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2.8KMarriott Data Breach Exposed Data Of 5.2M Guests
Marriott International experienced a massive data breach in an “incident” that involved a property system. The hotel firm said in a notice...
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15.3KDHS Postpones REAL ID Enforcement Deadline Until 2021
The Department Of Homeland Security (DHS) is lengthening the enforcement deadline for REAL ID because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a...
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3.7KPrincess Cruises Discloses Possible Data Breach
Princess Cruises disclosed a potential data breach in a notice posted on its website. The travel company said that from April 11...
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4.6KAmazon Covertly Working On Cold Vaccine
Amazon has been secretly working for years to cure the common cold with an initiative called “Project Gesundheit,” according to a report...
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6.3KWorld Health Organization Cautions Against Cash Usage
The World Health Organization (WHO) is advising people to not use paper tender and to use as many cashless options as possible...
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2.3KCongress Closes $8B Deal To Fight COVID-19
Congress reached a deal on Wednesday (March 4) for an $8.3 billion bipartisan emergency funding package to fight the Coronavirus, according to...
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1.4KVP Pence To Meet With Airline Execs On Gathering Data To Fight Coronavirus
Vice President Mike Pence is meeting with airline CEOs and an airline industry trade group on Wednesday (March 5) over Coronavirus concerns...
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1.9KProposed US Law Could Hamper End-To-End Encryption
With a bill that seeks to tackle the distribution of child abuse material, U.S. legislation will reportedly be introduced in the weeks...
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2.6KThe Cost Of Love: FTC Data Shows Over $200M Lost To Romance Scams In 2019
Consumers reported losing $201 million to romance scams last year — an almost 40 percent increase since 2018 per new U.S. Federal...
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1.9KConsumers’ Appetite For Home DNA Testing Wanes Amid Privacy Concerns
The busy business of home DNA facing its first major test, as consumer demand for the products is beginning to dim. The issue...
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3.2KGoogle Quits Cookies As Data Privacy Regs Show Fangs
Looks like the digital advertising and marketing sectors are in for a reckoning. How that will affect merchants’ online promotional activity hangs...
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3.4KFed Study: Wholesale Payments Vulnerable In Bank Cyberattack
A pre-mortem analysis sounds … ominous. Mortem, after all, is Latin for “dead.” And the term is attached to a report from the...
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2.1KGoogle Chrome To Eliminate Third-Party Cookies In Privacy Push
After bans brought about by Microsoft, Mozilla and Apple, Google also is seeking to make so-called third-party cookies “obsolete.” Cross-website cookies have...
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8.8KTesla Invites Hackers To Compete For $1M In Cash And Prizes
To challenge hackers to find flaws in its vehicles, Tesla, the electric automaker, is returning to the Pwn2Own hacking competition run by...
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2.4KCyberexperts Flag Danger Of Deepfakes At House Hearing
Researchers have reported concerns about the timely importance of addressing deep fakes and other types of digital deception amid the backdrop of...
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3.9KChinese Hacking Attacks Take Down 2FA
In a recent series of attacks, security researchers claim they have found indications that a hacking group linked to the Chinese government...
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2.5KTikTok CEO Headed To Washington To Discuss App Security Concerns
As suspicions surrounding the app’s ties to China continue to increase, TikTok chief Alex Zhu will meet with legislators in Washington, D.C....
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7.2KPCI Issues New Requirements For Tap-And-Go Payments
The PCI Security Standards Council has issued a new data security standard that will allow vendors to provide merchants with tap-and-go payment...
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3.4KEU Warns Of Legal Risks With 5G Supplier Contracts
Ahead of a meeting of European ministers, a European Union (EU) document noted that governments in the bloc should mull the broader...
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4.2KRansomware Attack Cripples Some Billtrust Systems
As it recovers from a ransomware attack that started last week, business-to-business payments provider Billtrust is in its last stages of putting...
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3.4KSecurity Research Firm Finds Vulnerability In Vatican’s ‘eRosary’
A major security flaw has been discovered in the Vatican’s eRosary smart device. Last week, the Vatican announced the launch of its...
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2.7KTwitter May Have Mistakenly Used Users’ Data For Advertising
Twitter has revealed that some user data might have been used for advertising purposes. “We recently discovered that when you provided an...
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2.2KHunt Continues For Missing Ex-Danske Bank Exec
Aivar Rehe, the 56-year-old former executive of Danske Bank who was in charge during a 200 billion euro money laundering operation that...
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2.5KLloyds To Launch Support Team To Fight Financial Abuse
British financial institution Lloyds Bank is putting together a team to fight domestic financial abuse by offering help to victims, according to...
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3.5KPrivacy Concerns Spark Fresh Moves In Digital World
The push to offer more online privacy to increasingly concerned consumers continues. This time, it’s a move from Google, but it’s unclear...
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5.9KChatbot Company Sued By Delta Over Data Breach
Delta Airlines Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a firm that powered a chatbot on its website. The lawsuit alleges that [24]7.ai...
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6.1KWhy Trust Is The Super Glue To Making Cross-Border Payments Work
Trust is important for all of payment, commerce and financial services – it is more or less the glue that holds transactions...
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2.4KConsumer Watchdog Warns Against Elder Financial Abuse
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is urging financial institutions to report any suspicions they may have about financial exploitation of elderly...
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4.4KResearchers Find Over 2 Billion Records Exposed In Orvibo Data Breach
In a reported leak of billions of user records in a smart home data breach, researchers have found that a database that...
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4.1K7M Venmo Transactions Scraped To Warn Users
A computer science student scraped seven million Venmo transactions to warn users that their public activity can still be stolen. Dan Salmon...
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4.2KGAO: Post-Equifax, Agencies Must Tighten Online ID Proofing
After the massive Equifax data breach, a federal watchdog is warning the government against relying on credit agencies to verify the identifies...
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2.6KAlexa Users Can Now Delete Voice Recordings
Amazon announced on Wednesday (May 29) an easier way for users to delete voice recordings on all Alexa-enabled devices, responding to the...
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2.3KFacebook’s Sandberg Says No To Breakup
Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has pushed back against the idea that Facebook is too big and should be broken up,...
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3.4KCIA Takes To Instagram
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is getting ready to launch its own Instagram account. Director Gina Haspel revealed the news last week...
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5.4KRing Patches Doorbell Vulnerability That Allowed Eavesdropping
Researchers discovered a vulnerability in the Ring doorbell that could allow hackers to send fake images into the video feed, or even eavesdrop on...
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4.1KUber Fixes Bug That Reveals Client Secrets
After becoming aware of a bug on its back-end systems, Uber repaired a vulnerability that provided access to secret developer tokens. A...
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5.0KState Bank Of India Exposes Financial Data Of Millions
State Bank of India, India’s biggest bank, was forced to patch a server that was unsecured, providing anyone with access to customers’...
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4.0KApple CEO Wants FTC To Let Consumers Control Their Data
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive who has emerged as a powerful privacy advocate, has called on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)...
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7.0KCheck Point Finds Flaws In Fortnite’s Single Sign-On System
Through a series of vulnerabilities in the technology of the Fortnite game, an attacker could have been able to gain control of...
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8.5KRBI Releases Guidelines For Electronic Card Payments
The Reserve Bank of India has released guidelines for what it calls the “tokenization” of debit and credit card transactions, according to...
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6.7KUS Senators Propose New Office To Combat Tech Theft
To contend with technology threats from China, two U.S. senators brought forward a bill that would make an office in the White...
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3.1KUK Trials Facial Recognition Tech During The Holidays
Police in the United Kingdom are planning to use facial recognition over the holidays in highly-populated areas to find criminals, according to...
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2.8KWhite House Trials Facial Recognition
The Department of Homeland Security has published a report detailing how the U.S. Secret Service plans to test the use of facial...
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6.0KAtrium Health Patient Database Breached
Atrium Health revealed that the data of about 2.65 million patients may have been compromised in a breach at its third-party provider...
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2.5KKaspersky Opens ‘Transparency Center’ In Switzerland
Kaspersky Lab has announced the opening of its first Transparency Center, located in Zurich Switzerland. The Transparency Center will allow authorized partners...
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10.9KMicrosoft CEO: Data Privacy Is A ‘Human Right’
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella recently called data privacy a “human right,” urging tech companies to do all they could to protect users...
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4.6KApple CEO Calls On The US To Embrace EU-Type Privacy Laws
Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, is calling on the government in the U.S. to embrace privacy laws that are similar...
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6.1KAnthem Data Breach Garners $16M Fine
The nation’s second-largest health insurer will pay the government a record $16 million due to a data breach and cyberattack that exposed...
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2.6KWhatsApp: Bug That Enabled Hackers To Take Over Has Been Fixed
WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Facebook, said on Wednesday (Oct. 10) that the bug that enabled hackers to take over apps...
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2.9KIsrael Invests $24M In Cybersecurity Initiatives
The Israeli government is investing 90 million shekels ($24 million) to boost the country’s cybersecurity industry. The three-year program will enable companies...
