Technology

Twitter has lately removed a number of suspected trolls and fake accounts from its platform, sparking complaints by its most vocal users who said on Wednesday that as a result, they had lost thousands of […]

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As an effort to protect the U.S. wireless systems from China and Russia, several top national security officials from the Trump administration are pressuring their bosses to build a nationalized mobile wireless network. A PowerPoint deck […]

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A suit to challenge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was filed on Tuesday by 21 U.S. state attorneys general. Meanwhile, Democrat officials said that only one more vote is needed in the Senate to repeal […]

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A chain of suspicious-looking websites that are made to look exactly as the U.S. Senate’s  internal email system was discovered by a Tokyo-based cybersecurity firm. By the findings of the firm the websites functioned as […]

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On Sunday, a United States spy satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The satellite was launched by a SpaceX rocket and as two U.S. officials reported on a briefing of the mission the satellite […]

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Russian officials have ordered development of a new cryptocurrency so that they could move money out of the country and evade international sanctions. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s economic adviser Sergei Glazyev explained that the instrument […]

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  President Barack Obama published a warning against, as he says, “irresponsible” use of social media by influential persons. The warning was issued while the former president had an interview with Britain’s Prince Harry on […]

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The Russian hacking group “Fancy Bear” targeted more than 200 journalists around the world with phishing emails as early as mid-2014 and as recently as a few months ago, Associated Press reports and adds that it identified […]

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President Donald Trump signed into law legislation banning the use of Kaspersky Lab software in the U.S. government. This move caps an effort to put an end to the use of the Russian firm’s antivirus in […]

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Google will increase the number of staffers who will work on rooting out violent extremist content on YouTube to ten thousand. “We will continue the growth of our teams, with the goal of bringing the […]

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Some four Republican senators are pressuring the ride-handling company, Uber, for more information about a cyber attack they endured last year, which resulted in over 50 million user accounts being compromised. Senators John Thune, Orrin […]

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation did not inform scores of U.S. officials that Russian hackers tried to break into their personal Gmail accounts even though it had evidence for at least a year that the […]

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The Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement wants help from technology companies to help keep track of visa holders in the United States, Newsweek reports. ICE officials hope to develop algorithms that would evaluate any […]

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Phones using Android operating system have been collecting their users’ location data even when the setting was turned off. The gathering has been happening since the beginning of this year, Quartz reported. Google’s spokesperson has […]

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Uber said on Tuesday that it had paid $100,000 to hackers in order to cover up a last year’s massive data breach which exposed millions of users’ personal information. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi informed that two […]

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In a bid to assure their users of the reliability of the content and to fight fake new, several media outlets, as well as Facebook, Twitter and Google will use so-called “Trust Indicators” which will […]

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The Trump administration is set to reveal its rules for deciding whether to disclose cyber flaws or keep them under wraps, Reuters informs. The revised rules are intended to show how the government determines whether […]

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The Senate Commerce Committee revealed on Wednesday that current and former Equifax CEOs as well as ex-Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer are to testify later this month before the Senate panel about cybersecurity breaches. According to […]

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