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The confidential treatment records of tens of thousands of psychotherapy patients in Finland have been hacked and some leaked online.
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US President Donald Trump's administration has insisted on the need to ban TikTok due to national security concerns in a new court filing ahead of a plan to make the video app unavailable on November 12.
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Finland’s interior minister summoned key Cabinet members into an emergency meeting after possibly thousands of patient records at a private Finnish psychotherapy center were accessed by hackers now demanding ransoms.
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A database with information on virtually the entire US voting population has been circulated on hacker forums, opening up the potential for disinformation and scams.
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Former NSA contracted turned traitor and fugitive Edward Snowden has been granted permanent residency in Russia, his lawyer said.
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The German government Wednesday agreed to allow secret services to listen in on conversations via encrypted messaging services such as Messenger or Whatsapp as a means of tackling terrorism.
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The Kremlin on Tuesday denied US claims that Russian military intelligence was behind cyber attacks targeting Ukraine's power grid, the 2017 French election and the 2018 Winter Olympic Games.
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A problem that halted trading on the Paris stock market and others across Europe was a "middleware" issue and not a cyber attack, operator Euronext said Tuesday.
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Singapore will become the world's first country to use facial verification in its national ID scheme, but privacy advocates are alarmed by what they say is an intrusive system vulnerable to abuse.
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A Russian goes on trial in Paris Monday accused of having defrauded nearly 200 victims across the world of 135 million euros using ransomware.
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The UK's data privacy watchdog on Friday slashed a fine imposed on British Airways over a cyber attack after taking into account coronavirus fallout on the embattled airline's finances.
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Twitter was restored Thursday evening after a technical problem caused a global outage of nearly two hours on the social media platform used by hundreds of millions worldwide.
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Cyber warriors on NATO's eastern edge are warning that the growing number of people working from home globally due to the pandemic is increasing vulnerability to cyber attacks.
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Governments around the world are using the pandemic as a justification to expand surveillance and crack down on dissent online, resulting in a 10th consecutive annual decline in internet freedom, a human rights watchdog report said Wednesday.
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Finance ministers from the G7 industrialized countries expressed "concern" over the rise in "malicious cyber-attacks" in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, including some involving cryptocurrencies.
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Norway's government on Tuesday said that it believes Russia was behind an August cyber attack targeting the email system of the country's parliament.
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The "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance demanded that tech companies insert "backdoors" in encrypted apps to allow law enforcement agencies the access they say they need to police online criminality.
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Belgium's dominant telecom operator Proximus said Friday that it will gradually replace its equipment from the Chinese manufacturer Huawei with products from Finnish supplier Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson.
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The maker of a 'smart' male chastity device has recommended using a screwdriver to break them open after warnings they can be locked remotely by hackers.
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NATO needs a new strategic concept adjusted to the global rise of new technologies, terrorism and China to replace a plan developed a decade ago.
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A security flaw in an internet-connected male chastity device could allow hackers to remotely lock it -- leaving users trapped, researchers have warned.
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The EU's top court put limits on how European spy and security agencies could harvest troves of personal data, but said this could be done under a serious threat to national security.
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As yet unidentifed hackers have managed to steal employee salary payments at several Swiss universities, officials said Sunday.
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It could be the wackiest product yet from Amazon -- a tiny indoor drone which buzzes around people's homes as a security sentry.
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Data analytics firm Palantir, which has drawn fire over its law enforcement and national security work, made a low-key debut Wednesday on Wall Street at a hefty valuation of more than $20 billion.
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