A deep look at Mueller's mid-July indictment of Russia's GRU officers and how they hacked the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and DCCC before the 2016 election
Latest Mueller indictment offers excruciating details to confirm known election pwnage. — In a press briefing just two weeks ago …
Facebook and YouTube, with rules like the “three strikes policy” that assume good faith users, are unprepared for actors like Infowars who exploit loopholes
Facebook and YouTube never anticipated a site like Infowars — Two weeks ago, CNN's Oliver Darcy put a question …
Indian government committee publishes draft data protection law that recommends a data protection authority, right to be forgotten, data localization, and more
The Justice BN Srikrishna committee has submitted its report on data protection to IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
SoftBank and Yahoo Japan partner with Paytm to launch a QR code-based mobile payment service PayPay in Japan by November, with no commission fees for 3 years
Barcode-based payment service ‘PayPay’ to be launched by November in a JV with Yahoo
Twitter says it will begin suspending commenting rights of users who repeatedly post abusive comments on Periscope live streams starting August 10
As part of Twitter's attempted crackdown on abusive behavior across its network, the company announced on Friday afternoon a new policy facing …
Silicon Valley, as world's tech innovation hub, has been target of foreign industrial espionage for decades; its open culture makes it hard to deal with threats
The West Coast is a growing target of foreign espionage. And it's not ready to fight back.
In response to ACLU's Rekognition test, Amazon says it's reasonable for government to weigh in on how law enforcement uses the tech to match face pics to people
When Amazon's controversial facial recognition system mistakenly matched 28 members of Congress with criminal mugshots, it caused quite a stir.
Imperva, a provider of cloud and on-premises cybersecurity software, to acquire DevOps security company Prevoty for $140M in cash
The deal is intended to improve enterprise app security on-premise and in the cloud. — Imperva has announced the acquisition of Prevoty in a deal worth $140 million.
Chinese IoT solutions provider Tuya Smart has raised $200M Series C round from Australian sovereign wealth fund Future Fund, NEA, and other investors
Chinese Internet of things (IoT) solution provider Tuya Smart has raised a US$200 million series C round from Australian sovereign wealth fund Future Fund and other investors.
IBM wins $83M from Groupon for infringing on ecommerce patents
- Patent case IBM's first to go to jury in at least 20 years — Win adds value for IBM's portfolio of more than 45,000 patents — A U.S. jury awarded International Business Machines Corp. $83.5 mil...
After Facebook removed 196 pages and 87 accounts for policy violations in Brazil, far-right activists are harassing fact checkers not involved with the removals
Facebook is ramping up its efforts to cut down on misinformation ahead of Brazil's election this fall — and a right-wing movement is protesting.
Profile of the Guerrilla Skepticism on Wikipedia project, which has 120+ volunteers rewriting articles on conspiracy theories and unscientific health info
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To outsmart Amazon's product-ranking system, some sellers are turning to click farms, reviewers-for-hire, and even paying off Amazon workers for information
The digital giant battles click farms, reviewers-for-hire and other scams as merchants try to outsmart its product-ranking system. Tweets: @riskreversal , @wsj , @ddayen , and @triketora Tweets: Dan N...
Samsung patches multiple SmartThings Hub vulnerabilities found by researchers that could have allowed remote control of smart locks, connected cameras, more
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Browser maker Opera closes up ~10% on first day of trading in the US after raising $115M in its IPO and an additional $60M via private sale to Bitmain and IDG
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Leaked report: UK committee to propose social networks be legally responsible for harmful and illegal content and to let watchdogs audit tech company algorithms
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Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
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