This is what happens when ICE asks Google for your user information
You're scrolling through your Gmail inbox and see an email with a strange subject line: A string of numbers followed by "Notification from Google."
Mar 24, 2021
0
15
Internet
Page 16 - News tagged with government agencies
Business
Facebook accused of taking money for ads to fake people after disabling 1.3 billion fake accounts
Facebook, which in 2019 paid advertisers a $40 million settlement over inflated video-viewing metrics and is fighting a lawsuit over its "reach" to users, is now taking flak over its revelation this week that it took down ...
Mar 24, 2021
1
17
Energy & Green Tech
Bitcoin price boom 'locking in' vast energy consumption
The cryptocurrency market has been abuzz as Bitcoin gains popularity with investors, reaching an all-time high of over $58,000 apiece in February. In a commentary published March 10 in the journal Joule, financial economist ...
Mar 10, 2021
1
260
Security
Casting a wide intrusion net: Dozens burned with single hack
The SolarWinds hacking campaign blamed on Russian spies and the "grave threat" it poses to U.S. national security are widely known. A very different—and no less alarming—coordinated series of intrusions also detected ...
Mar 7, 2021
0
8
Security
US still unraveling 'sophisticated' hack of 9 gov't agencies
U.S. authorities are still working to unravel the full scope of the likely Russian hack that gave the "sophisticated" actor behind the breach complete access to files and email from at least nine government agencies and about ...
Feb 17, 2021
0
6
Internet
Facebook steps up vaccine misinfo efforts. Will it work?
As inoculation efforts for the coronavirus ramp up around the world, Facebook says it's going all in to block the spread of bogus vaccine claims. In practice, that means the social network plans to ban a new bunch of false ...
Feb 9, 2021
0
0
Security
Russian hack of US agencies exposed supply chain weaknesses
The elite Russian hackers who gained access to computer systems of federal agencies last year didn't need to painstakingly break one-by-one into the networks of each department in order to do damage.
Jan 25, 2021
1
8
Energy & Green Tech
Report calls for multipronged action to mitigate small aircraft lead emissions
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released on Jan. 12 a congressionally mandated report on reducing lead emissions from small aircraft—the single largest lead emitter in the United States. The ...
Jan 15, 2021
0
8
Software
Microsoft says hackers viewed source code, didn't change it
Microsoft hackers tied to a massive intrusion of dozens of U.S. government agencies and private companies sneaked further into its systems than previously thought, although the intrusion doesn't appear to have caused any ...
Jan 1, 2021
4
104
Security
Cyberattack hit key US Treasury systems: senator
Hackers broke into systems used by top US Treasury officials during a massive cyberattack on government agencies and may have stolen essential encryption keys, a senior lawmaker said Monday.
Dec 22, 2020
1
33
