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The inside of a computer in Jersey City, New Jersey, February 23, 2019. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
August 2, 2020, 7:15 pm
Ransomware feared as possible threat for US presidential election
Experts see such a cyberattack as realistic probability ahead of November; officials warn that a single employee falling for spearphishing attack could compromise systems
By Eric Tucker, CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY and Frank Bajak
A man walks past a building on the Google campus in Mountain View, California, November 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
June 5, 2020, 11:56 am
Google: State-backed hackers from Iran, China target Trump and Biden campaigns
Tech company says it sent targeted users a ‘government-backed attack warning,’ found no evidence the phishing attempts were successful
By Frank Bajak
In this March 10, 2020 file photo, a woman wearing a face mask checks her phone as she walks at the Naviglio Grande canal in Milan, Italy. Across Europe, governments are increasingly using surveillance to try to curtail the lethal spread of the new coronavirus, tracking people’s movements with aggregated cell phone location data and introducing apps to keep the infected quarantined. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
March 24, 2020, 5:47 am
Europe eyes smartphone location data to stem virus spread
Following the lead of Asian governments and Israel, EU countries weigh moves that could put public health at odds with individual privacy
By Frank Bajak and Nicole Winfield
This combination of photos shows Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 24, 2019 and Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, in Washington, on Sept. 13, 2018 (AP Photo)
January 24, 2020, 10:48 am
What we know, and don’t, about the alleged Bezos phone hack
UN rights experts want a probe into reported hack of phone of Amazon boss, but the forensic evidence they cite comes from an incomplete study
By Frank Bajak
Illustrative photo of a hacker breaking into a computer. (gorodenkoff via iStockPhoto)
January 14, 2020, 6:16 am
Russian agents hacked company key to Trump Ukraine scandal: researchers
Timing of operation suggests hackers of Burisma gas company were searching for material that could damage the Bidens
By Frank Bajak
Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert stands in front of a map of Iran as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, September 20, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)
January 4, 2020, 5:35 am
Iranian cyberattacks on US feared after Soleimani killing
Iran hackers among world’s most aggressive; could target manufacturing facilities, oil and gas plants, transit systems, experts say
By Frank Bajak
Women walk past a building damaged during recent protests, in Shahriar, Iran, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran, November 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 22, 2019, 10:54 am
Iran’s internet blackout the first to effectively isolate a whole nation
Shutdown of web by authorities during recent protests marks a milestone in efforts by authoritarian governments to censor online communications
By Frank Bajak
This combination of 2017-2018 photos shows from left, a Facebook posting from a group named "Being Patriotic" attributed to Russian agents by the US House Intelligence Committee, Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri whose campaign was targeted by Russian hackers and voting machines in Chicago after hackers found a way into the voter registration database at the Illinois State Board of Elections in mid-2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, Jeff Roberson, Kiichiro Sato)
September 2, 2018, 9:04 am
As US midterms approach, what is the risk of Russian meddling?
Despite no evidence of efforts to tamper with electoral rolls or voting machines, experts warn malware could have been planted for later use
By Frank Bajak and ADAM GELLER
This image released by HBO shows Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister in an episode of "Game of Thrones," which aired Sunday, Aug. 6. (AP)
August 8, 2017, 11:19 am
Hackers demand millions in ransom for stolen HBO data
Latest dump of stolen files includes what appear to be draft scripts from 5 ‘Game of Thrones’ episodes
By TALI ARBEL and Frank Bajak
In this Aug. 3, 2015 file photo, a photograph of murdered photojournalist Ruben Espinosa sits among flowers and candles in front of his casket inside a funeral home before his wake begins in Mexico City. (AP/Marco Ugarte, File)
August 3, 2017, 4:18 am
High-profile lawyers in Mexico targeted with Israeli-made spyware
Internet watchdog says counter-terrorism software designed by Herzliya-based NSO Group hits human rights attorneys
By Maria Verza and Frank Bajak
In this Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, photo, a carrier delivers mail along a section of border fence in Brownsville, Texas. The idea of a concrete wall spanning the entire 1,954-mile southwest frontier collides head-on with multiple realities, like a looping Rio Grande, fierce local resistance, and cost. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
November 23, 2016, 12:36 am
Americans who live near border say Trump’s wall is unwelcome
A 2,000 mile barrier across frontier with Mexico collides with geology and meets fierce local resistance
By Frank Bajak
Pedestrians talk on their cellphones in Lima, Peru, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
August 3, 2016, 2:26 pm
With cheap Israeli spy tools, nations are ‘monitoring everyone’
Technology enables governments, secret police to eavesdrop on citizens, arrest dissidents and spread fear
By Frank Bajak and Jack Gillum
Jacob Ostreicher in Los Angeles on December 15, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
January 6, 2015, 10:57 pm
Year after escaping Bolivia, Orthodox Jew struggles to recover
Businessman Jacob Ostreicher credits actor Sean Penn with saving him from Third World prison nightmare, but has yet to rebuild his life
By Frank Bajak
A vehicle from a funeral home is surrounded by journalists as it enters the home of the late Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Mexico City, on Thursday, April 17, 2014. (photo credit: AP/Marco Ugarte)
April 18, 2014, 1:28 am
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel laureate, dies at 87
Colombian writer, a giant of Spanish literature, wrote bestseller ‘100 Years of Solitude’; was friend of Castro
By Frank Bajak and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO
This undated family photo released on Thursday shows Timothy Tracy inside a vehicle in Venezuela (photo credit: AP/Courtesy of family)
April 26, 2013, 8:04 am
Venezuela to charge US filmmaker as ‘terrorist’
Authorities nab Timothy Tracy, accused of fomenting post-election violence, on his way out of the country
By Frank Bajak and Michael Weissenstein
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