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The company will also offer more control over data sharing. It's immediately "pausing" the use of the majority of third-party analytics services in its apps and website while it devises more ways to opt out of that sharing in its Control…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) project bZx has suffered an attack in which a hacker successfully gamed multiple DeFi protocols to extract $350,000 from the platform, about 2 percent of the assets under management. In response, the company…

The UK said last week it would allow carriers to continue using equipment from "high risk" vendors like Huawei in their 5G buildouts as long as they don't integrate the gear into the sensitive, core parts of their networks. The country also…

“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society.” Amazon engineer Max Eliaser The greatest threat posed to democracy in any free nation is that of…

The breach was apparently carried out in early May 2018, when Bezos received an unsolicited message from the crown prince -- or an entity in control of his WhatsApp account. That message allegedly contained a video file that forensic…

While Apple emphasized that the company isn't collecting location data and that the UWB checks take place "entirely on the device," it promised to roll out a dedicated toggle for the chip to assuage people's fears. YouTube creator Brandon…

That kind of SIM-swapping technique could be used by attackers to gain control of a victim's phone number. They can then use that number to reset the victim's passwords and access, say, their emails and bank accounts. To test the carriers'…

LAS VEGAS – In tech there's an old adage: "hardware as hard." It's much easier to prototype and test a product when a mistake can be fixed by deleting and rewriting a few lines of code. At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas…

Project Artemis reviews text-based conversations and evaluates whether they could be considered grooming. It assigns a rating, and companies can use those ratings to flag conversations for review by human moderators. The project began in…