It's time for a new way to regulate social media platforms
When it came to our online lives, 2018 was revealing in its dysfunction.
Internet
Jan 17, 2019
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News tagged with data breaches
France fines Uber 400,000 euros over huge data breach
France's data protection agency said Thursday that it had fined the US ride-hailing group Uber 400,000 euros ($460,000) over a 2016 data breach that exposed the personal data of some 57 million clients and drivers worldwide.
Business
Dec 20, 2018
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Better security achieved with randomly generating biological encryption keys
Data breaches, hacked systems and hostage malware are frequently topics of evening news casts—including stories of department store, hospital, government and bank data leaking into unsavory hands—but now a team of engineers ...
General Physics
Dec 19, 2018
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Quora reports data breach affecting 100 million users
Quora, a question-and-answer website, has reported a data breach affecting about 100 million users.
Internet
Dec 7, 2018
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Here's why data breaches like the one at Marriott are 'treasure troves for spammers'
The massive data breach revealed by Marriott International sheds light on what hackers often do with the personal data they steal, said Long Lu, a cybersecurity expert at Northeastern. Hackers, he said, frequently sell people's ...
Security
Dec 6, 2018
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The Marriott breach compared with past security breakdowns
Marriott's revelation that as many as 500 million guests may have been affected by a data breach at Starwood hotels, which it bought two years ago, ranks among the largest hacks ever. It is not clear if some of those included ...
Security
Nov 30, 2018
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What are tech companies doing about ethical use of data? Not much
Our relationship with tech companies has changed significantly over the past 18 months. Ongoing data breaches, and the revelations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica scandal, have raised concerns about who owns our data, ...
Internet
Nov 28, 2018
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Cathay says 'most intense' period of data breach lasted months
The world's biggest airline data breach, affecting millions of Cathay Pacific customers, was the result of a sustained cyber attack that lasted for three months, the carrier admitted, while insisting it was on alert for further ...
Security
Nov 13, 2018
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Japan orders Facebook to improve data protection
The Japanese government on Monday ordered Facebook to improve protection of users' personal information following data breaches affecting tens of millions of people worldwide.
Internet
Oct 22, 2018
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Pentagon reveals cyber breach of travel records
The Pentagon on Friday said there has been a cyber breach of Defense Department travel records that compromised the personal information and credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel.
Security
Oct 13, 2018
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