Cybersecurity

The new Apple iOS 18 feature allows texting features between iPhone users and Androids, but U.S. officials are urging caution, citing cybersecurity concerns.

FBI and CISA officials said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.

A Yorba Linda man is the latest victim to the recent series of pricey laptop thefts in Southern California, where thieves are using QR codes and fake ID’s to impersonate the customer. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m.

It has happened again. A Yorba Linda man said he is one of the latest victims of the recent rash of pricey laptop thefts in Southern California.

Officials from the FBI and CISA said it was impossible to predict when the telecommunications companies would be fully safe from interlopers.

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.

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...

The Superior Court of Los Angeles County announced it will be closed Monday as it continues to repair the network system that was impacted by a ransomware attack Friday morning.

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.

The Superior Court of Los Angeles County announced that the Court’s internal systems were victim to a ransomware attack Friday morning.

Hackers used a common method to breach a third party business that AT&T uses to store data, a mobile security expert said. This segment appeared on the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Friday, July 12, 2024.

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.