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Hackers accessing a single remote account were able to interrupt operations at Colonial Pipeline, one of the largest pipeline systems for refined oil products in the U.S., a cybersecurity expert says.

Users searching on Microsoft-created search engine Bing for an image of the “Tank Man” from the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 are finding no results generating concerns about censorship.

Republican politicians and activists are slamming "woke" business leaders who've become more inclined to make domestic political statements in recent years yet still do business with China, which is ruled by the brutal Chinese Communist Party.

Social media giant Facebook is allegedly preparing to adjust its content moderation policies so that they apply equally to all users, including politicians.

Cybercriminals are honing in on the financial services industry as more consumers shifted to digital transactions during the pandemic.

Sen. Cory Booker is calling on Google's parent company to conduct a "racial equity audit" that he says is necessary to identify "harmful" racial bias baked into the technology of its products.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City says its systems were breached in April in what is now the fourth known mass cybersecurity hack in just one month.

JBS serves around 275,000 customers worldwide, ranging from supermarket chains to small retailers, wholesale clubs and food service companies.

The JBS Foods hack is threatening to upend the meat production industry just three weeks after the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack caused gas shortages up and down the East Coast.

Instacart, the San Francisco-based grocery delivery and pick-up company, is reportedly exploring new technology to enlist robots for its in-store grocery shopping to replace some of its gig workers in a move to cut costs.

The cyberattack on meat producer JBS follows a similar hit on Colonial Pipeline, which disrupted the largest U.S. fuel supply.

Intel Corp.’s CEO reiterated on Monday that the global shortage of semiconductors could take a few years to resolve.

An ongoing lawsuit against Google by Arizona, which alleges that the tech behemoth would continue to collect location information even when users had turned tracking off, has revealed that some of Google’s own employees had concerns about the practice.

New details are emerging from a cyberattack that hit about 3,000 email accounts and 150 government agencies spanning 24 countries, including the U.S., this week

Walmart on Monday said that an external actor created false accounts on its site using offensive language, which resulted in inappropriate emails being sent to users.

Twitter is rolling out a new verification application process to the public Thursday, saying the company is seeking to give "more transparency, credibility and clarity" to the process of who gets verified on the platform.

Colonial Pipeline CEO Joseph Blount faced mounting pressure from Congressional lawmakers Wednesday after he admitted the company made a payment to the hackers responsible for a ransomware attack that knocked the pipeline offline for several days.

Nearly one in 10 U.S. police departments have access to videos from millions of privately owned Amazon Ring devices.

The Russian ransomware group responsible for the Colonial Pipeline hack, Darkside, reaped just over $90 million in Bitcoin ransom payments from 47 victims before announcing it would cease operations, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday announced that he was signing a law intended to penalize local governments that do not keep up with cybersecurity training requirements one week after ransomware attack shut down a major U.S. pipeline.