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100,000 Genomes Project is secure, insists chair An ambitious project to map the DNA of a million Brits has experienced such sustained hack attacks that officials have had to shift the data to a...

If you have European ancestry, there's a 60% chance that somebody vaguely related to you can be used to find out who you are.

If you're an American of European descent, there's a 60% you can be uniquely identified by public information in DNA databases. This is not information that you have made public; this is...

A new batch of vulnerabilities in various Cisco products has been fixed, three of which are critical. Cisco DNA Center vulnerabilities Two vulnerabilities affect Cisco Digital Network Architecture...

Spotify and Ancestry have teamed up to let you use your real DNA to tell your “musical” DNA.

Ancestry, MyHeritage and others have committed to a policy framework for the collection, protection, sharing and use of consumer genetic data.

A group of DNA collection and genealogy websites have agreed on new guidelines for handling sensitive genetic and family data.

Also, Apple tightens up its certificate requirements Roundup This week brought new charges for Marcus Hutchins, a novel way to sneak malware into archives, and shady hotspots for World Cup fans.…

An unspecified "private" server was found with the account data of users who signed up for the service, in the largest breach since Equifax last year.

MyHeritage, an Israeli-based genealogy and DNA testing company, disclosed today that a security researcher found on the Internet a file containing the email addresses and hashed passwords of more...