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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
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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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Cisco ordered to pay $1.9 billion for security patent infringement
Covid tracking in Microsoft Excel loses 16,000 test re…
Ransomware disrupts COVID-19 vaccine trials
SEC sues John McAfee over cryptocurrency promotion
Firmware bootkit spotted in the wild
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Detectify is where security en…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-chang…
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 document…
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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