Data Security and Encryption

A hack of health-care data involving a medical bill collector and two major diagnostics companies has grown to almost 20 million people, and is now attracting more questions from key members of Congress.

Appropriate response to risk requires presenting information in a way that makes the security consequences impossible to ignore.

In the AI-fueled security wars, most of the arsenal is currently in the hands of the good guys, but the balance of power might soon change.

As enterprises and users become increasingly concerned about who can access their data and why, tech's browser makers respond with plug-ins that bolster security and privacy. Also this week: Your AI might be an artifact of gender bias; Salesforce...

Executives from Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google faced congressional lawmakers Wednesday amid concerns that the companies haven’t done enough to guard against foreign influence campaigns in the 2020 elections.

Experts say exploits would be sophisticated and take a long time to build, but operators should act now.

Financial watchdogs are preparing one of the broadest war-gaming exercises to test the effect of a cyber attack that disables a large international bank for days.