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Tracking Misinformation Campaigns in Real-Time Is Possible, Study Shows
The researchers hope software engineers will be able to build on their work to create a real-time monitoring system for exposing foreign influence in American politics...
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Major Security Flaws Found in South Korea Quarantine App
Software engineer Frederic Rechtenstein found a South Korean mobile application designed to enforce pandemic quarantines contained major security flaws that could...
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India Seeks to Limit Facebook, Google Dominance Over Online Data
An expert committee appointed by the Indian government has called for the creation of a new data regulator to oversee the sharing, monetization, and privacy of...
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Google Promises Privacy With Virus App but Can Still Collect Location Data
Some government agencies that use the software said they were surprised Google may pick up the locations of certain app users. Others said they had unsuccessfully...
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Predicting Cyberattacks
A growing number of researchers are focusing on being more proactive in predicting and preventing cyberattacks, rather than reactively fixing problems later.
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Deepfake Used to Attack Activist Couple Shows New Disinformation Frontier
A student at the U.K.'s University of Birmingham has been unmasked as fictional by state-of-the-art forensic analysis programs from Israel-based startup Cyabra....
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Siri, Alexa Targeted as E.U. Probes Internet of Things
The European Commission is mounting an antitrust investigation into the Internet of Things, targeting voice assistants such as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa. ...
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U.K. Government Test-and-Trace Program Illegal under GDPR
The government skipped essential data privacy impact assessments in its rush to get the system up and running.
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This Device Keeps Voice Assistants From Snooping on You
An international team of researchers has developed a Raspberry Pi-based device that eventually may be able to warn users when Amazon's Alexa and other voice assistants...
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A Brazen Online Attack Targets V.I.P. Twitter Users in a Bitcoin Scam
In a major show of force, hackers breached some of the site's most prominent accounts, a Who's Who of Americans in politics, entertainment and tech.
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Tech to Contain Coronavirus on College Campuses Sparks Fresh Privacy Concerns
U.S. colleges are racing to contain the Covid-19 pandemic with technology including contact-tracing applications and facial recognition, prompting concerns about...
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Changing Course, U.S. Allows Visas for Online Students
The Trump administration said it would no longer require foreign students to attend in-person classes during the coronavirus pandemic in order to remain in the...
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Phishing Attacks: This Sophisticated Group Has Been Operating Undiscovered for at Least a Year
Cybersecurity researchers found a new phishing group targeting large companies worldwide, which may have been operating undiscovered for over a year.
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Study: Only 18% of Data Science Students Are Learning AI Ethics
Only 15% of university instructors and professors surveyed are teaching artificial intelligence (AI) ethics, and just 18% of students say they are learning about...
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ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee Urges Supreme Court to Narrowly Interpret Computer Fraud Act
ACM's U.S. Technology Policy Committee Thursday filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the court to narrowly interpret the Computer Fraud...
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NSF Reveals First Details on Foreign-Influence Investigations
The U.S. National Science Foundation has taken action in 16-to-20 individual cases, most involving "very well-known academics," in which foreign ties were not properly...
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National Security Agency Warns That VPNs Could Be Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
A cybersecurity advisory issued by the National Security Agency's Cybersecurity Directorate warns that virtual private networks may be vulnerable to cyberattacks...
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A Plan to Make Police Data Open Source Started on Reddit
The Police Data Accessibility Project aims to request, download, clean, and standardize public records that right now are overly difficult to find.
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Harvard and M.I.T. Sue to Stop Trump Visa Rules for Foreign Students
Universities opposed a policy that would require students to take at least one in-person class or be denied permission to study in the U.S.
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