by Kimberly Jin | Sep 2, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Virtually unheard of five years ago, “ransomware” attacks have emerged as a serious and growing risk to governments and businesses operating in the digital age. Ransomware is designed to lock up critical computer data until the victim pays hackers a...
by Kimberly Jin and Apoorva Mittal | Aug 28, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON – Tammy Hineline, a Marine Corps veteran, shared her kayaking experience with her father at Sunday’s storytelling graduation show. The show followed a seven-week storytelling class organized by the Armed Services Arts Partnership (ASAP), a non-profit...
by Dwight A. Weingarten | Aug 28, 2019 | Featured, National Security
Baltimore Mayor Bernard “Jack” Young faced a crisis less than a week into his new job when a ransomware attack hit the city’s computer systems — cutting off emails and shutting down online bill collections for everything from utilities to real estate...
by Noah Broder | Aug 28, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — A wave of ransomware attacks has affected cities across the country, recently hitting more than a dozen Texas towns and last year shutting down Baltimore’s city government. Just this week, there are signs that portions of the technology that...
by Josephine Chu | Aug 28, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Alysis Morrissey was sitting at her desk last October when she stumbled upon a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “It said we only have 12 years to change our course and prevent a climate catastrophe from threatening life...
by Josephine Chu | Aug 27, 2019 | Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — The parents of Christopher Allen, a 26-year-old British-American freelance journalist killed while covering the civil war in South Sudan, said at a vigil Monday on the two-year anniversary of his death that the South Sudanese government should be...
