In the 2016, we saw how foreign powers could affect US elections. Now the nation is scrambling to secure the system in the midst of a pandemic.
5 years, 8 monthsHacking attempts against people associated with the Biden and Trump campaigns were unsuccessful, Microsoft says, but the company is urging everyone involved in the 2020 elections to stay on guard.
5 years, 8 monthsRolling out now to the Phone app on Android, the function will also display legitimate calls with a 'Verified' badge, indicating Google has authenticated the caller is a real business and not a fraudster.
5 years, 8 monthsFederal agencies don't make it clear how to report security problems, and the feds aren't good at letting people know a bug report has been received. Under new guidelines, they have until March to get their acts together.
5 years, 8 monthsThird-party apps will not be required to obtain permission to track users until early next year instead of this fall when iOS 14 first roll outs.
5 years, 8 monthsAfter a round of layoffs in April, the Tor Project looks to corporate sponsors for financial help, but these benefactors will have no say in the group's decisions, it says.
5 years, 8 monthsAV Test shows that Windows computers are the most vulnerable to malware attacks and are targeted more than any other operating system.
5 years, 8 monthsAn unnamed employee at Tesla’s 'Gigafactory' in Sparks, Nevada apparently helped the FBI to arrest the Russian national who wanted to steal data from the automaker.
5 years, 8 monthsThe group pulled off their piracy by claiming they were home video retailers and then tricking DVD and Blu-ray wholesale distributors into supplying them the discs weeks prior to the actual release dates.
5 years, 8 monthsAccording to the FBI, Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov promised to pay as much as $1 million to the employee to help his shadowy group steal data from a Nevada-based company for ransom purposes.
5 years, 8 monthsThe hard-to-remove Triada malware was getting preinstalled on thousands of Tecno W2 handsets from a Chinese company called Transsion, according to security research from Upsteam Systems.
5 years, 8 monthsThe school decided to pay over $457,000 to the hackers in order to prevent them from leaking private information stolen in the attack.
5 years, 9 monthsThe leaked data relates to car accidents and includes names, insurance records, medical diagnosis notes, and payment records.
5 years, 9 monthsThe attack can spread to other developers' Mac computers in the event they run or incorporate the malicious Xcode project into their own software products.
5 years, 9 monthsThe terrorist groups including Al-Qaeda and Hamas's military wing have been using cryptocurrencies to take donations through their online fundraising activities, federal officials say.
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