Security
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Chegg resets 40 million user passwords after data breach
Chegg, a technology giant specializing in textbook rental, has confirmed a data breach affecting some 40 million customers. In a…
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In Senate hearing, tech giants push lawmakers for federal privacy rules
Another day, another hearing of tech giants in Congress. Wednesday’s hearing at the Senate Commerce Committee with Apple, Amazon, Google…
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Watchdog says face scanning at US airports is plagued with technical problems
A watchdog report has warned that Homeland Security’s face scanning program, designed to track all departing travelers from the U.S.,…
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France records big jump in privacy complaints since GDPR
Another European data protection agency has reported a sharp rise in the numbers of complaints since the EU updated its…
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Mozilla launches Firefox Monitor, its ‘Have I Been Pwned’ clone
Mozilla today announced the launch of Firefox Monitor. This free service, which Mozilla has been testing since this summer, informs…
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Snyk raises $22M on a $100M valuation to detect security vulnerabilities in open source code
Open source software is now a $14 billion+ market and growing fast, in use in one way or another in…
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