TSA bans the use of TikTok on its official social media accounts
TSA becomes the latest government agency to ban TikTok over security concerns
Google warns against sideloading its apps on new Huawei devices
It says the practice is a security risk
US urges European countries to tap Nokia, Ericsson, and Samsung for their 5G needs
The trade war is still very much alive
Ring makes two-factor authentication mandatory
Will the additional security measures help with privacy concerns?
Text scams exploiting coronavirus fears see sharp rise in South Korea
There have been almost 10,000 virus-based smishing attempts in the country
DOJ charges Ohio man for running $300M Bitcoin-laundering operation
Helix reportedly laundered 350,000 Bitcoin in three years
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand proposes new government agency for internet privacy
The Data Protection Agency would investigate any mishandling of consumer data
Huawei to US: Look at your own history of spying before accusing us
It says the allegations against it are "impossible"
Macs saw almost double the number of malware threats than Windows PCs last year
According to Malwarebytes
CIA has been secretly selling encryption equipment in 120 countries through Crypto AG for decades
Documents describe it as the "intelligence coup of the century"
Ransomware attacks jumped 41% last year as average payments reached $190,946
Things will get worse before getting better
Google Chrome 82 will warn users about insecure downloads
The browser will eventually block all files downloaded over HTTP
Facebook was warned in advance about the security issue that led to the 2018 data breach
Employees think it could have been prevented
Justice Department indicts four members of the Chinese military for Equifax breach
A nine-count indictment
Researcher says millions of IoT and surveillance devices that use HiSilicon chips have a trivial backdoor
The Chinese giant has another hot potato on its hands
Researchers manage to leak data from a PC by manipulating its screen brightness
The technique focuses on exfiltrating sensitive info from physically isolated machines under camera surveillance
Google and YouTube want Clearview AI to stop scraping images and video for facial recognition database
It turns out the company that could do it the best is opposed to the practice
WhatsApp desktop app vulnerabilities led to remote file access, code execution
One discovery led to the next
Twitter fixes flaw in its API that allowed attackers to match users to their phone numbers
The social giant believes state-sponsored actors may have already used it
Nintendo hacker who leaked the Switch ahead of launch pleads guilty, hit with $260K fine and jail time
He also plead guilty to possession of child pornography
Iowa drops charges against security pros arrested for courthouse penetration testing
A win for the security industry
Avast axes marketing subsidiary following public outcry about selling user data to third parties
CEO says it's the right thing to do, but the plunging stock was probably key
Report reveals hackers infiltrated UN servers in Geneva and Vienna last year
Unpatched Sharepoint deployment was exploited to access dozens of servers across three offices