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TikTok on Wednesday agreed to pay $92 million to settle claims stemming from a class-action lawsuit alleging the app illegally tracked and shared the personal data of users without their consent. TikTok has agreed to…

The now-patched vulnerability could have allowed attackers to scan a company's internal network and gain access to sensitive data, says Positive Technologies. VMware has fixed a serious flaw in its vCenter Server VMware utility that…

Parts of Brazil's Amazon rainforest are being illegally being sold on Facebook, the BBC has discovered. The protected areas include national forests and land reserved for indigenous peoples. Some of…

A team of developers allegedly working for The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been hacked by another team of hackers and had their malware tools stolen, according to thehackernews.com The victims are said to be one of the most…

Facebook “erred on the side of over-enforcement” in removing links to hundreds of non-media organisations in Australia, Nick Clegg has admitted, in a blogpost defending the social media company’s short-lived news ban there. The former UK…

image copyrightGetty Images A smart city project started by Google's sister firm Sidewalk Labs to track mobility patterns in the US city of Portland has been shelved. Last year, Sidewalk also…

image copyrightGetty Images Raising the price of music streaming services could lead to a rise in piracy, MPs have been told. The music industry has been keen to increase prices for some time,…

image copyrightGetty Images "It's one of the easiest ways to get money to be honest. If you've got a girl and she works and she's into you, why not ask her to send over money? Lawyers are the best…

Last night I got infected with a virus that I had never heard of at first. It was called Ransomware, and I had never heard of it before so I was pretty freaked out. After researching I found out my situation seemed worse than the…

Browsing slowing into a crawl, the inability to stream, constant drops in Wi-Fi Signals are the annoying problems we’re all facing whilst working and learning from home. But here are the top 5 things you can do in 2 minutes to improve and…

Thousands of parents are potentially affected by this vulnerability. Baby monitors are a life saver for many parents around the world. However, the safety and security of baby monitors has recently come into question. Researchers have…

Facebook will restore Australian news pages in the next few days after the government agreed to more amendments to the media bargaining code that makes the social network and Google pay for news. On Thursday Facebook blocked all news on…

A student at Northwestern University is suing the institution for violating an Illinois law on biometric information privacy. The lawsuit, filed in January, accuses the Evanston, Illinois, university of capturing and storing students’…

After an abortive attempt to change its privacy policy led to millions of users signing up for competing services, WhatsApp has said it will try for a second time to roll out the update in mid-May. In an effort to smooth the transition,…

As the digital revolution continues, the amount of data captured on the internet increases. Giant organisations worldwide have started to collect your data whenever and wherever possible for future use. When you shop online, most…

The UK government is “obviously concerned” at the repercussions of Facebook’s shutdown of large numbers of news and public information resources in Australia, Downing Street has said, confirming that the culture secretary will meet the US…

New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments. The…

Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities have been discovered in SHAREit, a popular app with over one billion downloads, that could be abused to leak a user's sensitive data, execute arbitrary code, and possibly lead to remote code…

image copyrightReuters The social media giant Facebook has deleted a news site run by Myanmar's military, a day after two people were killed protesting against the coup. Facebook said the Tatmadaw…

image copyrightEA On paper, Anthem is a game with everything. It's developed by one of the gaming industry's most revered studios, BioWare, and published by one of its biggest companies, Electronic…

image copyrightGetty Images Critics of Facebook say the company's ban on news appearing on its platform in Australia has made it more difficult for people to access reliable sources - and increased the influence of bad and…

image copyrightFocusmate When Subrato Sarker had to start working from home due to the pandemic, he found himself struggling to stay productive while being on his own. Help has come from a host of…

image copyrightGetty TikTok has been accused of breaching users' rights "on a massive scale" by a European consumer group. The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) says the platform "falls foul of…

When my Spotify account was hacked during the current lockdown, I communicated with the unwanted visitor using song and podcast titles. I live alone in Bristol and work from home. One morning, when I hadn't…

image copyrightGetty Images North Korea attempted to steal Covid-19 vaccine technology from US pharmaceutical company Pfizer, according to South Korean intelligence officials. It is currently…

image copyrightGetty Images A tussle over an Indian grocery company has pitted the world’s largest e-commerce business Amazon against India’s largest company Reliance. The companies are at odds…

A little yellow chick is gaining prominence in India as a result of tensions between Twitter and the Indian government. Koo, a new microblogging app, is being used by government departments…

The site claims to be moderated and has exploded in global popularity during the pandemic with millions of visitors a day - particularly in the US, India, Mexico and the UK. It has become a TikTok trend, frequently visited by…

image copyrightACS Edinburgh A celebration of black and LGBT culture has been "hijacked" on Zoom. The attackers shouted racist slurs, chanted homophobic slogans and played pornography during the…

image copyrightGetty Images WhatsApp is pushing ahead with controversial changes to its terms of service, but altering the way it notifies users following a backlash. After its first announcement in…