Sen. Markey and 2 consumer groups said the Google-owned service must comply with COPPA and should be held accountable for not doing so.

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It’s a drop in the “4.7 billion robocalls placed per month” bucket, but hey, it’s better than nothing!

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After fingers, the iris of the eye, ears and even lips, it was probably inevitable that someone would propose the human heart might be the next big thing in biometric security.

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Those things drop out of pockets at the worst times. Like, say, when you’re hurling a bomb at a brick-and-mortar that you’ve also DDoSed.

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Social Engineered, dedicated to the “Art of Human Hacking,” was gutted, with 55,121 users’ details leaked on the same day as the hack.

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Maintainers of the world’s most popular open source media player, VLC, has issued the biggest single set of security fixes in the program’s history.

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Google has expanded its internet safety guide for children with techniques and games to help them be more info-literate online.

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Here’s a way to keep secrets safe in memory, even in a world of hardware-level leakage due to tricks like Rambleed, Spectre and more.

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Popular file transfer service WeTransfer faces embarrassment this week after admitting that it had mailed file links to the wrong users.

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Researchers have shown that it’s technically possible for hackers to target the US Presidential text Alerts system to send fake messages.

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