be announced by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) on Thursday, senior government officials said.

A bomb threat cited by Belarusian authorities as the reason for forcing a Ryanair (RYA.I) jetliner carrying a dissident journalist to land in Minsk was sent after the plane was diverted, privacy-focused email provider Proton Technologies AG said on Thursday.