cyber crime

Hackers based in China may have obtained personnel data on as many as 4 million federal employees in a large-scale cyberattack uncovered this spring, administration officials said Thursday.

In wake of a data breach at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, Attorney General Brian E. Frosh is encouraging consumers to be diligent in protecting their private information.

A "sophisticated cyberattack" has compromised personal information of about 1.1 million customers of CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield, the region's largest health insurer, the company said Wednesday.

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It will be the first major update to the Defense Department's strategy for cyber operations in four years, in which time computer security has become a more visible issue after major attacks on American businesses including Sony Picture Entertainment late last year.

In a Columbia office with a Jolly Roger hanging from the ceiling and internet cables sprouting madly from the desks, a team of National Security Agency hackers was trying Wednesday to take down networks set up by military cadets.

We don't outlaw cars just because people have accidents. Rather, we have automotive safety standards, rules of the road and consequences for reckless driving. Similarly, online poker should not be illegal just because there are computer security concerns. Rather, gaming can be regulated and security issues can be managed.

A thief had stolen a rare 16th-century book from Italy. It was Marty Hamlin's job to find it, and help bring it home.

Onstage at a major computer security summit at Stanford University, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Friday to make it easier for private companies to dip into the government's deep reservoirs of data on cyberattacks.

TurboTax, the country's most popular do-it-yourself tax preparation software, said Friday that it had temporarily stopped processing state tax returns because of an increase in fraudulent filings.

A hacker displaying sympathy for terrorist group ISIS commandeered the main Twitter feed of an Eastern Shore TV station.

For years, the group of hackers took on assumed names on popular sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn to lure in their targets — defense and other government workers here and abroad.

It is past time for the government and the private sector to begin a more robust sharing of cyber-attack information. We need enabling, common sense legislation from Congress, the appropriate executive orders from the president and engagement in an environment of mutual trust between the government and the private sector before we really do face a "Cyber Pearl Harbor."

The Sony attack isn't cyberwar -- but we still need to figure out a way to deal with attacks like it.

Sony allows for limited Christmas Day release of the controversial Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy.

A measured U.S. response to North Korea's massive hack of Sony Pictures should include both public condemnation and covert countermeasures

The American people now have a censor — North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and they can thank President Obama's failure to defend their rights to free speech and privacy for it.

State auditors say the University of Maryland, College Park's campus network remains vulnerable to hacking even after a massive data breach revealed security flaws in February, in part because some gaps identified five years ago remain.

Thieves who steal data are striking with alarming frequency. And more and more, security experts say, cyber-criminals are targeting the places where people shop.

When federal databases containing sensitive information on U.S. intelligence or nuclear weapons come under cyber attack, the agencies call on major companies like Lockheed Martin, Verizon and Booz Allen Hamilton – and a two-year old startup in Federal Hill – to shore up defenses.

Consumers who shopped this summer at Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, which has 20 Baltimore-area stores, could have been victims of credit card data theft, owner Supervalu Inc. said.

Customers who visited P.F. Chang's China Bistro at the Inner Harbor during two months this spring may be victims of debit and credit card data theft, the Scottsdale-based chain warned today in an announcement of a widespread security breach at 33 locations across the U.S.

The FBI is investigating a former University of Maryland contract worker who said he took College Park administrators' personal information from the campus network and posted online about the stunt to draw attention to major security flaws.

The University of Maryland, College Park, suffered another recent cyberattack on the heels of the theft of personal data on hundreds of thousands of students, staff and alumni.

High-profile cyber attacks on organizations such as Target and Neiman Marcus have drawn increased attention to the cybersecurity industry — an industry that continues to thrive in Maryland, and specifically in Howard County.

Educational institutions are increasingly becoming the targets of hackers seeking sensitive or otherwise valuable data, prompting academics to reconsider what data to keep, for how long and where.

A cyberattack that forced Carroll County Public Schools to shut down its network Feb. 25 has continued to cause "intermittent issues" with internet speeds, but it has not disrupted instruction, according to school officials.

A week after the University of Maryland was the victim of a data breach, President Wallace D. Loh announced Tuesday that he is extending free credit protection services to the 309,000 students, alumni and employees affected from one to five years and forming a task force to identify any other vulnerabilities.

Maryland doesn't have to wait for Congress to act in order to better protect citizens from cyber crime

A data breach at the University of Maryland has exposed the identities of more than 309,000 faculty, students, staff and affiliated personnel at the College Park and Shady Grove campuses since 1998, University President Wallace Loh announced Wednesday night.

Being a woman, especially a woman of color, raises one's risk of cyber harassment — the intentional infliction of severe emotional distress through persistent online speech.

Delegate running for attorney general suggests a felony and $25k fine for publishing lude photos of ex-lovers

The end came quickly for Silk Road, when federal agents crept in to nab the alleged kingpin of the secret $1.2 billion online drug marketplace as he sat at his laptop in the sci-fi section of a San Francisco public library.

An undercover federal agent in Maryland played a key role in the shutdown Wednesday of what authorities describe as a massive online drug marketplace, owned by a 29-year-old engineer who authorities say had begun scheming to kill perceived rivals.

Police have used the label to publicize the search for three suspects this year, who were all arrested within days