Amazon was just granted a patent for tracking Bitcoin transactions and selling the data to the government
Patent is for a Streaming Data Marketplace
Cambridge Analytica planned to offer its own cryptocurrency and offer it in an ICO
The coin would allow people to store their personal data online and then willingly sell it to advertisers
AdGuard reports that 20 million Chrome users have malware infected ad blockers
The extensions are clones of legitimate blockers with malicious code embedded
Cybersecurity Tech Accord: Major tech companies unite to fight cyberattacks
Apple, Amazon, and Twitter are noticeably missing though
Pornhub will now accept 'Verge' cryptocurrency as payment for Premium features
Pornhub is taking user privacy seriously
Intel Threat Detection tech offloads malware scanning to integrated graphics
Significantly lower CPU usage on main processing cores
Russia asks Google and Apple to remove Telegram from their app stores
Did it say please?
France is scared of Telegram, so they are making their own encrypted messaging app
Citing worries over snooping by Russian and US governments
US/UK agencies warn Russian hackers are compromising routers worldwide
The attacks have been tracked for about a year
Chinese police use facial recognition tech to identify suspect from crowd of 50,000
There's no hiding from this AI
Some Android phone makers have lied about having fully up to date security patches
Most phones studied suffer from 'patch gap'
Uber announces new safety-oriented app features for passengers
Uber is responding to passenger concerns
Some Android phone vendors aren't being honest about security patches
Missing patches that vendors claimed had been installed
Opinion: The new security reality
Tech-related security issues now affect everything and everyone in some way or other
Browsers begin to support new web standard for password-free authentication
Now available in Firefox, arriving in Chrome and Edge later this year
Facebook unexpectedly cripples third-party developers with security changes
Devs were only notified of API changes after they had taken effect
Delta Air Lines customer data compromised including payment information
Contractor hit with malware to steal transaction data
Facebook: most users have had their profile data scraped; Cambridge Analytica scandal affected 87 million
Will Facebook's privacy nightmare ever end?
Microsoft patches critical Malware Protection Engine flaw
An attacker could take control of a system and inflict all sorts of harm
Intel won't patch Spectre v2 flaw in older processors
Some legacy users will be left out in the cold
Facebook rolls out bulk app deletion tool to help you manage which apps have access to your data
Facebook wants to regain your trust
Panera Bread website vulnerability reportedly exposed 37 million customer records
Worse yet, they did nothing about it for eight months