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Andrew Blake

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Andrew Blake was a cybersecurity reporter for The Washington Times.

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In this May 15, 2017, file photo, employees watch electronic boards monitoring possible ransomware cyberattacks at the Korea Internet and Security Agency in Seoul, South Korea. (Yun Dong-jin/Yonhap via AP, File)

Ransomware behind 39 percent of malware cases: Verizon security report

Ransomware viruses like the types that recently impacted public services in Atlanta and Baltimore accounted for nearly 40 percent of malicious software-related security breaches last year, including the vast majority of malware incidents within the health care sector, according to Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) released Tuesday.

April 10, 2018
Tyler Barriss appears for an extradition hearing at Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in Los Angeles. Barriss, accused of making a hoax emergency call that led to the fatal police shooting of a Kansas man, told a judge Wednesday he would not fight efforts to send him to Wichita to face charges. (Irfan Khan /Los Angeles Times via AP, Pool)

Swatting suspect’s Twitter account tweets threat during jail glitch

A Twitter account linked to Tyler Barriss, a manslaughter suspect in custody awaiting trial in connection with the deadly "swatting" prank that killed a Wichita man late last year, briefly became active when a software upgrade allowed several inmates to get online, the Sedgwick County Sheriff's said Monday.

April 10, 2018
A hacker took over the National Football League's Twitter account on Tuesday. The individual falsely reported NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's death. (Twitter, NFL)

Singapore sentences Twitter hacker over NFL breach: Report

A computer hacker has been sentenced by a court in Singapore in connection with compromising the National Football League's official Twitter account in 2016 and falsely announcing the death of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

April 6, 2018
This March 2, 2016, file photo shows the Google office building on Ninth Avenue in New York's Chelsea neighborhood. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Google employees protest involvement in Pentagon drone project

Thousands of Google employees have signed a letter urging the company's chief executive to pull out of a Pentagon drone surveillance program, "Project Maven," warning further participation will "irreparably damage" its image and conflict with its motto, "Don't Be Evil."

April 5, 2018
This Feb. 19, 2014, file photo, shows a Facebook app icon on a smartphone in New York. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Missouri probes Facebook’s data policies after Cambridge Analytica scandal

Missouri's attorney general has opened an investigation into whether Facebook violated state consumer protection laws following revelations involving its ties to Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm hired by the 2016 Trump campaign accused of exploiting the personal information of millions of Facebook users without their permission.

April 3, 2018