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Facebook and its Irish data regulator gave conflicting signals Thursday about what caused the tech giant to postpone the European launch of its vaunted dating app.
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Chinese tech giant Huawei was hit Thursday with fresh US criminal charges alleging a “decades-long” effort to steal trade secrets from American companies.
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The Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp said Wednesday it now has more than two billion users around the world as it reaffirmed its commitment to strong encryption to protect privacy.
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US and German intelligence services raked in the top secret communications of governments around the world for decades through their hidden control of a top encryption company, Crypto AG, US, German and Swiss media reported Tuesday.
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Continue reading US, German Spies Plundered Global Secrets Via Swiss Encryption Firm: Report
Beijing said Tuesday it “never engages” in cybertheft, following US indictments of four Chinese army members for alleged involvement in the massive 2017 hacking of credit rating agency Equifax.
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Continue reading China Denies U.S. Allegations Over Military ‘Hackers’
Iran repelled a cyberattack on Saturday that disrupted the country’s internet services for an hour, a telecommunications ministry official said.
“At 11:44 (0814 GMT) a distributed denial-of-service attack disrupted the internet services of some mobile … Continue reading Iran Says Foils Cyberattack Targeting Internet Providers
Europe’s physics lab CERN on Wednesday said it had stopped using a Facebook team-chat application because of concerns about handing over data to the US tech giant.
CERN said it had wound up its Facebook Workplace account on January 31 after the US firm… Continue reading CERN Physics Lab Drops Facebook Over Data Concerns
US officials and cyber experts warned Tuesday that the voting debacle in the Democratic caucuses in Iowa underscored the vulnerabilities in the country’s election infrastructure in everything from hacking to trust-eroding conspiracy theories.
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Twitter unveiled a plan Tuesday to curb the spread of manipulated content including “deepfake” videos as part of a move to fight misinformation which could result in violence or other harm.
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Continue reading Twitter Moves to Curb Manipulated Content Including ‘Deepfakes’
The United States on Thursday welcomed the European Union’s new rules on fifth-generation internet but pressed them to go further after the bloc resisted Washington’s pressure to ban China’s Huawei directly.
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Continue reading US Says EU Understands 5G Risks But Pushes on Huawei