Kungsbackabon får villkorligt straff och samhällstjänst i 120 timmar medan mannen hemmahörande i Tyskland får tre års fängelse för inblandningen i sajten Swefilmer.Det är en 26-årig man, boende i Tyskland, och en 23-årig Kungsbackabo som döms för att tillsammans ha...

Microsoft on Sunday said a software vulnerability stolen from the U.S. National Security Agency has affected customers around the world, and described the spread of the WannaCrypt ransomware on Friday in many countries as yet another example of the problems caused by...

Den senaste dagarnas IT-attack är unik. Inget annat ransomeware-virus har tidigare spridit sig så snabbt. Den skadliga koden sprider sig nu vidare i Kina och ännu vet man inte vem som ligger bakom attacken.Minst 200.000 företag, sjukhus, regeringsorgan och andra...

MP3, the digital audio coding format, changed the way we listen to music and drove the adoption of countless new devices over the last couple of decades. And now, it’s dead. The developer of the format announced this week that it has officially terminated its...

Asian governments and businesses reported some disruptions from the WannaCry ransomware worm on Monday but cybersecurity experts warned of a wider impact as more employees turned on their computers and checked e-mails.The ransomware that has locked up hundreds of...

South Korea's presidential Blue House office said on Monday there have been nine cases of ransomware found in the country so far, but did not provide details on where the cyber attacks were discovered. Authorities have been analyzing 48 samples of the cyber worm and...

NHS chiefs and Europol have warned of possible fresh disruption from the global cyber-attack when workers switch on their computers for the first time at the start of the working week.The pan-EU crime-fighting agency said the threat from the attack was escalating and...

Smartphones with batteries that fully charge in five minutes could be available to consumers next year.The technology was first shown off in 2015, when Israeli start-up StoreDot demonstrated its FlashBattery at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.Chief executive Doron...

On August 7, 1974, a trio of Republican politicians made a sombre journey from Capitol Hill to the White House. Senators Barry Goldwater and Hugh Scott and Representative John Rhodes had dedicated their professional lives to the conservative movement and to the...

A massive ransomware attack was carried out Friday, hitting hospitals, companies and government offices in nearly 100 countries.It spread through a vulnerability leaked last month in a trove of hacking tools believed to belong to the NSA. The ransomware outbreak has...

Eighty years after the first Americans went to war against Nazi-backed fascists, a small group of historians trying to preserve the volunteers’ memory has found their services unexpectedly in demand.“Why are people puzzled over the meaning of that word, fascism?”...

Just 29 percent of Americans say they approve of President Donald Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey, while 38 percent disapprove, according to results from a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Another 32 percent of respondents don't have enough to...