cybersecurity

Because of a “cyber incident” with vendor BridgePay, Denton utility customers haven’t been able to pay their bills with credit or debit cards since Friday, including the Pay as You Go option, according to an update from the city Monday.

The city hasn't been able to access police and other records after a ransomware group attacked its servers on Aug. 5.

The Lone Star State reported the second-highest number of complaints and financial losses last year.

"Smishing" scams aim to compromise your data and pilfer money. And if you think the problem is getting worse, you're right.

The outage appeared only to affect the public safety department. Websites for other state agencies were operational Monday evening.

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport says travelers should expect delays Friday as airlines respond to the global technology outage for Microsoft Windows systems.

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.

Hackers last October got names, addresses, phone numbers of Dallas County employees — including those of high-level elected officials.

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.

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.

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.

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.