Intel hit with 32 lawsuits over security flaws Intel Corp said on Friday shareholders and customers had filed 32 class action lawsuits against the company in connection with recently-disclosed security flaws in its microchips. Most of the lawsuits – 30 – are customer class action cases that claim that users […]
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Facebook apologizes for text spam for 2FA users; here’s how to secure your account wisely An engineer signed up for Facebook two-factor authentication and the social network responded by sending him endless text notifications, ones he didn’t want. After Gabriel Lewis posted about his woes on Twitter, Facebook responded by […]
WhatsApp to go ahead with ‘full feature’ money transfer service in India WhatsApp will launch a “full feature” inter-bank money transfer service in India, its biggest market, after a test involving a million users, National Payments Corp of India said. Friday’s statement marks the de facto official launch of WhatsApp’s […]
Facebook faces big challenge to prevent future U.S. election meddling The Russian influence operation designed to tamper with the 2016 U.S. presidential election used a combination of old-school espionage tactics and 21st-century technologies that will not be easy to stop, even now that the methods have been exposed, experts said. […]
Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results to make pics harder to steal Google is making a change to image search today that sounds small but will have a big impact: it’s removing the “view image” button that appeared when you clicked on a picture, which allowed you to […]
Google to acquire Xively IoT platform from LogMeIn for $50M Google announced today that it intends to buy Xively from LogMeIn for $50 million, giving Google Cloud an established IoT platform to add to their product portfolio. In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Google indicated it wants to use […]
EU tells Facebook, Google and Twitter to do more for users Europe’s justice commissioner told Facebook (FB.O), Twitter (TWTR.N) and Google (GOOGL.O) on Thursday to do more to bring their user terms in line with EU law, ramping up pressure on the tech giants after their efforts were deemed too […]
Hackers stole $6 million in attack on SWIFT system, Russian central bank says Unknown hackers stole 339.5 million rubles ($6 million) in an attack on the SWIFT international payments messaging system in Russia last year, the Russian central bank said on Friday. The disclosure, buried at the bottom of a […]
After Apple’s fight with FBI, two groups say they can solve the encryption battle Two years after the FBI unsuccessfully sought Apple’s help to hack into a phone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, law enforcement and companies are no closer to resolving the dispute over digital-message privacy. […]
Why Google’s Ad-Blocking in Chrome Might Prove Awkward For the Company Google, frustrated with “annoying” advertisements involving techniques such as pop-ups and loudly auto-playing videos, is from Thursday using its Chrome browser to strike back. Users of the browser—that is to say, well over half the people who surf the […]
