Spanish Football League La Liga Defends Spying on Users Through Phone Microphone
The La Liga app, the official streaming app for Spain’s most popular football league, has been used to access the microphone and GPS of...
Dixons Carphone Admits Data Breach Affecting 5.9 Million Payment Cards
Dixons Carphone has suffered one of the UK’s biggest data breaches as the company revealed on Wednesday that hackers tried to steal almost six...
Microsoft Partners With Thales on Cloud Solution for Armed Forces
European provider of defense and cybersecurity solution Thales said Monday it has partnered with Microsoft for the development of a common Defense Cloud solution...
Feds Arrest 74 for Cyber-Enabled Financial Fraud
Federal authorities announced on Monday what they called a “significant coordinated effort” to disrupt Business Email Compromise (BEC) schemes that are designed to intercept...
Google Bars Use of Its AI Tech for Weapons, Will Work With Military
Google said Thursday it feels a sense of responsibility and will not design or deploy its AI tech in areas “whose principal purpose is...
ZTE to Pay $1 Billion Fine to End US Ban: Will Accommodate American Monitoring...
US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced on Thursday a deal with China’s ZTE which will have the smartphone maker pay a fine of $1...
FTC Sues to Stop Two Operations for Facilitating ‘Billions’ of Illegal Robocalls
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Tuesday it has filed a complaint in federal district court seeking to stop two related operations and their...
FBI Moves to Disrupt Global Botnet of Infected Routers
The Justice Department announced on Wednesday an effort to disrupt a global botnet of hundreds of thousands of infected home and office (SOHO) routers...
HSBC, ING Complete First Live Finance Transaction on Blockchain Platform
HSBC and ING on Monday announced they have carried out the first live trade-finance transaction on R3’s scalable blockchain platform called Corda. This transaction...
Efail: Email Encryption Standards Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
Researchers from the University of Applied Sciences (FH) in Münster, Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security at Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven...