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Just a few weeks after announcing it intends to expand by deploying carrier plans for 5G networks, Canadian telecom company Freedom Mobile has fallen victim to a data breach, leaking 5 million unencrypted records online. As confirmed by the carrier, the breach affected personal and financial data of 1,500 customers, ... Read More

Local government agencies in San Francisco are prohibited from using facial recognition technology as a surveillance tool in criminal investigations for fear it might be inaccurate, the city’s Board of Supervisors decided in a 8-1 vote on Tuesday, according to The New York Times. The initiative likely passed as a ... Read More

Critical networks are caught in the crossfire of the current battle over industrial secrets, tech patents, military operations and financial information. Precisely a month after the US The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a joint security advisory warning that a critical backdoor ... Read More

While hackers are often driven by financial gain through extortion schemes, state-sponsored criminal groups actively targeted the public administration sector for cyberespionage purposes in 2018. 16 percent of breaches occurred in public administration where “cyberespionage is rampant,” while 15 percent affected healthcare companies and 10 percent involved financial companies, Verizon ... Read More

Bitcoin payments are now an option on Amazon, and other ecommerce platforms will accept them by 2020 thanks to a startup, a browser extension and the lightning network, writes Coindesk. Bitcoin processes only 7 transactions per second, while Visa handles about 24,000, but the lightning network is a payment protocol ... Read More

An 18-year-old student from New York is suing Apple for $1 billion, claiming he was wrongfully accused of stealing gadgets from a number of Apple stores in Boston, Manhattan, New Jersey and Delaware last year, writes The New York Post. Ousmane Bah says the company’s facial recognition technology misidentified him ... Read More

Could critical infrastructure attacks be making a comeback? Or did these invisible threats never leave in the first place? Extensive research reveals that as many as four threat actors many have been involved in creating Stuxnet, the sophisticated computer worm that demolished Iran’s nuclear infrastructure in 2007. In light of ... Read More

Private users are not the only ones excited about IoT technology and gadgets in everyday activity the countless growth opportunities in the area. A number of companies, organizations and even public institutions have turned to connected devices to build more sustainable, automated infrastructures, but device reliability, data security delivery and ... Read More

The FBI is investigating a ransomware attack that shut down the Weather Channel’s program for an hour on Thursday, according to The Wall Street Journal. The early morning live broadcast was interrupted for some 90 minutes, forcing the cable channel to resort to a taped program. The Weather Channel confirmed ... Read More

After expressing anger that his bug bounty efforts were completely ignored by Mexican officials, a hackers stole and leaked online almost 5,000 confidential documents from the Mexican embassy in Guatemala, writes TechCrunch. The data trove contained critical personal information of Mexican citizens and diplomats, including photocopies of passports, birth certificates, ... Read More