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Beijing has ordered all government offices and public institutions to remove foreign computer equipment and software within three years, in a potential blow to the likes of HP, Dell and Microsoft. The directive is the first publicly known…

Two of the world's larger car makers were the victims of a sophisticated (but still not very successful) hacking campaign. Bayerricscher Rundfunk has learned that intruders from the hacking group OceanLotus slipped into the…

This is the the last of three posts on the course I regularly teach, CS 330, Organization of Programming Languages. The first two posts covered programming language styles and mathematical concepts. This post covers the last 1/4 of the…

Forbes and Business Insider are both well-known news sites. So is forbesbusinessinsider.com a new spin-off? No. It has nothing to do with either Forbes or Business Insider. In fact, it's a site that copies and pastes entire articles from…

Parents at a public school district in Maryland have won a major victory for student privacy: tech companies that work with the school district now have to purge the data they have collected on students once a year. Experts say…

Officials of Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, say hard disk drives with taxpayers' personal information were auctioned online. An employee of an outside contractor is suspected of selling the disks. Prefectural officials say there were…

Noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has a new research note predicting Apple’s next two years of iPhones, and there’s a wild new detail: Apple’s 2021 flagship iPhone will reportedly kill off the Lightning port, but USB-C fans (like myself)…

TikTok, a social network video app with more than 1 billion downloads globally, admitted Tuesday to a set of policies that had suppressed the reach of content created by users assumed to be “vulnerable to cyberbullying.” As examples of…

Written by Paul Jarvis Published on: December 5th, 2019 Google analytics is present on at least 70% of all websites on the internet. So, not only does Google know what most of the world is searching for through it’s search engine,…

A company which helps big businesses uncover security holes in their platforms has itself been hacked. HackerOne, which pays hackers who find bugs in products, services and websites for the likes of Uber and Goldman Sachs, was breached by…

Facebook has launched a tool that will enable members to transfer photos and videos they have uploaded to the platform to Google Photos. The service would initially roll out in Ireland and then, in 2020, across the world, Facebook said.…

A hacker was able to access private customer reports on HackerOne after one of the platform’s security analysts inadvertently shared a session cookie. The incident occurred last week during an online exchange about a bug bounty…

Kashmiris enduring their region's ongoing internet blackout are losing their WhatsApp accounts because of the platform's policy on inactive accounts. A Kashmir girl rides her bike past Indian security personnel standing…

What is Keybase? Keybase (keybase.io) is a platform designed to help users send and receive encrypted communications as well as securely store files and collaborate with others in “teams”. Keybase also allows users to attest to…

As technology begins to advance, so are hackers getting smarter. More and more technologies are being produced daily to protect against hacking, but every day, we hear some news about the cyber defense of some companies being breached. Big…

Nowadays there are lots of hackers that strive to access and steal your data. That’s why digital privacy is more important than ever. It’s very important to understand where and how your personal data is used. While the GDPR is there to…

During the Christmas season people are constantly trying to find gift ideas and even buy gifts online. The challenge that comes from all of this, is to figure out where to buy items from, and at what price. Christmas is a time for scams…

A data breach can appear out of nowhere, so it’s important to find ways to prevent these problems the best way that you can. As an SME owner, it’s crucial to know what best practices you can set in motion so you can obtain the best results…

You’ve spent so much time planning your podcast and learning the ins and outs of recording, podcastequipment, and promoting podcasts. Now, you’re faced with a big question: How often should you release your podcast?…

For Serverless users, preInvent and re:Invent has been like Christmas. We're getting a ton of new tools to help build Serverless applications, from Lambda Destinations to async invocations, to the EventBridge schema registry, to a ton of…

A brute-force hack in October in which a student gained access to the personal data of other students attending a public school district in Maryland was more extensive than originally thought, the district has announced. Montgomery County…

A massive database storing tens of millions of SMS text messages, most of which were sent by businesses to potential customers, has been found online. The database is run by TrueDialog, a business SMS provider for businesses and higher…

Retailers are poised for bumper Cyber Monday sales in the US after a record-breaking Black Friday.

The tech world is probably sitting on the edge of a charger revolution, and most of us just haven’t realized it yet. No, I’m not talking about USB-C (sadly); I’m talking about GaN (gallium nitride) chargers, a material that’s started to…

Three months ago, I quit my job at Google to start my own company. This past week, I decided that I wanted to get a feel for how much it would cost to acquire new users for our app through paid channels. Having been a Googler for…

NordVPN, a company reeling from careless security practices revealed as part of a security breach (one that they covered up for 6 months until they were finally outed for it), had promised to do better. From the…

A website selling hacking tools that let attackers take over victims' computers has been closed down after an international investigation. The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) said 14,500 people had bought spying tools from the Imminent…

Also in 2018, BlueMail released a feature called Share Email, which allows people to communicate through public addresses without revealing private email addresses. For example, if you share your email address through this feature and post…

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