The records seem to be referring to hundreds of protests organized on Facebook against the Trump administration’s family separation policy last year.
A cybersecurity company called LookingGlass Cyber Solutions provided the Department of Homeland Security with a list of hundreds of protests against the Trump administrator’s family separation policy last year, according to documents obtained by activist groups under the Freedom of Information Act.
Uber apologized after its support account tweeted the n-word after a Twitter user switched their name to that slur.
Uber apologized Monday after its support Twitter account tweeted the n-word. The tweet was in response to a Twitter user who adopted the slur as their username and then tweeted at the support account, apparently in a deliberate attempt to get Uber to tweet the word.
New documents allege that border agencies claim broad rights to inspect electronic devices to find evidence of anything from tax evasion to environmental violations.
While border agencies Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement often say they need to inspect people’s electronics at the border to stop human smuggling, smuggling of child pornography, and terrorism, the American Civil Liberties Union and Electronic Frontier Foundation say the agencies are authorized to search for a far wider range of types of evidence.
He denies a role in the leak.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has fired the nation’s defense secretary, Gavin Williamson, over allegations he was involved in leaking information about Chinese telecom giant Huawei’s potential involvement in the country’s 5G network.
Bland’s relatives are calling for authorities to reopen the case into her death, which was ruled a suicide.
Newly released video has emerged showing part of the arrest of Sandra Bland from her own perspective, leading her family to call for a reinvestigation into her death.
The proposed law would set minimum penalties for credit data leaks and set up an Office of Cybersecurity at the Federal Trade Commission.
A group of U.S. congressional Democrats are proposing a law that would regulate data security at credit bureaus like Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion, setting minimum penalties for breaches at the companies and empowering the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to regulate their security practices.
Binance says hackers stole 7,000 bitcoin.
Binance, said to be one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, reported late Tuesday that hackers had stolen 7,000 bitcoin—valued at more than $40 million at current prices—from one of the company’s bitcoin wallets.
Cybersecurity experts are offering testimony for an election security hearing scheduled on Capitol Hill today.
An election security hearing is scheduled in the House of Representatives’ Committee on House Administration for 2 p.m. Wednesday. While experts slated to testify generally praised progress that’s been made in recent years in their written statements, they say more needs to be done to keep elections safe in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential vote:
The U.S. attorney general has vowed an “all-out attack” on fast-growing internet fraud, but experts say the crackdown is more like a game of whack-a-mole.
The phone rings, and the person on the line claims to be calling from a trustworthy tech company like Microsoft or Apple. There’s a problem with your computer, he says–perhaps it’s infected with viruses or infiltrated by hackers–but he’s happy to work with you to clean things up for a fee.
Courts are still grappling with the implications of biometric technologies.
An Idaho federal magistrate judge refused to issue a search warrant forcing someone accused of having child pornography to unlock their cellphone with a fingerprint.
The email marketing company is rolling out customer relationship management software, websites, and more tools to help its customers reach audiences.
Mailchimp is best known as an email marketing platform—hence its name—but in recent years the company has aggressively expanded into other marketing offerings for small businesses. It’s introduced everything from snail mail postcards to social media advertising tools.
Consumers have a right to sue Apple under antitrust law, the court ruled, though it didn’t address whether Apple actually violates the law.
Consumers can sue Apple over allegedly monopolizing the market for iOS apps, which they say raises prices, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
CrowdStrike, which has been involved in some high-profile cybersecurity investigations, filed to go public Tuesday.
The cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, perhaps best known for its role in investigating the Russia-linked hack on the Democratic National Committee in 2016, filed Tuesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public.
Remember where you came from.
If you use the popular genetic testing service 23andMe to find out where your ancestors hailed from, you will soon be able to quickly click through to find travel options in those countries, the companies say.
A number of witnesses called for a moratorium on police use of the technology, which House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings called a “defective system.”
In a Wednesday hearing on face recognition technology, experts and members of the House Oversight Committee expressed concern about errors and bias linked to the technology and its impact on civil liberties.
Charges relating to Assange publishing classified information could lead to a First Amendment battle if he’s successfully extradited to the United States.
Federal prosecutors in Virginia unveiled new charges Thursday against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, including some related to publishing classified information received from former soldier Chelsea Manning.
It’s the latest U.S. city to be struck by such a digital attack, and experts say limited cybersecurity budgets mean it may not be the last
Visitors to Baltimore’s government website this week saw a banner message that might be jarring for a city that’s taken pride in its high-tech “smart city” initiatives.
Video manipulation technology is only going to get more sophisticated. Where will social media companies draw the line?
Facebook has apparently decided to permit the posting of an altered video making House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appear drunk or otherwise impaired, while YouTube has taken the video down from its platform.
It could be a hoax. But the scary part is, it’s theoretically possible.
A Germany-based user of the Chinese social network Weibo claims to be using facial recognition to match porn performers to profile pictures taken from social media, Motherboard reports.
The login credential management company plans to keep fighting the risks of stolen passwords.
Dashlane, the popular password management service, has closed a $110-million Series D funding round and hired a new chief marketing officer: Joy Howard, who is currently CMO at Lyft and will join Dashlane in August.