Tag: Computing
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Pressure mounts on EU-US Privacy Shield after Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Yet more pressure on the precariously placed EU-US Privacy Shield: The European Union parliament’s civil liberties committee has called …
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To truly protect citizens, lawmakers need to restructure their regulatory oversight of big tech
outmoded technology of user choice and consent, the main result of which has seen almost everyone in Europe (and beyond) inundated with …
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Hacker jailed for selling Asda and Uber customers’ data on dark web
A hacker who carried out attacks on a string of companies before selling customers’ data on the dark web has been jailed for more than 10 …
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Some low-cost Android phones shipped with malware built in
Avast has found that many low-cost, non-Google-certifed Android phones shipped with a strain of malware built in that could send users to …
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A simple solution to end the encryption debate
David Gurle Contributor Share on Twitter David Gurle is the founder and chief executive of Symphony Comunication. Bill Harrington …
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Exploit puts popular web and mobile apps at risk
A new exploit could allow users to bypass security checks in Electron, a popular cross-platform development framework. The exploit, posted …
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Serious Rowhammer Attacks Can Now Be Carried Out Remotely
Over the last few years, we’ve seen an increasing number of hacks and exploits targeting fundamental properties of underlying hardware, …
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Microsoft launches preview of Azure Confidential Computing
Microsoft Corp. is announcing a preview of new data security capabilities within its Azure cloud, as part of a previously announced Azure …
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Toward transitive data privacy and securing the data you don’t share
Anshu Sharma Contributor Anshu Sharma is a serial entrepreneur and a former venture partner at Storm Ventures. More posts by this …
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A New Wave of Spectre-Class Attacks May Be Coming for Intel CPUs
Ever since Spectre and Meltdown were unveiled, there’s been the risk that future attacks might surface as well. One of the things that …
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No Computing Device Too Small For Cryptojacking
Pretty much any computing device — however low powered — appears to be becoming a target for cybercriminals trying to make money …
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What do Meltdown, Spectre, and RyzenFall Mean for the Future of Cybersecurity?
Andrew Lohn Contributor Andrew Lohn is an engineer at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. The security community is still reeling …
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