1+ hour, 22+ min ago  (1095+ words) The disciplinary files of Los Angeles police officers are closely guarded secrets, protected by some of the nation's strictest confidentiality laws. But now, many of those secret files have been splashed across the internet, along with tens of thousands of…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (242+ words) A trove of sensitive LAPD records, including officer personnel files and documents from Internal Affairs investigations, are among the materials believed to have been seized by hackers in a breach last month involving the L. A. city attorney's office. Some of the…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (1149+ words) WASHINGTON'U. S. intelligence agencies are "urgently warning" private sector companies throughout the nation that Iranian actors "are conducting exploitation activity" that has resulted in "disruptions across several U. S. critical infrastructure," according to a government notice reviewed by The Times. The Iranian cyberactivity…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (319+ words) L. A. Metro shut down parts of its network after its security team detected hacking activity last month, and law enforcement and cybersecurity specialists are continuing to investigate who was behind the attack, authorities said. "On Monday, March 16, Metro proactively limited employee…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (448+ words) COLUMBIA, S. C. Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina congressman and governor whose political ascendancy was stalled by a 2009 affair, wants to return to Congress again. Just hours ahead of the deadline to do so, Sanford filed candidacy paperwork with state officials…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (250+ words) Kash Patel, the current head of the FBI, who once saw his name displayed with pride on the agency's headquarters, will now find his name among the list of successfully hacked victims," said a message posted Friday from the group…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (12+ words) 'Bait' review: Riz Ahmed's marvelous comedy centered around James Bond'Los Angeles Times...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1096+ words) Welcome to the age of AI hacking, in which the right prompts make amateurs into master hackers. A group of cybercriminals recently used off-the-shelf artificial intelligence chatbots to steal data on nearly 200 million taxpayers. The bots provided the code and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (921+ words) The investigation that led to last week's FBI raid at the home and office of schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho stemmed from a referral more than a year ago from New York prosecutors working a criminal fraud case involving a technology…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1187+ words) Los Angeles Unified schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho introduced "Ed" the AI chatbot amid fanfare in March 2024, touting a revolutionary tool that would put the district at the leading edge of school technology. But the multimillion-dollar project failed within months and…...