Colonial Pipeline Paid Roughly $5 Million in Ransom to Hackers
In a separate ransomware attack on the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, hackers said the…
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Colonial Pipeline paid 75 Bitcoin, or roughly $5 million, to hackers.
Colonial Pipeline paid its extortionists roughly 75 Bitcoin, or nearly $5 million, to recover its…
Coinbase made $771 million in profit in the first quarter, benefiting from crypto mania.
The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said on Thursday that its quarterly profit soared by more than…
The Apple and Amazon Side Hustles
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Train Workers’ Covid Bonus Offer Turns Out to Be a Phishing Test
A report released this week by Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre showed a 15-fold increase…
How Klobuchar and Hawley See Things When It Comes to Technology
Would you like to read a U.S. senator’s book about antitrust law? No? How about…
How ‘Put That on Top Shot!’ Became a New N.B.A. Mantra
Late in the third quarter of a March game between the Utah Jazz and the…
‘A Perpetual Motion Machine’: How Disinformation Drives Voting Laws
“It’s like a perpetual motion machine — you create the fear of fraud out of…
Biden Signs Executive Order to Bolster Federal Government’s Cybersecurity
WASHINGTON — As the East Coast suffered from the effects of a ransomware attack on…
Tesla stops accepting Bitcoin as payment for its cars.
Three months after Tesla said it would begin accepting the cryptocurrency Bitcoin as payment, the…