Cybersecurity

When Amanda Aguilar saw a video of what appeared to be her speaking, she was stunned. It looked just like her – but it wasn’t. The video was a deepfake.

A woman learned a scammer used her Instagram posts to create deepfakes. News4’s Aimee Cho explains what happened and how to detect a deepfake.

Delta is seeking damages for its losses from the July IT incident, as well as litigation costs and punitive damages.

A broad Chinese hacking campaign against U.S. telecommunication networks targeted the phones of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, two sources familiar with the matter say. Another source told NBC News that people affiliated with the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris were also targeted.

The director of the National Security Agency said Sunday that a Chinese hack of three major telecommunications firms is under investigation but that it remains “premature” to discuss the case. 

One in 43 kids will have their personal information exposed, according to Javelin.

Millions of Americans’ Social Security Numbers might be compromised. News4’s Susan Hogan explains what steps you can take to protect yourself financially.

The data first appeared on April 8, when hacking group USDoD posted a database on “Breached,” a dark web forum, and claimed to have 2.9 billion rows of unencrypted records.

The FBI released a brief statement Monday that read, “We can confirm the FBI is investigating this matter.” The campaign provided no specific evidence of Iran’s involvement.

One-time passwords have become a common method to restore consumer access to apps, but they are vulnerable to hacks.

CrowdStrike has blamed a bug in an update that allowed its cybersecurity systems to push bad data out to millions of customer computers. It set off last week’s global tech outage that grounded flights, took TV broadcasts off air and disrupted banks, hospitals and retailers. CrowdStrike also outlined measures it would take to prevent the problem from repeating, including staggering...

As the world continues to recover from massive business and travel disruptions caused by a faulty software update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, malicious actors are trying to exploit the situation for their own gain.

As our reliance on technology increases, data breaches revealing sensitive information are becoming more common.

If your information was leaked as part of a data breach, here are a few easy ways to protect your sensitive details.

A security breach in 2022 compromised the data of nearly all of AT&T’s cellular customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T’s wireless network, as well as its landline customers interacted with those cellular numbers.

Car dealerships in North America continue to wrestle with major disruptions that started last week with cyberattacks on a software company used widely in the auto retail sales sector.