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Cybercops Scrub Botnet Software From Millions of Computers

The notorious Emotet botnet software began uninstalling itself from some one million computers Sunday ...

Slick New iMac, Muscular iPad Pro Headline Apple Event

Apple introduced a new version of its iMac desktop and a powerful upgrade of its iPad Pro tablet at an online event Tuesday. Both new products are based on Apple's new M1 chip ...

DuckDuckGo Unwraps Google FLoC Blocker

DuckDuckGo has announced an add-on to the Chrome browser that blocks Google's new scheme to provide marketers with information for targeting advertising at Internet users ...

DNS Flaws Expose Millions of IoT Devices to Hacker Threats

A set of flaws in a widely used network communication protocol that could affect millions of devices was revealed Monday by security researchers ...

Microsoft Nabs Nuance for $19.7B to Bolster Cloud for Healthcare

Microsoft on Monday announced it is purchasing Nuance Communications, a natural language to computer processing company, in a deal valued at $19.7 billion ...

Fraud Awareness Kit Puts Businesses on Notice: It’s Tax Scam Season

Businesses fearful their workers may be targeted by fraudsters will want to take a look at the free Tax Scam Awareness Kit offered by Proofpoint, a data protection company in Sunnyvale, Calif ...

Hacker Recycles Data on Half a Billion Facebook Users

A rich cache of data on some 533 million Facebook users was posted to a hacker forum over the weekend and is available to download for practically free. The information is from a data breach that occurred in 2019, but hasn't been widely available until now ...

Consumer Password Hassles Linked to Lost Revenue

Online businesses are losing potential customers and substantial amounts of revenue because they're dependent on traditional password systems and outdated customer authentication models, says a report released Tuesday by an access and identity management company ...

Think Tank Calls for US Industrial Policy to Combat China’s Quest for Tech Dominance

If the United States wants to out-compete China in key technology markets, Congress and the Biden Administration must act now, maintained a Washington, D.C. think tank in a report released Monday ...

Facebook’s Nervy Wrist Controller for AR Glasses and Much More

Creating a smooth functioning interface for smart glasses that allows its wearers to operate in an augmented reality world has proven to be a challenging task, but Facebook believes it may have a solution on the human wrist ...

Tech Think Tank Calls for $40B Reverse Auction to Boost Rural Broadband

A Big Bang of cash is needed to bring rural Americans into the Information Age, according to a report released Monday by a Washington, D.C. think tank ...

New Social Platform Seeks to Swell Ranks With Talk in Displaced Time

A new social media platform based on voice messaging launched Monday ...

New Threat Report Finds Email Prime Vehicle for Malware

Malicious online actors used email as their prime vehicle for delivering malware to their victims in the last quarter of 2020, HP and Bromium reported Tuesday ...

Microsoft Confident Exchange Hack Is State-Sponsored Operation

Microsoft on Monday reported that multiple malicious actors were taking advantage of vulnerabilities in the company's Exchange software last week to attack systems at organizations that have failed to patch the flaws ...

AI Vision System Hoodwinked by Pen and Paper

Skeptics of giving computers control over high-risk activities like driving cars were given some ammunition last week when researchers at OpenAI discovered their two-month-old machine vision system could be tricked with a pen and paper into misidentifying objects ...

Commission Issues Blueprint to Boost AI Prowess in US

A road map for continued U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence was revealed Monday in a 756-page report released by a national commission ...

AI App Puts New Life in Old Photos

Created with Deep Nostalgia™ | Credit: John P. Mello Jr. To create Deep Nostalgia, MyHeritage teamed up with D-ID, an Israeli company focused on deep learning and synthetic media.

Successful Phishers Make Slim Gains in 2020

Despite an environment conducive to phishing scams, malicious actors achieved only a marginal increase in success in 2020, according to a report from cybersecurity company Proofpoint ...

Silver Sparrow Malware Hatched on 30,000 Macs

Nearly 30,000 Macs in 153 countries have been infected with a new malware strain that security researchers are calling Silver Sparrow ...

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Researchers Repurpose Drugs to Fight COVID in Elderly

Researchers have discovered a way to identify existing drugs that can be potentially repurposed to fight COVID-19 in the elderly ...

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