cybersecurity
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In Ironic Twist, Founder of Cyber Fraud Prevention Startup Gets Arrested on Fraud Charges
That headline sounds like the set-up to a joke, I know, but 2020 has proven time and time again that you can’t make this shit up anymore.
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Oracle’s Bid for TikTok Is Down to the Wire and Also a Huge Mess
The Trump administration’s efforts to strong-arm Beijing-based ByteDance into selling its U.S. subsidiary TikTok to an American company are closing in, with enterprise software giant Oracle attempting to get regulators to clear a deal. Unsurprisingly, everyone involved is really making a garbage fire out of it.
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Prison Phone App Exposes Millions of Inmate Messages and Personal Data
As many incarcerated individuals are having their visiting privileges restricted due to the global pandemic, Telmate’s Getting Out app has become one of the only options that families separated by incarceration have to keep in touch. But according to research published today, hundreds of millions of intimate messages from many millions of inmates were sitting…
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Walmart Wants to Get Its Greasy Hands on TikTok
The uncool bidders for extremely cool video app TikTok now reportedly include, uh, American retail chain, Walmart.