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Texas Tech University System data breach impacts 1.4 million patients
2024-12-16 22:17

The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and its El Paso counterpart suffered a cyberattack that disrupted computer systems and applications, potentially exposing the data of 1.4 million...

Texas sues GM for selling driver data to analytics, insurance companies
2024-08-14 18:06

Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with "millions in lump sum payments" from the sale Texas has sued General Motors for what it said is a years-long scheme to collect and sell drivers' data to...

Texas Sues GM for Collecting Driving Data without Consent
2024-08-14 16:48

Texas is suing General Motors for collecting driver data without consent and then selling it to insurance companies: From CNN: In car models from 2015 and later, the Detroit-based car manufacturer...

Nigerian who hacked Texas retirement fund gets 12 years in prison
2024-08-13 16:42

42-year-old Nigerian national Bamidele Omotosho has been sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for his role in a series of cyber scams that resulted in millions of dollars in losses for...

Meta Settles for $1.4 Billion with Texas Over Illegal Biometric Data Collection
2024-07-31 04:38

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, agreed to a record $1.4 billion settlement with the U.S. state of Texas over allegations that it illegally collected biometric data of millions of users without their permission, marking one of the largest penalties levied by regulators against the tech giant. The development arrived more than two years after the social media behemoth was sued for unlawfully capturing facial data belonging to Texas without their informed consent as is required by the law.

PornHub now also blocks Texas over age verification laws
2024-03-15 17:11

PornHub has now added Texas to its blocklist, preventing users in the state from accessing its site in protest of age verification laws. The bill requires adult sites showing sexual material to perform age verification to confirm a visitor from Texas is 18 years old.

University of Texas latest US school to ban TikTok
2023-01-19 16:15

Faculty and students at the University of Texas at Austin this week became the latest members of a public US university to lose access to Chinese video app TikTok via campus networks. According to Neyland's email, the ban puts the university in compliance with a December directive issued by state governor Greg Abbott.

Alleged Kaseya ransomware attacker arrives in Texas for trial
2022-03-11 19:59

Instead, it's remembered as the weekend of the infamous Kaseya ransomware attack. In other words, the crooks used Kaseya's infrastructure to disseminate and detonate ransomware infections on Kaseya's customers' computers, combining two security weaknesses to spread their malware much more widely than if they had attacked Kaseya alone.

'Holy Moly!': Inside Texas' Fight Against a Ransomware Hack
2021-07-26 12:37

Texas communities struggled for days with disruptions to core government services as workers in small cities and towns endured a cascade of frustrations brought on by the sophisticated cyberattack, according to thousands of pages of documents reviewed by The Associated Press and interviews with people involved in the response. In Borger, a city of fewer than 13,000, early indications were worrisome as the city raced to shut down its computers.

Texas power outage highlights need for better use of data analytics, modeling and policy making
2021-02-23 22:20

Rob Robinson, client partner in utilities practice for Capgemini, talks with TechRepublic about what the catastrophic outages in Texas should teach us about predicting threats to U.S. the power grid.