Andrea Peterson

Yahoo's company's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif.

Yahoo discovered hack leading to major data breach nearly two years ago

May 23, 2019 at 7:07 p.m.

Yahoo first discovered the hack that led to a data breach affecting more than half a billion accounts nearly two years before the attack was disclosed in September, according to...

Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note 7 smartphones are displayed at the company's showroom in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday, Sept. 10.

Here’s why those Samsung phone batteries exploded

May 23, 2019 at 7:05 p.m.

Lithium ion batteries show up in all sort of tech these days, from your phone and laptop to airplanes and electric vehicles. But a voluntary recall of some 2.5 million...

Samsung's Welt, the smart belt that monitors the user's waistline with an app, is displayed at the Samsung booth at CES 2016 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 6, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Just what we need, a smart belt that tells us we’ve eaten too much

June 12, 2018 at 4:48 p.m.

Your belt already has a built-in mechanism that prevents overeating: When you've had too much, you have to loosen it. But the makers of an upcoming smart belt dubbed the...

The National Security Agency's campus in Fort Meade, Md.

NSA use of software ?aws for hacking posed risk to cybersecurity

August 22, 2019 at 12:43 a.m.

To penetrate the computers of foreign targets, the National Security Agency relies on software flaws that have gone undetected in the pipes of the Internet. For years, security experts have...

DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., speaks during a Florida delegation breakfast, Monday, July 25, 2016, in Philadelphia, during the first day of the Democratic National Convention.

Why we don’t count to 10 before hitting ‘send’ on our emails

June 10, 2018 at 3:25 p.m.

By now it should be abundantly clear that anything written in email could very well end up read by anyone with an Internet connection. This we know. It's the lesson...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens as President Barack Obama speaks about her during a campaign event at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, July 5, 2016. Obama is spending the afternoon campaigning for Clinton.

Why we may never know if Hillary Clinton’s private email system was hacked

May 23, 2019 at 7:03 p.m.

FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that the agency did not recommend criminal charges against presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email system for...

Google said Wednesday, May 11, 2016, that it will ban ads from payday lenders, calling the industry "deceptive" and "harmful." Google said it will no longer allow ads for loans due within 60 days and will also ban ads for loans where the interest rate is 36 percent or higher. The ban is effective July 13.

Google to ban payday loan advertisements, calls industry ‘harmful’

June 12, 2018 at 3:58 a.m.

Google announced Wednesday that it will ban all payday loan ads from its site, bowing to concerns by advocates who say the lending practice exploits the poor and vulnerable by...

Online giant Amazon must pay damages to consumers billed for app purchases by children on its tablets, a federal court has ruled, in a win for US regulators.

Amazon unfairly billed parents for their kids’ in-app purchases, a judge rules

June 11, 2018 at 2:23 a.m.

A federal court found Amazon liable for charging parents for unauthorized in-app purchases made by kids, siding with the Federal Trade Commission in a case that stretched back to 2014....

In reporting its first quarter earnings, Google said its online ad revenue dropped 9 percent.

Google parent Alphabet sees a worrisome slowdown in online advertising

June 12, 2018 at 7:45 a.m.

Google's parent company, Alphabet, reported first-quarter earnings Thursday that fell short of analysts' expectations as advertising revenue slowed more than Wall Street had expected.One of Alphabet's most important metrics -...

This picture taken on February 4, 2016 shows an employee simulating a cyber-attack at the National engineering elite school of Bretagne-Sud cybersecurity center in Vannes, western France. American universities may not be doing enough to train students on cybersecurity.

Analysis: Universities aren’t doing enough to train the cyberdefenders America desperately needs

June 12, 2018 at 6:45 a.m.

The threat of hacking seems to lurk around every corner, but American universities may not be doing enough to prepare the next generation of cyberdefenders. None of America's top 10...

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