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US DOJ unseals charges against malware money laundering ring

Microsoft launches the Zero Trust Deployment Center

Hack disrupts Barnes & Noble brick and mortar

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Twitter hack sparks a call for monitoring social media platforms

Zoom prepares to roll out end-to-end encryption

Businesses are decreasing average malware dwell time

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Security experts warn of Amazon Prime Day scams

Office 365 remains a favorite for cyberattack persistence

Homomorphic encryption finally finds the spotlight

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Five Eyes alliance call for encryption backdoors (again)

Trickbot isn't quite done yet

Chinese facial recognition data leaks are rampant

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Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show

Tyler Technologies pays ransomware gang for decryption key

U.K. businesses suffered a cyberattack every 45 sec. during Spring lockdown

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UK issues a report on Huawei 5G rollback

Facebook will stop running political ads after the US election

US seizes domains tied to Iranian misinformation campaign

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Singapore introduces cybersecurity rating for 'smart' devices Watch out for Emotet, warns DHS Big takedowns don't stop Dark Web markets, says Europol

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Paying ransomware ransom is now illegal, according to the Treasury Department

Cisco ordered to pay $1.9 billion for security patent infringement

Covid tracking in Microsoft Excel loses 16,000 test results in England

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Ransomware disrupts COVID-19 vaccine trials

SEC sues John McAfee over cryptocurrency promotion

Firmware bootkit spotted in the wild

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Covid tracking apps from a Google-Apple partnership gaining traction in the U.S.

FBI works more closely with spy agencies to hunt foreign hackers

Phishing-with-worms campaign is declared a game-changer in password theft, account takeovers

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Huawei failed to address network security flaws

US Treasury Department warns about fines for ransomware payments

H&M fined for GDPR violations

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Facebook faces down QAnon, bogus election ads, and privacy on the Gram

Who took down 911 in 14 states on Monday?

Controversial data company Palantir's stock is up following Wall Street debut

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French shipping giant hit with ransomware attack

Ransomware operators release personal information on Las Vegas students

Android 12 will play nice with third-party apps stores

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TikTok's latest court win means videos still available - for now

Universal Health Services hospitals hit country-wide by Ryuk ransomware

Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 source code leaked online

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China's biggest chip maker hit by US sanctions

Elon Musk unhappy over Microsoft's exclusive licensing of OpenAI

Google removes 17 Android apps doing WAP billing fraud from the Play Store

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DHS acknowledges leak of facial recognition images

Judge rules the TikTok ban be delayed or defended

Local government email systems are vulnerable to cyberattacks

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Public-sector mega-vendor Tyler admits it was hacked

ByteDance asks courts to block Trump order against TikTok

Shopify says insiders to blame for stealing customer data

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Maze ransomware adopts Ragnar Locker virtual machine approach

Email addresses and passwords allegedly from NIH, WHO, and Gates Foundation dumped online

Russian hackers use fake NATO training documents to breach government networks

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CISA issues emergency directive to roll out a Windows Server patch

93% of organizations suffer data breaches through outbound email

Facebook threatens withdrawal from EU

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Trump approves Oracle's TikTok deal and delays app store ban

ByteDance says it's not aware of $5 billion education fund in TikTok deal

California judge halts Trump's WeChat ban

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Oracle's bid calls for access to TikTok's source code

Patient dies in the wake of a ransomware attack

Backdoors and bugs discovered in HiSilicon video encoders

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DOJ charges five Chinese citizens with global hacking campaign Two Russians phished $17 million in cryptocurrency, DOJ says

Bluetooth flaw BLESA leaves billions of devices open to hackers

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Senator calls for US to reject Oracle's TikTok deal

MFA bypass bugs opened Microsoft 365 to attack

Ex-Facebook employee reveals extent of bot manipulation intended for political gain

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ByteDance chooses Oracle's bid to become TikTok's trusted technology partner

Thousands of Magento stores compromised in a skimming campaign

CISA warns Chinese state hackers are targeting enterprise infrastructure

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SoftBank close to a deal to sell Arm to Nvidia, creating a powerhouse

Zoom now offers two-factor authentication

China may kill TikTok's US operations rather than see them sold

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Portland passes bans on facial recognition technology.

Bluetooth SIG publishes details on Blurtooth vulnerability.

Microsoft detects attempted cyberattacks against US presidential campaigns.

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China launches initiative to set global data-security rules

Google releases new development platform that includes no-code tools and serverless computing

Intel's supercomputer faces further delay

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Visa discovers new skimming malware.

The US issues a space policy directive on cybersecurity.

Netwalker ransomware hits Argentina's immigration systems.

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Facebook formally codifies policy on third-party vulnerabilities.

Apple delays changes to device ID collection.

Geofence warrants strike out in federal court.

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U.S. spying exposed by Snowden was illegal, court rules

DHS starts countdown clock on vulnerability disclosure policies

Canadian police more reliant than ever on predictive computing

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Facebook threatens to block sharing of news stories in Australia

Maximum lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates is now 398 days

Elections offices across the U.S. using faulty electronic technology

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Apple accidentally notarized malware on macOS

Security researchers detail a Netwalker play-by-play

Mozilla find out "Why We Still Can't Browse in Peace"

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China's new salvo in TikTok war means restrictions on AI technology exports

Slack fixes 'critical' vulnerability that left desktop app users open to attack

Cisco engineer resigns then destroys WebEx accounts and virtual machines

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You can teach a Qbot new tricks

Researchers expose unsecure printers

The FBI releases details about ransomware scheme at Tesla

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Facebook warns Apple privacy changes will decimate ads Feds' stern warning for banks: Watch out for BeagleBoyz Feds put the kibosh on Russian's million-dollar malware scheme

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Epic judge will protect Unreal Engine — but not Fortnite

US military researchers may have found a more productive vulnerability discovery process

Beijing's electronic dragnet closes on Hong Kong

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Application Guard for Office is now in public preview

The WeChat executive order also faces a lawsuit

It's like GitHub, but for China

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TikTok plans to sue Trump administration over U.S. ban

Former Uber security chief faces criminal charges for hiding 2016 breach

Major wave of vishing attacks targets teleworkers

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Former Uber security chief charged with paying hush money to conceal breach Google fixes severe Gmail bug only after researcher goes public Pandemic work-from-home empowers voice phishers

Guardicore Labs discovers a previously unknown botnet

CISA releases details on a new North Korean trojan

Facebook enforces a ban on groups that discuss "potential violence"

Oracle enters race to buy TikTok's US operations

Jack Daniel's hit with ransomware

200,000 Healthcare records exposed through GitHub credentials leak

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Trend Micro Finds Mac Malware in Xcode Projects

Chrome To Warn Of Insecure Forms

Security Breach Numbers Decrease, But Severity Increases in 2020

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President Trump creates 90-day deadline for ByteDance to divest from U.S. TikTok business

Will the US be safer with a reduction in the reliance of Chinese manufacturing?

A database designed to prevent harmful speech from going viral

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