Privacy and Security
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North Korean IT Workers Are Stealing Data, Demanding Ransoms "No longer are they just after a steady paycheck, they are looking for higher sums, more quickly." -
Dronemaker Suing Defense Dept. After Being Labeled as ‘Chinese Military Company’ The world’s largest drone maker is suing the US Department of Defense, who consider the firm's tech a security risk. -
US Government Recovered $4 Billion Worth of Fraud With AI The agency has been using machine learning to comb through mountains of data in search of patterns that point to fraud. -
Ransomware Attacks Tripled for Microsoft Customers Last Year Microsoft customers were besieged by ransom-attacks with the company reporting that they nearly tripled year-on-year. -
Government to Punish Companies That Make It Hard to Cancel Subscriptions The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has adopted a 'click to cancel' rule for cancellations. -
How to Protect Yourself From New Gmail AI Hack As scammers deploy AI to obtain private information from Gmail users, here are the steps you should take to stay safe. -
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Apple Accused of Employee Surveillance on Slack Apple is accused of monitoring employee’s interactions on Slack and putting unlawful restrictions on conversations. -
Potentially Millions Worldwide Impacted by MoneyGram Breach MoneyGram is the latest company to have been affected by a data breach, with potentially 150 million customers impacted. -
Comcast Data Breach: How to Know if You’ve Been Targeted Comcast has suffered another data breach, with hundreds of thousands of customers affected. -
US Government and Big Tech Team Up to Thwart Russian Spies US Government and Microsoft seize over 100 web domains as part of a crackdown on Russian espionage ahead of the US election. -
Reddit Moderators Rebel Against a New Anti-Protest Policy Moderators can no longer turn subreddits private at will, and they're not happy about the change.