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Facebook may be facing the biggest fine ever imposed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for privacy violations that breached a commitment to protect the personal information of its social network’s 2.2 billion users.
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Consumer advocates and the data-hungry technology industry are drawing early battle lines in 2019 in advance of an expected fight over a national privacy law.
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The founder of Huawei says his company would refuse to disclose secrets about its customers and their communication networks, trying to lay to rest concerns the tech giant might spy for China.
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The Chinese tech company Huawei on Saturday announced it has fired a sales director who was arrested in Poland and charged with spying for China, saying he has brought the firm’s reputation “into disrepute.”
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A British computer hacker has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a cyberattack that knocked out telecommunications services in Liberia.
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Poland's Internal Security Agency has charged a Chinese manager at tech giant Huawei in Poland and one of its own former officers with espionage against Poland on behalf of China, Polish state television reported.
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An adviser to Europe's top court says Google doesn't have to extend "right to be forgotten" rules to its search engines globally.
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More than 40 state attorneys general have announced a $1.5 million settlement with The Neiman Marcus Group over a data breach the Dallas-based retailer disclosed in January 2014.
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Germany’s IT security agency on Saturday defended its response to the leaking of hundreds of politicians’ private information, after lawmakers accused it of failing to inform them quickly enough.
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Marriott says that it now believes that the number of potentially involved guests is 383 million, lower than the 500 million originally estimated.
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The Alaska Department of Revenue has shut down online applications for Alaska Permanent Fund dividends because of security concerns.
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U.S. officials and at least one state said that they have started investigations into a nationwide CenturyLink internet outage that has disrupted 911 service.
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National Guard soldiers from Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota and Utah are deploying to Fort Meade, Maryland, as part of a cyber protection team supporting U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
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The FBI and international law enforcement agencies have stepped up efforts against the Money Mules and say they're building bigger cases than before.
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BevMo is warning that a data breach may have allowed a hacker to steal credit card numbers and other information from more than 14,000 customers who used the alcohol-seller’s website.
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The Idaho National Laboratory is mainly known as the nation's primary lab for nuclear research. But in the past decade, its cybersecurity work has put it on the leading edge there as well, and it's expanding.
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Greece's supreme court has accepted a French extradition request for Russian bitcoin fraud suspect extradition, whom the same court has, confusingly, already agreed to extradite to the U.S. and Russia.
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A wave of bomb threats emailed to hundreds of schools, businesses and government buildings across the U.S. triggered searches, evacuations and fear — but there were no signs of explosives, and authorities said the scare appeared to be a crude extortion attempt.
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As U.S. President Donald Trump re-imposed harsh economic sanctions on Iran last month, hackers scrambled to break into personal emails of American officials tasked with enforcing them.
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Hertz is teaming up with Clear, the maker of biometric screening kiosks found at many airports, in an effort to slash the time it takes to pick up a rental car.
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Google's CEO Sundar Pichai’s appearance Tuesday, Dec. 11, before the House Judiciary Committee comes after he angered members of a Senate panel in September by declining their invitation to testify about foreign governments’ manipulation of online services to sway U.S. political elections.
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Cybersecurity experts say a newly enacted law rushed through Australia's parliament will instead be a boon to the criminal underworld by undermining the technical integrity of the internet, hurting digital security and user privacy.
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Two Iranian men already indicted in New Jersey in connection with SamSam ransomware attacks now face new federal charges in Georgia related to a ransomware attack that caused havoc for the city of Atlanta earlier this year.
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The British Parliament has released some 250 pages worth of documents that show Facebook considered charging developers for data access.
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Thousands of emails were stolen from the hacked accounts of aides to the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) during the 2018 midterm campaign.
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