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Microsoft Exposes Russian Cyberattacks on Phones, Printers, Video Decoders

The Russian hacking group known for stealing sensitive emails from the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 presidential election season has been cracking into printers, phones and video decoders to gain access to corporate networks, the Microsoft Security Response Center Team reported on Monday ...

Cloudflare Cuts Service to ‘Cesspool of Hate’

Cloudflare, an Internet infrastructure and website security company, on Monday announced that it was cutting service to 8chan, an online forum it called a "cesspool of hate." ...

Capital One Discloses Massive Data Breach, Hacker Arrested

Capital One Financial Corporation on Monday announced a data breach affecting some 100 million people in the United States and another 6 million in Canada. The FBI arrested the alleged perpetrator of the breach in Seattle ...

Apple to Jump on 5G Bandwagon in 2020

Apple's 2019 crop of iPhones haven't been released yet but there's already talk about its 2020 plans, largely because that will be the first year the company's mobile lineup will support 5G ...

Bug in Facebook Messaging App Exposes Kids to Strangers

A flaw in a Facebook app designed for children under 13 years old allows kids to chat online with people unapproved by their parents ...

Equifax Data Breach Settlement No Wrist Slap

The United States Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced that Equifax has agreed to pay a minimum of US$575 million as part of a global settlement of claims against it arising from a 2017 data breach that affected 147 million Americans ...

Mnuchin Sounds Alarm Over Facebook’s Money-Minting Plan

The U.S. Treasury Department has "very serious concerns" about Facebook's new Libra cryptocurrency, according to Secretary Steve Mnuchin ...

Code Cracker Turing to Be on 50-Quid Notes

Alan Turing, the British mathematician known for his World War II code-breaking exploits and for a test to distinguish between human and machine intelligence, will be on 50-pound notes in the UK by the end of 2021 ...

Zoom Flaw Turns Mac Cam into Spy Cam

A security researcher has found a flaw in the popular video conferencing app Zoom that could be used to turn on the camera on a Macintosh computer without a user's permission ...

FBI, ICE Turn Drivers’ Licenses Into Facial Recognition Gold

State motor vehicle departments have become a rich source of facial recognition data for and FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ...

Chinese Hackers Linked to Global Attacks on Telcos

Security researchers on Monday reported that Chinese hackers are the likely perpetrators of a series of cyberattacks against telecommunications companies around the world ...

Proposed Law Would Force Big Tech to Reveal Value of Consumer Data

A Democrat and a Republican on Monday filed a U.S. Senate bill to require companies to report to financial regulators and to the public what consumer data they collect and how they leverage it for profit ...

In Zuck We Trust: Facebook to Launch Own Cryptocurrency

Facebook's plans to mint its own digital coin next year will test the company's consumer credibility. After being savaged for months for its cavalier attitude toward users' privacy, the social network will be asking those same users to trust its new cryptocurrency ...

Instagram Targets Account Hijacking

Account hijacking has become a nettlesome problem at Instagram so it has decided to do something about it. The social media company on Monday said it has begun testing a simpler method for users to reclaim their compromised accounts ...

News Industry Ad Study Knocked as ‘Tripe’

A study that estimates Google last year raked in US$4.7 billion from news content has drawn widespread criticism. ...

Xbox Gamers Will Give a Damn About This ‘Scarlett’

Microsoft whetted the appetite of power-hungry Xbox gamers at its E3 preview in Los Angeles on Sunday, with new details about its next-generation gaming console code-named "Project Scarlett." ...

Apple Highlights User Experience in New OS Lineup

Apple dangled the next versions of iOS, macOS and watchOS before developers' eyes during Monday's keynote event at its World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, California ...

Apple Spotlights Privacy, Big Iron at WWDC

Privacy, a new muscular Mac Pro workstation, and the debut of iPadOS were topline items Monday at Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Jose, California ...

Apple’s New iPod Gets in Touch With Gamers

Apple on Tuesday refreshed its iPod touch line of media players with a faster processor, greater storage capacity and improved communications features ...

US Post Office to Test-Drive Autonomous Trucks

The U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday announced a pilot project using self-driving trucks. It will conduct the two-week experiment in collaboration with TuSimple, an autonomous driving technology company based in San Diego ...

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