Frank Bajak

Associated Press

The Amazon Spheres on the company's corporate campus are shown near the Space Needle in downtown Seattle, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage Tuesday, the company said, disrupting access to many popular sites.

Major Outage at Amazon Disrupts Businesses Across the U.S.

The incident impacted everything from auto dealerships to Amazon's e-commerce operation.

In this Nov. 10, 2016, file photo, people walk past a Microsoft office in New York. Microsoft on Oct. 7, 2021, says Russia once again accounted for most state-sponsored hacking, with a 58% share of intrusion attempts it detected in the past year. The targets were mostly government agencies — in the United States, followed by Ukraine, Britain and European NATO members.

Microsoft: Russia Behind 58% of Detected State-Backed Hacks

It mostly targeted government agencies and think tanks in the U.S.

Iowa Farm Cooperative Hit by Ransomware, Systems Go Offline

The attack hit just as Iowa's corn and soy harvesting is getting under way.

This Feb 23, 2019, file photo shows the inside of a computer in Jersey City, N.J. Cybersecurity teams worked feverishly Sunday, July 4, 2021, to stem the impact of the single biggest global ransomware attack on record.

Russia-Based Ransomware Gang Offline, Cause Unclear

The group was responsible for the Memorial Day ransomware attack on the meat processor JBS.

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends his annual live call-in show in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, June 30, 2021.

NSA Discloses Hacking Methods it Says Are Used by Russia

Attacks have been attempted on hundreds of government agencies, energy companies and other organizations.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announces the recovery of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from the Colonial Pipeline Co. ransomware attacks as she speaks during a news conference with FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate and acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Stephanie Hinds at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, June 7, 2021.

US Recovers Most of Ransom Paid After Colonial Pipeline Hack

Colonial officials had paid ransom in bitcoin valued at $4.4 million.

In this Oct. 13, 2018, file photo, a sign marks the entrance to the Tesla Gigafactory in Sparks, Nev. A Russian citizen has pleaded guilty to offering a Tesla employee $1 million to get malware into the electric car company's plant in Nevada and enable a ransomware attack. Attorneys representing Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov did not immediately respond Friday, March 19, 2021, to messages about his Thursday plea in U.S. District Court in Reno.

Russian Pleads Guilty to Tesla Ransomware Plot

He offered a Tesla employee $1 million to cripple the electric car company’s massive electric battery plant in Nevada.

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Apple, Google Team Up

They want to track down people who may have been infected by coronavirus carriers.

In this June 13, 2019, file photo, Steve Marcinkus, an Investigator with the Office of the City Commissioners, demonstrates the ExpressVote XL voting machine at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia.

Voting Machine Reliability Questioned

They are at least twice as expensive as the hand-marked paper ballot option.

In this Aug. 11, 2019, file photo an iPhone displays a Facebook page in New Orleans. A Ukrainian security researcher says a database with the names, phone numbers and unique user IDs of more than 267 million Facebook users was exposed on the open internet for at least 10 days this month.

Data on 267M Facebook Users Exposed

A database with names, phone numbers and unique user IDs of more than 267 million Facebook users was found on the open internet.

In this March 27, 2019, photo, author Shoshana Zuboff pauses while walking her dog near her home in Maine. Zuboff is the author of 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,' a book about how tech companies collect and use personal data.

Meet the Scholar Who Diagnosed 'Surveillance Capitalism'

The unflattering term evokes how companies monetize the details of our lives to make billions.

DOJ Charges 2 Russians in 'Evil Corp.' Cybertheft Ring

Officials say the group developed malware used to steal at least $100 million from banks and other financial institutions.