Security
A hacker who reportedly posed as the CEO of a financial institution claims to have obtained access to the more than 80,000-member database of InfraGard, an FBI-run outreach program that shares sensitive information on national ...
Dec 15, 2022
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Security
A major Australian health insurer warned Tuesday of a "distressing" threat by a purported hacker to release client data within 24 hours, following a hack affecting 10 million people.
Nov 8, 2022
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Business
From what you buy online, to how you remember tasks, to when you monitor your doorstep, Amazon is seemingly everywhere.
Aug 23, 2022
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Business
You walk into a shopping centre to buy some groceries. Without your knowledge, an electronic scan of your face is taken by in-store surveillance cameras and stored in an online database. Each time you return to that store, ...
Jul 21, 2022
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Business
Most people have at least a vague sense that someone somewhere is doing mischief with the data footprints created by their online activities: Maybe their use of an app is allowing that company to build a profile of their ...
May 25, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Algorithms recommend products while we shop online or suggest songs we might like as we listen to music on streaming apps.
May 13, 2022
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Internet
The metaverse is more than the latest obsession of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It's a three-dimensional world of virtual and augmented reality that we will be exploring—via our digital avatars—over the next decade.
Dec 23, 2021
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Security
Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took COVID-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020, hospital officials in the French capital disclosed on Wednesday.
Sep 15, 2021
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Security
Indiana health officials said Tuesday they are notifying nearly 750,000 state residents that a cybersecurity company "improperly accessed" their personal data from the state's online COVID-19 contact tracing survey—a description ...
Aug 18, 2021
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Business
Zoom, the videoconferencing firm, has agreed to settle a class-action US privacy lawsuit for $85 million, it said Sunday.
Aug 2, 2021
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