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Cybercriminals’ favourite VPN taken down

The virtual private network (VPN) Safe-Inet used by the world’s foremost cybercriminals has been taken down in a coordinated law...
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'Dozens of email accounts' were hacked at U.S. Treasury

Dozens of email accounts at the U.S. Treasury Department were compromised by the powerful hackers responsible for a wide-ranging espionage...
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Tesla's Elon Musk asks about converting 'large transactions' to bitcoin

Elon Musk on Sunday asked about the possibility of converting "large transactions" of Tesla Inc's balance sheet into bitcoin, according...
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U.S. blacklists dozens of Chinese firms including SMIC

The United States confirmed on Friday it will add dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker, SMIC, to...
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Sony pulls Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation

Sony Corp is pulling CD Projekt's video game Cyberpunk 2077 from its PlayStation Store and offering full refunds after gamers...
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Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by...
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Google secretly gave Facebook perks, data in ad deal, U.S. states allege

Facebook Inc and Alphabet's Google, the two biggest players in online advertising, used a series of deals to consolidate their...
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Irish watchdog fines Twitter in landmark for EU data privacy regime

Ireland's data regulator has fined Twitter 450,000 euros ($547,000) for a bug that made some private tweets public, the first...
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Surveillance technology seen worsening U.S. eviction crisis

Increased use of surveillance technologies by landlords across the United States could worsen a looming eviction crisis amid the coronavirus...
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Tech giants face fine of up to 10% of turnover for EU rule breaches

Tech giants could be fined up to 10% of their annual turnover for violating rules aimed at curbing their power,...
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Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage

Google services, including YouTube, Gmail, and Google Drive, were restored for most users on Monday, following a global outage that...
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Russia had nothing to do with suspected U.S. Treasury email snooping, says Kremlin

Russia had nothing to do with alleged monitoring by hackers of internal email traffic at the U.S. Treasury and Commerce...
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Apple is sued by rival over alleged App Store monopoly

Apple Inc was sued on Thursday by the creator of a once-popular app store that accused the iPhone maker of...
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Facebook says some users facing issues with Messenger, Instagram

Facebook Inc said on Thursday some users were facing issues while sending messages on Messenger, Instagram, and its office collaboration...
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Win, lose or settle: Facebook lawsuits will take years to resolve

Facebook, faced with two major antitrust lawsuits, could be forced to break up, settle with changes to its business, or...
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U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye says it was hacked by a nation-state

FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity companies in the United States, said on Tuesday that it had been hacked, likely...
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Resilient European tech startups near record $41 billion investment

European tech startup investment has bounced back from the spring shock of the coronavirus outbreak and is on track to...
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EU sets out search ranking guidelines for Google, Microsoft, platforms

Alphabet unit Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants will have to be more transparent in how they rank online search...
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IBM warns hackers targeting COVID vaccine 'cold chain' supply process

IBM is sounding the alarm over hackers targeting companies critical to the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, a sign that digital...
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U.S. states plan to sue Facebook next week

A group of U.S. states led by New York is investigating Facebook Inc for possible antitrust violations and plans to...
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