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TaskRabbit, the on-demand errand service acquired by IKEA last year, announced today that has taken its website and app offline while investigating a “cybersecurity incident.” The company also said that people who use the same password on TaskRabbit as for other services should...
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Law enforcement agencies — despite protests from privacy advocates — have long lobbied to get access to your smartphone.
Now a mysterious U.S. startup called Grayshift — which reportedly has an ex-Apple security engineer on staff — is providing iPhone unlocking tools to cops, according...
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Nothing to see here, folks.Image: Bill Clark/CQ Roll CallBy Rachel Kraus2018-04-10 16:51:44 UTC
Get this crazy coincidence, guys!
On the same day that Mark Zuckerberg is headed to Capitol Hill to meet with lawmakers ahead of his congressional testimony, Facebook announced a new initiative for...
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From leaked passwords to identity theft, cybersecurity issues are constantly in the news. Few issues though are as important — or as under-reported by the media — as the security of America’s industrial control infrastructure. Oil rigs, power plants, water treatment facilities and other...
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There's an age-old adage that goes, "get a VPN or risk getting your Google search history exposed to the entirety of the Internet."
Okay, fine, so maybe that's not true, but come on, it's 2018, and you should know by now how important it is...
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Image: taphotograph / Getty ImagesBy Adam Rosenberg2018-04-07 17:54:18 UTC
YouTube might have finally figured out a way to keep creepy, exploitative videos away from children using the YouTube Kids app: Human curators.
An upcoming, technically-not-yet-confirmed new version of the app eliminates the algorithm that selects...
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Attention Sears shoppers.Image: David L. Ryan/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesBy Rachel Kraus2018-04-05 15:29:29 UTC
If you're a frequent flyer or shop in bargain basements, your credit card info may have been compromised.
Delta Air Lines Inc. and Sears Holding Corp. announced on Wednesday they...
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If you're a person in the world in 2018, there are probably two words you remain in constant fear of: data breach.
In recent history, several businesses used regularly by modern consumers have been targets of hacks, resulting in compromised data for millions of people.
Perhaps...
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Image: peter brandt/Getty ImagesBy Monica Chin2018-04-02 16:08:10 UTC
Another day, another breach.
Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor confirmed Sunday that more than five million credit and debit card numbers were stolen from customers in a recent data breach.
The cybercriminal syndicate known as Fin7...
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In a week of harrowing city-level cyber attacks, New York is taking some precautions.
While the timing is coincidental, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just announced that the city will introduce the first tools in its suite of cybersecurity offerings to protect...
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In a week of har...
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