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Norwegian's data privacy watchdog said Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021 that it notified the company of its draft decision to issue a fine for 100 million Norwegian krone, equal to 10% of its annual global revenue.
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Google says it’s making progress on plans to revamp Chrome user tracking technology aimed at improving privacy even as it faces challenges from regulators and officials.
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Georgetown County in South Carolina says hackers broke into its computer network over the weekend causing most of the county’s electronic systems, including emails, to be impacted.
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The elite Russian hackers who gained access to computer systems of federal agencies last year didn’t bother trying to break one by one into the networks of each department.
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Intel blamed an internal error for a data leak that prompted it to release a quarterly earnings report early.
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The European Union’s drug regulator said that COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from its servers by hackers have been not only leaked to the web, but “manipulated.”
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Any EU country can take legal action against companies like Facebook over cross-border violations of data privacy rules, not just the main regulator in charge of the company.
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William Evanina, director of the U.S. National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said he expected to see a “growth” in the number of victims linked to the SolarWinds hack.
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A watchdog agency for the U.S. Census Bureau says that proper information-technology security safeguards weren’t in place leading up to the start of the 2020 census.
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Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin, who stole data from U.S. companies and information about over 100 million U.S. consumers, was sentenced to 12 years in prison
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The Justice Department said that 3% of its Microsoft Office 365 email accounts were potentially affected under the massive breach of government networks that U.S. officials have linked to Russia.
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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese apps, including Alipay and WeChat Pay.
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Top national security agencies said Russia was likely responsible for the massive "SolarWinds" hack of U.S. government departments and corporations, rejecting President Donald Trump’s claim that China might be to blame.
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The CIA has launched a new website to find top-tier candidates who will bring a broader range of life experiences.
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A U.S.-funded center in Cyprus will help train officials from countries in the eastern Mediterranean region and the Middle East on the latest techniques in border, customs, maritime and cyber security.
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A British judge has rejected the United States’ request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges, saying he was likely to kill himself if held under harsh U.S. prison conditions.
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The Christmas Day bombing in downtown Nashville led to phone and data service outages and disruptions over hundreds of miles in the southern U.S., raising new concerns about the vulnerability of U.S. communications.
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A federal judge signed off on a deal that will allow Ticketmaster to pay a $10 million fine to escape prosecution over criminal charges accusing the company of hacking into the computer system of rival Songkick.
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The University of Vermont Health Network confirmed that a cyberattack that crippled its computer systems in October was ransomware.
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The Pentagon is proposing to end an arrangement in which a single military officer leads U.S. Cyber Command and the NSA, a move that a leading Democrat said Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020, makes him “profoundly concerned” amid a large-scale cyberattack on U.S. government computer systems.
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Contradicting his secretary of state and other top officials, President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested without evidence that China — not Russia — may be behind the cyberattack against the United States and tried to minimized its impact.
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Experts say it’s going to take months to kick elite hackers widely believed to be Russian out of U.S. government networks.
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All fingers are pointing to Russia as the source of the worst-ever hack of U.S. government agencies. But President Donald Trump, long wary of blaming Moscow for cyberattacks, has been silent.
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Before this week, few people were aware of SolarWinds, but the revelation that it has been targeted by elite cyber spies has put many of its customers on high alert, and it’s raising questions about why its biggest investors sold off stock.
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The European Union unveiled plans to revamp the 27-nation bloc's dated cybersecurity rules, just days after data on a new coronavirus vaccine was unlawfully accessed in a hack attack on the European Medicines Agency.
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