Nintendo has admitted to a data breach of 160,000 Nintendo accounts after users had repeatedly complained on social media of the payment information being misused to make purchases.
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MIT researchers in collaboration with CMU, Brown and Boston University has developed a privacy preserving COVID-19 contact tracing app that uses Bluetooth to broadcast chiprs of random IDs to other devices.
Maze ransomware attack on the IT services company may cause chain reaction across the industry. Besides service disruptions, customers may face elevated risks of fraud and cyber threats.
Use of 'pandemic drones' to enforce social distancing has come under fire over concerns of possible privacy violations. The police surveillance drones would yell at people not observing the rules and also have sensors to detect health conditions.
Google says it blocks 18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19 plus another 240 million daily spam messages related to the coronavirus pandemic.
FTC's new AI guidelines on autonomous decision making addressed five general principles to ensure the proper use and protection of the consumer.
Newly discovered a TikTok vulnerability that allows hackers to show fake videos by executing man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks, making it easy for hackers to promote scams, misinformation, or hate.
Top Chinese telecom operators have jointly introduced a new 5G messaging service based on the GSMA RCS standard that seeks to replace WeChat, the popular Chinese messaging app.
Facebook has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in California against a software engineer who developed ad cloaking software...
In a recent BGP hijacking incident, internet traffic meant for 200 major networks, content delivery networks and cloud providers were redirected through Russian state-owned telecommunications provider, Rostelecom.
