/tags/cybersecurity cybersecurity en-US Copyright Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:06:02 GMT /texas-news/2025-04-23/texas-internet-crime-complaint-center-fbi The Lone Star State reported the second-highest number of complaints and financial losses last year. Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:06:02 GMT /texas-news/2025-04-23/texas-internet-crime-complaint-center-fbi Lucio Vasquez | The Texas Newsroom /2025-03-14/dont-click-here-to-pay-your-tolls-how-you-can-stop-spam-texts "Smishing" scams aim to compromise your data and pilfer money. And if you think the problem is getting worse, you're right. Fri, 14 Mar 2025 18:33:46 GMT /2025-03-14/dont-click-here-to-pay-your-tolls-how-you-can-stop-spam-texts Bill Chappell /texas-news/2024-12-31/texas-public-safety-department-announces-systemwide-outage-closes-driver-license-offices The outage appeared only to affect the public safety department. Websites for other state agencies were operational Monday evening. Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:01:15 GMT /texas-news/2024-12-31/texas-public-safety-department-announces-systemwide-outage-closes-driver-license-offices Stephen Simpson | The Texas Tribune /transportation/2024-07-19/glitch-from-austin-based-company-crowdstrike-grounds-flights-at-abia-and-worldwide Austin-Bergstrom International Airport says travelers should expect delays Friday as airlines respond to the global technology outage for Microsoft Windows systems. Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:10:23 GMT /transportation/2024-07-19/glitch-from-austin-based-company-crowdstrike-grounds-flights-at-abia-and-worldwide Andy Jechow /news/2024-07-19/what-we-know-about-the-computer-update-glitch-disrupting-systems-around-the-world A tech meltdown left workers at airlines, banks and hospitals staring at the dreaded “blue screen of death” as their computers went inert in what is being described as a historic outage. Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:34:08 GMT /news/2024-07-19/what-we-know-about-the-computer-update-glitch-disrupting-systems-around-the-world Brian Mann, Bobby Allyn, Bill Chappell, Fatima Al-Kassab /news/2024-07-18/social-security-numbers-stolen-from-dallas-county-employees-their-dependents-in-data-breach Hackers last October got names, addresses, phone numbers of Dallas County employees — including those of high-level elected officials. Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:52:41 GMT /news/2024-07-18/social-security-numbers-stolen-from-dallas-county-employees-their-dependents-in-data-breach Marina Trahan Martinez /business-economy/2024-07-17/class-action-suit-att-data-breach-2022-dallas The Dallas-based telecommunications company says it doesn't believe the data compromised in a breach that affected nearly all its more than 100 million customers is public. Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:17:16 GMT /business-economy/2024-07-17/class-action-suit-att-data-breach-2022-dallas Toluwani Osibamowo /news/2024-07-12/at-t-2022-security-breach-hits-nearly-all-cellular-customers-and-landline-accounts-with-contact A security breach in 2022 compromised the data of nearly all of AT&T’s cellular customers, customers of mobile virtual network operators using AT&T’s wireless network, as well as landline customers who interacted with those cellular numbers. Fri, 12 Jul 2024 12:30:49 GMT /news/2024-07-12/at-t-2022-security-breach-hits-nearly-all-cellular-customers-and-landline-accounts-with-contact The Associated Press /education/2024-06-28/texas-teachers-group-says-data-breach-compromised-info-for-more-than-400-000-people-association-of-texas-professional-educators The Association of Texas Professional Educators, the largest independent educators’ association in the United States, was hit with a data breach that compromised the information of more than 414,000 Texans. Fri, 28 Jun 2024 10:20:11 GMT /education/2024-06-28/texas-teachers-group-says-data-breach-compromised-info-for-more-than-400-000-people-association-of-texas-professional-educators Megan Cardona /government/2024-06-13/frontier-communications-hit-with-class-action-suit-in-texas-after-massive-data-breach Dallas-based telecommunications company Frontier Communications Parent suffered a data breach in April that compromised the information of more than 88,000 Texans and hundreds of thousands more across the country. Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:00:00 GMT /government/2024-06-13/frontier-communications-hit-with-class-action-suit-in-texas-after-massive-data-breach Megan Cardona