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A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation’s new 988 mental health helpline late last year, federal officials tell The Associated Press.

Phishing attacks, where a cybercriminal sends a deceptive message that’s designed to fool a user are getting more sophisticated and are spreading beyond emails.

Republican Mike Lawler beat out Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney in the 17th District election,News 4’s Lynda Baquero reports.

Amid lingering concerns over a cyber attack two months ago, Suffolk County officials stopped the wireless transmission of data and had workers drive memory cards containing voting data to a central office, where precinct tallies could be manually uploaded to state computer servers. Turns out, it was just overtaxed WiFi.

It’s been more than a week since Suffolk County discovered its computer networks were hacked, but while some county services are still offline, the hackers are upping the ante. The News 4 I-Team learned the group behind a cyberattack against the Suffolk County government posted documents with personal information obtained from the hack on the dark web and threatens to…

The hackers have sent messages saying they will release more documents if they do not receive communication from Suffolk County, Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A cyberattack has prevented Suffolk County officials from doing their jobs — as computers from police departments to traffic court were down Tuesday. “We have detected malware and that it has the hallmarks of ransomware but the investigation at this point has not concluded that this is a ransomware incident,” Steve Bellone, County Executive of Suffolk County, said. It is…

A cyber attack on Long Island is disrupting county agencies from doing their jobs. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Wedding registry website Zola confirmed it was hit with a cyberattack over the weekend after dozens of customers took to social media to complain about their accounts being breached and drained.

Google’s plans to buy Mandiant mark the latest sign that security expertise and capabilities have become critical for effective cloud service operations.

The metaverse has drawn hype, but unless its cybersecurity risks are addressed, companies may not see the success they’re hoping for in this new realm.

A cyberattack on New York’s ethics commission last month is expected to keep lobbying and financial disclosure systems offline for about another week, officials said Saturday. The Joint Commission on Public Ethics said it’s continuing its investigation into the attack on its web application server, but that it expects electronic lobbying reporting and financial disclosure statement systems to be...

The zero trust model of security takes the approach that no users or devices are to be trusted without continuous verification and is gaining momentum.

The state of New York’s ethics panel announced Friday that some of its systems are offline following a “deliberate malicious cyberattack.” The Joint Commission on Public Ethics said IT officials took the webserver that houses its Lobbying Application and Financial Disclosure Statement Online Filing System and other systems down earlier in the week after being alerted of suspicious activity....

Recent Russian-linked cyberattacks — including against energy pipelines and government services — show the potential for Russian cyber warriors to put U.S. civilians at risk. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Ukrainian government and banking websites have been knocked offline with another wave of distributed-denial-of-service attacks.

NSA Deputy Director of Cybersecurity Anne Neuberger outlined efforts to counter Russian cyberattacks on Ukraine and its allies. “Russia likes to move in the shadows and counts on a long process of attribution so it can continue its malicious behavior against Ukraine in cyberspace,” said Neuberger.

President Joe Biden said back in July that if the U.S. ends up in a war with a major power it would “be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence.”

While attacks on larger districts garner more headlines, ransomware gangs tended to target smaller school districts in 2021 than in 2020, according to one cybersecurity expert.

A key part of President Joe Biden’s plans to fight major ransomware attacks and digital espionage campaigns has been languishing for more than eight months