The alliance wants tech companies to build backdoor access to users’ encrypted data, by force if necessary.

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There are 11 security flaws affecting VxWorks: “the most widely used operating system you may never have heard about”.

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Google’s Project Zero has unveiled details of a bug in Apple’s iMessage that lets attackers read data from an iPhone without any user interaction.

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The Department of Public Safety says it won’t pay, but given the umpteen times the state’s agencies have been hit, somebody’s not listening.

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It would require taking over and stranding 20% of a city’s cars to freeze traffic, and only 10% to impede ambulances, physicists calculate.

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Global financial services company Capital One has just announced a massive data breach.

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As politicians should know by now, secure messaging apps such as Telegram can quickly become a double-edged sword.

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Apple Watch and HomePod have the highest rate of inadvertent recordings, a whistleblower says.

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Two years ago, the US government fined an international cybercriminal and his fraudulent bitcoin exchange over $100m. Now, it’s going after them for the money.

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Equifax is fined $675 million, while New York data breach notification law now covers biometrics, passwords, and more.

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