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The Eliminating Abuse and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2019 (EARN IT Act) has passed the Senate Judiciary Committee after addressing...

California Begins Enforcing New Privacy Law

Following a six month grace period, California has begun enforcing its new privacy regulation, effective July 1....

Legislation Would Ban Federal Law Enforcement From Using Facial Recognition

Senators Ed Markey and Jeff Merkley have introduced legislation that would ban federal law enforcement agencies from using facial recognition....

Comcast Joins Mozilla’s Secure Browsing Initiative

Comcast has become the first ISP to join Mozilla’s initiative and “provide Firefox users with private and secure encrypted Domain Name System (DNS) servic...

Boston Bans Facial Recognition For Government Use

Boston has joined the growing ranks of US cities that have banned the use of facial recognition by government officials....

Sony Announces $50,000 PlayStation Bug Bounty

Sony has announced it will pay significant bug bounties for PlayStation 4 bugs. Bug bounties are...

Senators Introduce Legislation Attacking Encryption

Another day, another attack on the encryption standards that protect every single person using the internet and computing devices....

How Does Hacking Impact Password Security?

The average business user has 191 passwords, but are they secure? Likely not. 91% of people know that reusing the same password increases their risk of a s...

Zoom Charts Path Toward End-to-End Encryption For All Users

Zoom is adding end-to-end encryption (E2EE ) for all users, reversing a decision made just weeks ago to reserve the highest security for paid plans....

Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Knoxville’s Network

Knoxville, TN has suffered a major ransomware attack, forcing it to shut down its entire network....

Microsoft Joins IBM & Amazon, Won’t Sell Facial Recognition Tech to Police

Microsoft has become the third major tech company to announce it will not sell facial recognition technology to police....

UK/Huawei Showdown Heats Up

The ongoing showdown over the UK’s decision to revisit Huawei’s role in the country’s 5G network is heating up....

Signal Now Allows Chat History Transfer on iOS

Secure messaging app Signal has added the ability to transfer one’s chat history on iOS devices. Signa...

Honda Partially Halts Production Due to Cyberattack

Honda has had to halt production at some of its facilities as a result of a cyberattack. Honda’s...

Java Ransomware Spotted In The Wild

A Java-based ransomware that targets the software market and education sectors has been spotted in the wild by Blackberry....

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