Indy airport, BMV among those affected by global technology outage
A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air on Friday.
A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and media outlets off air on Friday.
Consumers reported losing about $10 billion to fraud in 2023, a 14% jump from 2022. Online shopping scams were the second most-reported form of fraud.
Indianapolis-based information technology firm Sondhi Solutions has rebranded as Exos Cos. and plans to add 250 new employees by the end of 2028.
Approximately 109 million customer accounts were impacted, according to AT&T, which said that it currently doesn’t believe that the data is publicly available.
The IRS confirmed to The Washington Post that 80,000 people and businesses have been affected by the leak. IRS officials, pushed by a lawsuit filed by Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin, apologized to him and the other taxpayers through a news release last week.
By a 6-3 vote, the justices threw out lower-court rulings that favored Louisiana, Missouri and other parties in their claims that administration officials leaned on social media platforms to squelch conservative points of view.
CDK Global, a company that provides software for thousands of auto dealers in the U.S. and Canada, was hit by back-to-back cyberattacks Wednesday. That led to an outage that has continued to impact operations.
The House Homeland Security Committee grilled Microsoft President Brad Smith on Thursday about the software giant’s plans to improve its security after devastating hacks reached into federal officials’ email accounts, challenging the company’s fitness as a dominant government contractor.
The Tech Diplomacy Academy offers subscribers a series of one-hour courses led by Purdue faculty about such topics as hypersonics, cybersecurity, robotics and neural networks.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday issued an alert urging water systems to take immediate actions to protect the nation’s drinking water.
The 840-bed Ascension St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis is among the facilities feeling the effects of the cyberattack.
One of the big challenges with data security is keeping in compliance with the Indiana Rules of Professional Conduct, which deal with confidentiality of information in the attorney-client relationship.
More than a year after its acquisition by Marion-based Indiana Wesleyan University, Indianapolis-based Eleven Fifty Academy is rolling out big, future-focused changes.
TechPoint named its 2024 Mira Awards winners Friday night. The program, which honors achievements in Indiana’s tech sector, recognized 18 winners, including nine from the Indianapolis area.
The U.S. government said Thursday that Russian government hackers who recently stole Microsoft corporate emails had obtained passwords and other secret material that might allow them to breach multiple U.S. agencies.
Sid Bose spent a decade working in IT before he started a law career.
The Cyber Safety Review Board describes shoddy cybersecurity practices, a lax corporate culture and a lack of sincerity about the company’s knowledge of the targeted breach, which affected multiple U.S. agencies that deal with China.
AT&T said that a dataset found on the “dark web” contains information including some Social Security numbers and passcodes for about 7.6 million current account holders and 65.4 million former account holders.
Targets included officials at the White House and multiple government agencies, including the Treasury and Commerce departments, senators from both parties, the spouse of a senior Justice Department official, political strategists, and political figures from around the world who were critical of the Chinese government.
Several justices said they were concerned that common interactions between government officials and the platforms could be affected by a ruling for the states.