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Safety and Security
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1.8KTwitter 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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1.3KHunt 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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1.9KLloyds 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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2.5KPrivacy 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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4.9KChatbot 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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5.7KWhy 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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1.9KConsumer 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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3.2KResearchers 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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3.3K7M 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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3.8KGAO: 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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2.2KAlexa 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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1.9KFacebook’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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3.0KCIA 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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4.8KRing 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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3.6KUber 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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4.8KState 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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3.7KApple 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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6.4KCheck 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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7.4KRBI 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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6.5KUS 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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3.0KUK 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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2.6KWhite 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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5.7KAtrium 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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2.3KKaspersky 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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10.4KMicrosoft 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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4.3KApple 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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5.8KAnthem 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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2.5KWhatsApp: 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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2.6KIsrael 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...
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2.2KIntel Finds Three More Flaws In Microprocessors
Semiconductor company Intel disclosed Tuesday (August 14) that it found three more potential flaws in its microprocessors that could enable hackers to...
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2.8KMid-Sized Biz Most Damaged By Cyberattacks
A new report has found that mid-market companies — those with 500 to 999 employees — suffer greater losses when hit with...
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1.6KAutomakers’ Data Ends Up Online For Anyone To See
Automakers trying to keep their trade secrets from unwanted eyes saw those efforts hurt after a security researcher found tens of thousands...
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2.9KReg Tracker: National Tech Privacy, Facial Recognition Rules Loom (Perhaps)
New rules may loom for technology providers pertaining to privacy — on a national level. As reported last week by the Information Technology...
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5.2KMonzo Warned Of Ticketmaster Breach Months Before It Was Announced
One bank says it warned Ticketmaster about a malicious software breach that leaked the personal information of tens of thousands of customers...
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3.5KLiberty CEO: Customers Untouched By Recent Cyberattack
Liberty Holdings’ CEO said its customers have not suffered any financial losses so far after the company was hit with a cyberattack...
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4.4KGoldman Sachs’ Cybersecurity Training Utilizes War Games
Goldman Sachs is using cyber security war games so that its technology staff will better learn how to fight and prevent threats...
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5.2KVerint Systems Invests In Military-Grade Cybersecurity Firm NSO Group
U.S. software company Verint Systems, Inc. is looking to buy NSO Group, an Israeli company that sells military-grade technology, for around $1...
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7.0KWas A Massive Cyberattack Just Prevented?
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is dismantling a “large network of hacked routers and storage devices” that could have enabled a...
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3.8KNetwork Security Firm CUJO Raises More Capital
International expansion is on tap for CUJO, a U.S.-based company whose artificial intelligence-powered software platform enables in-home network security for network operators,...
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4.8KTidal Looks Into ‘Potential Data Breach’
After learning of a potential data breach, Tidal’s CEO Richard Sanders said that the company “immediately” tried to find the source of...
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4.4KTennessee Election Website Went Offline In Cyberattack
In a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack this week, the website of a county election commission in Tennessee went offline during a mayoral...
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2.9KAmazon Quietly Launches Home Security Service Offering
Amazon is going after the home security market in a bigger way, rolling out a home security service offering that includes a consultant...
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7.6KGoogle And Apple Absent From Cybersecurity Tech Accord That Facebook And Microsoft Signed
Technology companies are making the pledge to protect customers from cyberattacks, as well as making sure they don’t help governments advance their...
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6.2KTaskRabbit Takes Website, App Down After Computer Hack
TaskRabbit — the freelancer marketplace owned by IKEA, the Swedish furniture retailer — has been the victim of a hack that prompted...
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3.7KFIDO And W3C Launch Password-Free Browser
The FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have announced the launch of Web Authentication (WebAuthn), a password-free browser that...
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3.6KFormer FTC Head Predicts $1B Or More Fine For Facebook
Facebook’s latest disclosure that its search tools collect data on most of its 2.2 billion users could open up the social media company...
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4.8KPhilippine Central Bank Issues Alert After Cyberattack On Malaysian Bank
The Philippine central bank is warning local financial institutions to be on the lookout for cyberattacks after the Malaysian central bank was...
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3.8KPope Calls On Hackers To Hack For Good
Computer hackers are traveling to the Vatican at the request of Pope Francis, who wants them to participate in a computer programming...
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6.6KGlitch Exposes JPMC Account Data To Other Users
Due to a glitch in JPMorgan Chase’s systems, some customers saw the personal information of other clients on Wednesday (Feb. 21). The...
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8.3KKaspersky Points to Telegram Weak Spot in Crypto Mining
Due to a vulnerability in Telegram’s messaging app, hackers have been able to rack up cryptocurrencies such as ZCash, as stated by...
