security
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Wells Fargo Directs Employees to Delete TikTok, Citing Security Concerns
America’s fourth-largest bank, Wells Fargo, is barring the app TikTok on company devices and instructing any employees who have it currently installed to remove it immediately, citing privacy concerns.
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FCC Officially Designates Huawei and ZTE as Threats to U.S. Security
After months of rumblings from the Trump administration claiming the use of Chinese networking equipment posed a risk to the U.S., today the Federal Communications Commission officially designated both Huawei and ZTE as threats to national U.S. security.
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Nextdoor Drops ‘Forward to Police’ Feature After Rampant Concerns of Racial Profiling
The neighbourhood social networking platform Nextdoor dropped its “Forward to Police” feature this week, a widely panned function that’s faced years of criticism for purportedly facilitating racial profiling.
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Researchers Have Found a Way to Listen In On Your Conversations Using Light Bulb Vibrations
As if we didn’t have enough to be stressed about in 2020, researchers from the Cyber Security Labs at Ben Gurion University and the Weizmann Institute of Science have come up with a way to listen in on a room, even at long distances, using less than $US1,000 ($1,463) worth of equipment that’s able to…