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Governments to declare war on mathematics and dumb criminals

It is too late for a reasonable person to think the proliferation of end-to-end encryption can be stopped, and yet it appears a collection of Western governments are determined to see how much blood they can get from this particular stone. For anyone interested in protecting their communications, a quick Google search will reveal a […]

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​Artificial intelligence and privacy engineering: Why it matters NOW

As artificial intelligence proliferates, companies and governments are aggregating enormous data sets to feed their AI initiatives. Although privacy is not a new concept in computing, the growth of aggregated data magnifies privacy challenges and leads to extreme ethical risks such as unintentionally building biased AI systems, among many others. Read more

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Trump’s silence on Russian hacking hands Democrats new weapon

Democrats are uniting behind a simple message about Russian hacking during the 2016 election: Donald Trump doesn’t care. Even as the president lashes out at the series of Russia-related probes besieging his administration, Democrats say Trump has yet to express public concern about the underlying issue with striking implications for America’s democracy — the digital

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Hack attacks highlight vulnerability of Florida schools to cyber crooks

  Two months before the U.S. presidential election, international hackers slipped into the computer systems of at least four Florida school district networks in the hopes of stealing the personal data of hundreds of thousands of students. They infected the systems with malware — malicious software — that turned off the logs recording who accessed

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Buckle confirms it suffered a credit card breach!

The Buckle, Inc. is a United States fashion retailer selling clothing, footwear, and accessories for men and women. The company operates 465 stores in 44 U.S. states. The company recognized malware on certain retail store location point-of-sale (POS) systems. The malware obviously was created to steal payment card information (account number, account holder’s name, and expiration

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