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Russian-made FaceApp, which allows users to see how they will look as they age, found itself in the eye of a political storm in the US Wednesday, with one senator urging an FBI investigation into its "national security and privacy risks".
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A 20-year-old Bulgarian cybercrime specialist has been arrested over a hack and leak of a trove of taxpayer data, which authorities had initially suspected was a Russia-linked cyberattack.
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Bulgaria ordered Tuesday a probe into the leak of a trove of taxpayer data in a Russia-linked cyberattack that was disclosed on the same day the former Soviet satellite nation moved to buy US-made F-16 jet fighters.
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Ransomware has been a thorny cybersecurity issue for several years, and experts debate weather. organizations should pay or not pay ransomware demands.
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Chinese telecoms giant Huawei is reportedly planning to make major job cuts at its US-based research and development arm, Futurewei.
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US regulators have reportedly approved a $5 billion penalty to be levied on Facebook to settle a probe into the social network's privacy and data protection lapses.
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Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange BITPoint said it had halted all services after losing cryptocurrency worth more than $32 million in the latest apparent hack involving virtual money.
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The UK's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) will hold an unprecedented exhibition at London's Science Museum, taking visitors through 100 years of secret conversations and eavesdropping.
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Hong Kong police have arrested eight people for stealing and disclosing personal information of officers online, as the city grapples with the aftermath of unprecedented anti-government protests that saw its parliament ransacked.
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China's telecoms giant Huawei remains barred from the development of 5G wireless networks in the United States.
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The US trade war truce with China which could ease sanctions on Huawei has prompted a backlash from lawmakers over national security concerns amid confusion over how the deal may impact the Chinese tech giant.
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As the United States and China pursue trade talks, there is a "good chance" that more US firms will be granted licenses to sell products to controversial Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, White House economic advisor Larry Kudlow said.
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President Donald Trump said on Saturday that US companies could sell equipment to Chinese telecom giant Huawei, indicating a potentially softer position on a key sticking point in the US-China trade war.
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Italy's data protection watchdog slammed Facebook with a fine of one million euros ($1.1 million) for violating privacy laws over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
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A cyber attack on Iranian missile systems, claimed by the US last week, would have had to exploit a flaw in the heavily-guarded network, experts say.
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A French consumer rights group said Wednesday that it has launched a class action lawsuit against US tech giant Google for violating the EU's strict data privacy laws.
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A claim by US officials that a retaliatory cyber attack ordered by the White House crippled Iranian missile launching systems will remain almost impossible to substantiate, experts say.
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Instagram doesn't snoop on private conversations as part of its advertising targeting strategy, the head of the popular social media site said in an interview Tuesday.
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The United States launched cyber attacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network this week after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone, US media reported on Saturday.
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Canada's Desjardins credit union announced Thursday that the personal banking information of 2.9 million customers had been stolen by an employee and distributed to outside parties.
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French prosecutors ordered infamous French-Israeli hacker Ulcan to stand trial over a telephone prank targeting the father of a French journalist who died soon after of a heart attack.
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The head of London's Serpentine Galleries, Yana Peel, resigned following a newspaper report about her links to controversial Israeli spyware firm NSO Group.
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The Kremlin on Tuesday said Moscow had been the victim of US cyberattacks "for years" following a New York Times report that Washington is stepping up digital incursions into Russia's power grid.
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Facebook has curbed access to a controversial feature allowing searches of the vast content within the social network -- a tool which raised privacy concerns but was also used for research and investigative journalism.
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Hong Kong's tech-savvy protesters are going digitally dark as they try to avoid surveillance and potential future prosecutions.
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