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Cybersecurity

A new Apple patent reveals how the iPhone maker could add a cool biometric to Face ID, vein recognition. The move could see an even greater shift away from passwords.

Businesses involved in transferring personal data need to achieve levels of protection for privacy in the U.S. that are essentially equivalent to those in the EU, which means operational adequacy.

The move could throw U.S.-China relations further into jeopardy.

Criminal hackers are employing a new tool to attack the company’s ATMs and it comes from a surprising source.

The Russian government has denied claims that state-sponsored hackers have been stealing Covid-19 vaccine research. It comes as an ISC report says "immediate action" is needed to help intelligence services tackle "this very capable adversary.”

Churchill ordered them destroyed after the war, but one of these rare Nazi cipher machines has just been sold for $440,000.

The EU Court of Justice strikes down the EU-US Privacy Shield, raising questions of data sovereignty, data autonomy and privacy rights. We rely heavily, collectively on cloud services; now organizations need to enforce data policy of their own and partners in a future-proof manner.

The British government has been forced to admit that its coronavirus test-and-trace system breaks UK and European data protection law.

Another cyber warning has been issued about the risk from compromised chargers—but this time data theft is not the issue...

Delivering an excellent online learning experience needs to start with a cybersecurity strategy that includes autonomous endpoint security.

We all know the dangers of easy to crack passwords, but the U. K. government actually wants to make them illegal for internet-connected devices in 2021.

Apple’s iOS 13.6 comes with a bunch of cool new features, but it also fixes 29 security vulnerabilities impacting iPhones and iPads—some of which are pretty serious.

There has been a clash of legal cultures between the EU and the U.S. on privacy law matters, but compromise is key, to avoid unnecessary harm to the global economy.

It is now becoming clear how a U.S. ban on TikTok might work—and the Trump administration says it may come "within weeks." For tens of millions of American users, this will come as a serious shock.

On the surface, the U.K.'s decision to ban Huawei from its 5G network looked devastating for China's leading tech giant. But it's not that simple...

Shattering the false sense of security in tech, the recent Twitter hack blended altruism, fame, greed, social engineering via SIM swapping, and insider threats to steal $120,000 from victims.

Large swathes of the internet went down for many users yesterday. Here's what happened.

Microsoft has just ramped things up a notch as it looks to take on Chrome in the browser wars, with a bunch of new features arriving as part of the latest Edge update.

Twitter confirms hackers downloaded data from some accounts using the 'Your Twitter Data' tool which can create an archive of direct messages. It won't say who they were, only who they were not.

One of the largest mobile operators in Europe has confirmed a ransomware attack by Nefilim cybercriminals, limited data stolen