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Nov. 15, 2017 No one’s financial information is safe from hackers at the Internal Revenue Service — not even President Trump’s. That’s according to fraud investigator John Powers, who suspects Trump’s tax returns have been stolen from the IRS. Powers ...

Though death and taxes always have been a part of the human experience, hackers now have become yet another unavoidable fact of modern life in this century. Unfortunately, such cyber threats have become so abundant that you can almost guarantee ...

  Unidentified foreign hackers in recent weeks penetrated the computer systems that control elections in two states, the FBI has revealed. The federal government is so concerned about the threat that Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson wants federal cybersecurity experts ...

Hackers now have the ability to bring down an entire bank by cyberattack, one of the world’s top banking officials is warning. Gottfried Leibbrandt, the CEO of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication), said major cyberattacks on banks in ...

  Hackers wanting to sabotage the US power grid or other critical infrastructure can do so with a simple Internet search, primarily because some critical systems are outdated and lack even password protection, an NBC News investigation has found. The ...

The Justice Department will soon release a statement blaming Iranian hackers for a 2013 cyberattack on a dam near New York City, according to CNN, which also reported that the department will bring an indictment against the suspected hackers. Officials ...

Hackers in the past five years successfully penetrated more than 150 times the computer networks at the federal department that controls the nation’s nuclear weapons, nuclear weapon factories, nuclear-research facilities and that handles security for America’s electrical grid, according to ...

Even seemingly good passwords provide little or no protection against hackers, experts hired by the Pentagon discovered. When a company called KoreLogic was hired to evaluate password security by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA, a Pentagon agency, ...

Terrorists and other bad guys could easily seize control of aircraft and disrupt their operations via hacking, a leading security researcher has discovered. Ruben Santamarta of security firm IOActive discovered that the SATCOM (satellite communications) devices which planes use to ...

In a revelation that could give Americans pause about their privacy on government-run websites, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked into President Obama’s Twitter account, Facebook page and campaign website. The “Donate” page on the president’s website was apparently the hacking ...