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Cybersecurity Headlines

CYBER SECURITY HEADLINES

Cyber Security Headlines – November 16, 2020

Qualcomm receives U.S. permission to sell 4G chips to Huawei Qualcomm Inc on Friday received a license from the U.S. government to sell 4G mobile...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 13, 2020

Finland pushes through change to ID code law  The Finish government said it was preparing new legislation to allow citizens to change their personal identity...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 12, 2020

Facebook extends ban on political ads In the announcement, the social network said that the ban would extend for another month. Facebook cited the delays...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 11, 2020

Biden aide Bill Russo attacks Facebook’s post-election role Mr. Russo, who is deputy press secretary to the US president-elect tweeted that Facebook is not doing...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 10, 2020

Inrupt launches enterprise privacy platform In 2017, Tim Berners-Lee launched a company called Inrupt to market products that used the open-source Solid system. Monday, Inrupt...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 9, 2020

Trump lawsuit site to report rejected votes leaked voter data The website, called DontTouchTheGreenButton.com was launched by the Trump campaign in relation to the recently...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 6, 2020

Facebook updates its premature victory policy On election night, Facebook told the Wall Street Journal that it's policy to label candidate posts claiming premature victory...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 5, 2020

Facebook and Instagram add pop-up banners about election results The banners inform US users that the results of the US election have not been determined,...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 4, 2020

Instagram banner mistakenly advertises Wednesday as Election Day for some subscribers On Tuesday, a subset of Instagram subscribers saw a notification that stated “Tomorrow is...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 3, 2020

Twitter clarifies its election results policy The company had previously said it will label misleading tweets claiming premature victory in the US presidential election. Now...

Cyber Security Headlines – November 2, 2020

Cybersecurity specialists list their election week fears Calling it the Super Bowl for malicious actors, cybersecurity specialists have a long list of fears over election...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 30, 2020

Hackers steal funds from the Wisconsin Republican Party According to the party’s chairman Andrew Hitt, the attackers stole $2.3 million from the state, with suspicious...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 29, 2020

NSA refuses to say if it still uses encryption backdoors The National Security Agency declined to disclose to Sen. Ron Wyden its promised new guidance...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 28, 2020

TikTok partners with Shopify on social commerce "The deal aims to make it easier for Shopify’s over one million merchants to reach TikTok’s younger audience...

Cyber Security Headlines – October 27, 2020

Twitter to “pre-bunk” voter misinformation On Monday Twitter began placing messages at the top of a user's feed to pre-emptively debunk misinformation about voting by...