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WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram Outage Caused by Problem in Company's Domain Name System
WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram faced outages that like occurred because of a problem in the company’s domain name system.
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After $610 Million Crypto Heist, Hacker Has Job Offer From His Victim
The hacker claimed the attack against the PolyNetwork platform -- which lets users swap tokens across multiple blockchains -- was an act of "hacking for good" to "save the project."
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NRIs Struggle To Help Homeland India 'Gasping For Air'
Jaspreet Rai is desperately trying to do her part for the country she left more than 30 years ago: help its people breathe.
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Clubhouse Chats Get Breached as a User Streams Audio Feeds From Multiple Rooms, Raising Security Concerns
A week after popular audio chatroom app Clubhouse said it was taking steps to ensure user data couldn’t be stolen by malicious hackers or spies, at least one attacker has proven the platform’s live audio can be siphoned.
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Twitter's Security Problems Included Broad Access To User Accounts
Twitter Inc has struggled for years to police the growing number of employees and contractors who have the ability to reset users' accounts and override their security settings, a problem that Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey and the board were warned about multiple times since 2015, according to former employees with knowledge of the company's ...
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Google, Industry Try to Water Down First US Data-Privacy Law
Google and its industry allies are making a late bid to water down the first major data-privacy law in the US.
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Cleared Of Lewd Act Charge, Startup CEO Wants $100 Million In Damages
It was October 2017 and Jaffer, founder of a promising mobile ad startup, was suddenly arrested and charged with a series of crimes, including assault and sexual abuse. His company, Vungle Inc., promptly dismissed him.
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TCS, Accused Of Favouring Indians Over Americans, Cleared By US Court
A jury in California rejected claims that Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has discriminated for years against American workers in favor of staffing its US offices with Indians.
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The Difficult Choice That Reunited Immigrant Families Face In The US
Escaping gruesome violence at the hands of police and gangs in Honduras, a mother and her daughter arrived in the U.S. on June 8 near McAllen, Texas, and turned themselves in to federal agents. They were then separated and held in custody 1,555 miles apart, according to court filings.
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Trump's Travel Ban 3.0 Seen As 'Bulletproof', Appeals Well-Considered
President Donald Trump's litany of derogatory comments about Muslims before the election might still be enough to sink his latest attempt at a travel ban, although immigration advocates will have a tougher time persuading judges to block it, legal experts say.
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Man Called Cyberattack Hero Faces Charges He Created Malware
The self-taught computer-security researcher credited with stopping a devastating cyberattack in May was arrested on charges that he created malware used to hack banking systems in Canada and Europe, the U.S. said.
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Uber Accused Of 'Rape Denialism' By Delhi Survivor
A peculiar theory at Uber Technologies Inc. that an Indian competitor may have framed the company for a headline-grabbing rape in India in 2014 already has contributed to the ouster of at least two executives at the ride-hailing giant.
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GM Accused In Owner Lawsuit Of Using VW-Like Defeat Devices
General Motors Co. was sued for allegedly putting defeat devices in trucks to beat emissions tests, making it the fifth carmaker to be accused of diesel cheating since Volkswagen AG admitted in 2015 to flouting pollution rules.
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Who Will Pay For San Francisco's $750 Million Tilting Tower?
Nina Agabian, a retired director of research in global health science at the University of California, bought a 29th-floor apartment in San Francisco's Millennium Tower in 2010. "It was supposed to be a wonderful building," she said in January, sitting in a leather chair in the building's vast, low-lit, owner's-club level. "For many of us, who left...
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Microsoft Asserts Clients' Rights in FBI Email Searches Fight
Microsoft drew support from tech leaders including Apple, Google and Amazon.com when it sued the Justice Department in April.
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WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram Outage Caused by Problem in Company's Domain Name System
WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram faced outages that like occurred because of a problem in the company’s domain name system.
-
After $610 Million Crypto Heist, Hacker Has Job Offer From His Victim
The hacker claimed the attack against the PolyNetwork platform -- which lets users swap tokens across multiple blockchains -- was an act of "hacking for good" to "save the project."
-
NRIs Struggle To Help Homeland India 'Gasping For Air'
Jaspreet Rai is desperately trying to do her part for the country she left more than 30 years ago: help its people breathe.
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Clubhouse Chats Get Breached as a User Streams Audio Feeds From Multiple Rooms, Raising Security Concerns
A week after popular audio chatroom app Clubhouse said it was taking steps to ensure user data couldn’t be stolen by malicious hackers or spies, at least one attacker has proven the platform’s live audio can be siphoned.
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Twitter's Security Problems Included Broad Access To User Accounts
Twitter Inc has struggled for years to police the growing number of employees and contractors who have the ability to reset users' accounts and override their security settings, a problem that Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey and the board were warned about multiple times since 2015, according to former employees with knowledge of the company's ...
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Google, Industry Try to Water Down First US Data-Privacy Law
Google and its industry allies are making a late bid to water down the first major data-privacy law in the US.
-
Cleared Of Lewd Act Charge, Startup CEO Wants $100 Million In Damages
It was October 2017 and Jaffer, founder of a promising mobile ad startup, was suddenly arrested and charged with a series of crimes, including assault and sexual abuse. His company, Vungle Inc., promptly dismissed him.
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TCS, Accused Of Favouring Indians Over Americans, Cleared By US Court
A jury in California rejected claims that Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has discriminated for years against American workers in favor of staffing its US offices with Indians.
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The Difficult Choice That Reunited Immigrant Families Face In The US
Escaping gruesome violence at the hands of police and gangs in Honduras, a mother and her daughter arrived in the U.S. on June 8 near McAllen, Texas, and turned themselves in to federal agents. They were then separated and held in custody 1,555 miles apart, according to court filings.
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Trump's Travel Ban 3.0 Seen As 'Bulletproof', Appeals Well-Considered
President Donald Trump's litany of derogatory comments about Muslims before the election might still be enough to sink his latest attempt at a travel ban, although immigration advocates will have a tougher time persuading judges to block it, legal experts say.
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Man Called Cyberattack Hero Faces Charges He Created Malware
The self-taught computer-security researcher credited with stopping a devastating cyberattack in May was arrested on charges that he created malware used to hack banking systems in Canada and Europe, the U.S. said.
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Uber Accused Of 'Rape Denialism' By Delhi Survivor
A peculiar theory at Uber Technologies Inc. that an Indian competitor may have framed the company for a headline-grabbing rape in India in 2014 already has contributed to the ouster of at least two executives at the ride-hailing giant.
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GM Accused In Owner Lawsuit Of Using VW-Like Defeat Devices
General Motors Co. was sued for allegedly putting defeat devices in trucks to beat emissions tests, making it the fifth carmaker to be accused of diesel cheating since Volkswagen AG admitted in 2015 to flouting pollution rules.
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Who Will Pay For San Francisco's $750 Million Tilting Tower?
Nina Agabian, a retired director of research in global health science at the University of California, bought a 29th-floor apartment in San Francisco's Millennium Tower in 2010. "It was supposed to be a wonderful building," she said in January, sitting in a leather chair in the building's vast, low-lit, owner's-club level. "For many of us, who left...
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Microsoft Asserts Clients' Rights in FBI Email Searches Fight
Microsoft drew support from tech leaders including Apple, Google and Amazon.com when it sued the Justice Department in April.
