Huge Fire Breaks Out at Beirut Port a Month After Explosion September 11, 2020 By Zeina Karam and Hassan Ammar BEIRUT — A huge fire broke out Thursday at the Port of Beirut, sending up a thick column of black...
Search Warrant Served on Teen for Twitter Hack, NYT Reports September 2, 2020 By William Turton The FBI on Tuesday served a search warrant on a 16-year-old related to his alleged role in the July 15...
Twitter Scammers Just Wanted Money. But What if They Had Worse Plans? July 16, 2020 By Ayanti Bera and Nandita Bose The hackers who seized control of the Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Barack Obama and Elon Musk appear...
Portland’s Downtown Police Precinct Boarded Up July 2, 2020 PORTLAND, Ore. — Workers have installed plywood over windows and washed off graffiti near the entrance to the downtown Portland...
How a T-Mobile Outage Got Mistaken for a Cyber Attack June 23, 2020 By Tara Lachapelle The T-Mobile US Inc. network went down for about 13 hours beginning Monday afternoon, and it wasn’t until almost a...
Justice Department Outlines Broad Overhaul of Social Media Legal Protections June 18, 2020 By Ben Brody and Chris Strohm The Justice Department on Wednesday outlined a broad overhaul of legal protections for online platforms such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google...
United Air Is Sued by Passenger for Refusing to Refund Fare April 7, 2020 By Chris Dolmetsch United Airlines Holdings Inc. was sued by a passenger for refusing to issue refunds for canceled flights, three days after...
Zoom Grapples With Security Flaws That Sour Users on App April 3, 2020 By Alyza Sebenius and Kartikay Mehrotra During the coronavirus pandemic, it seems as if everyone is connecting with Zoom’s videoconferencing app — including, on occasion, unwanted...
Science Says: How Risky is That Virus? Your Mind May Mislead March 6, 2020 By Malcolm Ritter NEW YORK — Anna Alexander, a property manager in Virginia Beach, Virginia, started the day Monday thinking that she might...
Coronavirus Rumors Spread on App Cripple Los Angeles’ Koreatown March 3, 2020 By Brian Melley LOS ANGELES — In a Koreatown restaurant known for its beef bone broth soup, the lunchtime crowd Friday was half...