AP Investigation: US power grid vulnerable to foreign hacks
By GARANCE BURKE and JONATHAN FAHEY Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university’s housing files when he stumbled into a larger…
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Debate unknown: How will Clinton handle data breach dust-up?
By LISA LERER In the first debate of the Democratic presidential campaign, Bernie Sanders dismissed concerns about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email account and server while she was…
Rupert Murdoch’s UK papers won’t face phone hacking charges
By JILL LAWLESS More than four years after revelations of tabloid phone hacking shocked Britain, prosecutors said Friday that the criminal investigation is over, ruling out corporate prosecution of Rupert…
South America hacker team targets dissidents, journalists
By FRANK BAJAK A shadowy cyber-espionage group that sent malware to the prosecutor whose mysterious death transfixed Argentina early this year has been hitting targets in left-leaning nations across South…
House tightens controls on visa-free travel to US
By ERICA WERNER Driven by the Paris terror attacks, the House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to tighten controls on travel to the U.S. and require visas for anyone who’s been in…
Greek town glimpses mass transit future: driverless buses
By DEREK GATOPOULOS There’ll be no arguing with the driver on this bus: the rides are free and there’s no driver anyway. Trikala, a rural town in northern Greece, has…
Clinton subject to hack attempts from China, Korea, Germany
By KEN DILANIAN, JACK GILLUM and STEPHEN BRAUN Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server, which stored some 55,000 pages of emails from her time as secretary of state, was the…
Auto experts: Top managers probably knew of VW cheating
By TOM KRISHER and MICHAEL BIESECKER Auto industry insiders strongly suspect the emissions cheating scandal at Volkswagen is much wider and reaches higher up the corporate ladder than the company…