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French President Emmanuel Macron says France is not excluding Chinese telecom giant Huawei from its upcoming 5G telecommunication networks but favors European providers for security reasons.
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North Korean hackers stole millions of dollars from virtual currency accounts and then laundered the stolen funds in hopes of making the crime untraceable, according to a Justice Department civil forfeiture complaint filed Thursday.
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Google’s own engineers were troubled by the way the company secretly tracked the movements of people who didn’t want to be followed until a 2018 Associated Press investigation uncovered the shadowy surveillance, according to unsealed documents in a con… Continue reading Google Location-Tracking Tactics Troubled Its Own Engineers
Facebook is pushing back on new Apple privacy rules for its mobile devices — and putting app developers in the middle.
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Continue reading Facebook: Apple Privacy Changes Will Muck Up Online Ads
Palantir Technologies Inc., a data-mining company with deep ties to U.S. intelligence and military agencies, has shed a good deal of its trademark secrecy about its business in filing for a Wall Street stock offering.
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Continue reading Secretive Palantir Lifts Veil Before Wall Street Stock Sale
A man authorities say participated in a scam to steal victims’ banking information by offering phony computer tech support services has pleaded guilty, federal prosecutors say.
Abrar Anjum, 34, a citizen of India, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to… Continue reading Participant in Phony Tech Support Scheme Pleads Guilty
The U.S. military’s top cyber official is defending the government’s shift toward a more aggressive strategy in cyberspace, saying the mission has evolved over the last decade from “a reactive and defensive posture” to keep pace with sophisticated thre… Continue reading Military’s Top Cyber Official Defends More Aggressive Stance
Attorney General William Barr said he would be “vehemently opposed” to any attempt to pardon former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, after the president suggested he might consider it.
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European Union privacy regulators are wrangling over the penalty Ireland’s data privacy watchdog was set to issue Twitter for a data breach, pushing back the case’s long awaited conclusion under the bloc’s tough new data privacy rules.
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Carnival Corp. says it was the victim of a ransomware attack that likely got some personal information about the cruise company’s guests and employees.
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Continue reading Carnival Corp. Hacked; Guest and Worker Information Accessed