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China Tech Stocks Lenovo, ZTE Tumble After Chip Hack Report
2018-10-05 16:16

HONG KONG (AP) — Chinese tech stocks Lenovo Group and ZTE Corp. tumbled in Hong Kong on Friday following a news report Chinese spies might have used chips supplied by another company to hack into...

Chinese tech titans' share prices slump after THAT Super Micro story
2018-10-05 11:50

Lenovo slides by a fifth, ZTE sinks too on back of server allegations The ripple effect of explosive claims that Chinese government agents slipped snooper chips into Super Micro servers used by...

Report: Chinese Spy Chip Backdoored US Defense, Tech Firms
2018-10-05 09:18

If Accurate, Bloomberg Report Would Mark a New Era of Mass Hardware CompromiseDid the Chinese government pull off one of the most secretive hardware hacks of all time? That's what information...

Major Tech Companies Finally Endorse Federal Privacy Regulation
2018-09-28 18:19

The major tech companies, scared that states like California might impose actual privacy regulations, have now decided that they can better lobby the federal government for much weaker national...

E.U.: Tech Giants Face Big Fines, 1 Hour Limit to Remove Extremist Content
2018-09-14 20:32

The rules would apply to all hosting service providers offering services in the E.U., regardless of size, even if they’re not based there.

Tech support scammers leverage “evil cursor” technique to “lock” Chrome
2018-09-14 11:10

Tech scammers are constantly coming up with new techniques to make users panic and seek their bogus services. The latest one, documented by Malwarebytes researchers, has been dubbed “evil cursor”....

Microsoft purges 3,000 tech support scams hiding on TechNet
2018-09-12 13:03

Microsoft has taken down thousands of ads for tech support scams that infested the company’s TechNet support domain.

It looks like tech-savvy drivers will have to lead connected car data purge
2018-09-07 08:01

Manufacturers seem reluctant to do anything about it The privacy issues thrown up by connected cars don't seem to be going anywhere soon.…

How you can get low-tech hacked
2018-09-06 20:43

Don't assume all hacking is high tech, says Frances Zelazny, VP at BioCatch. Low-tech hacking is still being used, and is also still working.

Google Promises Crackdown on 'Tech Support' Fraudsters
2018-09-05 11:18

But Tech-Support Fraud is Surging, via Cold Calls, Phishing and More, FBI WarnsWhile tech-support scams have proliferated for years, the FBI says losses tied to such fraud are now higher than...