Professional criminals holding businesses to ransom -- often with the support of nation-states -- is the key online threat facing the U.K., the country’s cyber security chief will say Monday.

When the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was hacked in 2018, it took a mere six hours. Early this year, an intruder lurked in hundreds of computers related to water systems across the U.S. In Portland, Oregon, burglars installed malicious computers onto a grid providing power to a chunk of the Northwest.

U.S. clean-power giant Invenergy LLC said it found unauthorized activity on some of its systems, while REvil, the group behind the recent cyberattack on meat giant JBS SA, said it was behind the latest hack.

It’s an open secret that many Wall Street denizens have been taking a certain forbidden liberty while working from home: Tapping text messages to colleagues and clients on smartphones untethered to workplace surveillance systems. Now some of them are panicking.

The Big Law salary scale no longer starts below $200,000—just one change from an extraordinary period of competition for young lawyers that is being driven by relentless work demands.

A California nonprofit can proceed with its claim that a state law requiring DNA be taken from those arrested for felony crimes must include automatic destruction of the samples taken from those never convicted, an appellate judge in San Francisco said.