privacy and security
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Huawei Has About a Month Before It Runs Out of Smartphone Chips
The Trump administration’s sanctions are hitting Huawei hard, and the Chinese tech giant now says it will run out of processors chips for its smartphones by September without access to U.S. venders, according to a weekend Associated Press report.
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This Is Why Half the Internet Shut Down Today
Scores of websites and services went down Friday afternoon due to problems with Cloudflare’s DNS service, sparking rampant speculation about the cause. After all, a global DDOS attack would totally fit the real-life apocalypse movie that 2020 is increasingly turning into.
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A New Flaw Means You Can’t Let Your Thunderbolt Laptop Out Of Your Sight
There’s plenty of reasons not to leave your laptop unattended, but a Dutch researcher has found yet another. With just a screwdriver and five minutes alone with your computer, a hacker could potentially take advantage of your Thunderbolt port to read and copy all your data—regardless of whether it’s encrypted, locked, or set to sleep.
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Report: U.S. Officials Are Using Mobile Phone Data To Respond To The Coronavirus Outbreak
The U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has teamed up with state and local governments across America to track people’s mobile phone location data and trace the novel coronavirus’s spread, according to a new Wall Street Journal report.