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U.S. tech giants could benefit from the agreement of the Group of Seven rich countries' agreement to create a global minimum 15% corporate tax rate if the final deal also scraps increasingly popular digital services taxes, according to industry lobbyists.

The Department of Justice announced on Monday that investigators were able to recover most of the ransom paid to hackers who interrupted operations at Colonial Pipeline last month.

Navistar International Corporation has learned of a "credible potential cybersecurity threat" to its information technology system that has extracted certain data.

U.S. officials on Sunday ratcheted up pressure on companies and foreign adversaries to fight cybercriminals, and said President Joe Biden is considering all options, including a military response, to counter the growing threat.

Facebook Vice President Nick Clegg on Sunday defended the two-year ban of former President Donald Trump and argued that to deal with issues of political speech, hatred and violence, lawmakers should look to pass regulations instead of breaking up the social media company.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Supplies at thousands of gas stations in dozens of Southern states were drained after a cyberattack forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline earlier this month.