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US gov’t will slap contractors with civil lawsuits for hiding breaches
In a groundbreaking initiative announced by the Department of Justice this week, federal contractors will be sued if they fail to report a cyber attack or data breaches. The newly introduced “Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative” will leverage the existing False Claims Act to pursue contractors and grant recipients involved in what the DOJ calls “cybersecurity fraud.” Usually,...
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Biden’s Pick for Top Antitrust Official Was a Star Corporate Lawyer
How Jonathan Kanter, the Biden administration’s choice to be the Justice Department’s antitrust chief, became a progressive foe of Big Tech.
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Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Key Takeaways From Week 5
Jurors’ eyes glazed over at detailed technical discussions as Theranos’s former lab director described repeated instances of irregular and inaccurate results.
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It’s Time to Stop Paying for a VPN
Many virtual private network services that were meant to protect your web browsing can no longer be trusted. Here are other ways.
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How to Fix Facebook
This is a pivotal moment in Facebook’s history. Here are suggestions for how to improve the company.
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Twitch Data Breach Could Be ‘Potentially Disastrous’
Included in the breach was a list that purportedly showed how much money each of the platform’s streamers had earned in the past two years.
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Twitch source code, creator earnings exposed in 125GB leak
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty Images) Live video broadcasting service Twitch has been hit by a massive hack that exposed 125GB of the company’s data. In a 4chan thread posted (and removed) Wednesday, an anonymous user posted a torrent file of the data dump. The dump contains the company’s source code and details of...
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Facebook Whistle-Blower Urges Lawmakers to Regulate the Company
Frances Haugen, who left the social network in May and leaked internal documents, gave senators rare insight into its inner workings.
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Facebook Is Weaker Than We Knew
A trove of leaked documents, published by The Wall Street Journal, hints at a company whose best days are behind it.