The Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) programme office, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the US Department of Defense (DoD) introduced a modernised health data sharing capability that enhances t...
The non-profit Tor Project announced that it was forced to lay off a significant part of its team responsible for the privacy-preserving Tor browser, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis. The organization has indicated having to lay...
According to the Business Insider, Facebook harvested the email contacts of 1.5 million users without their consent. This new privacy breach was revealed after a security researcher noticed that Facebook was asking some users to e...
The report by special counsel Robert Muller on Russian influence on the US presidential elections in 2016 was published in the redacted form on April 18. The document among other things describes steps taken by Russian military of...
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Ajit Pai ispublicly opposing the approval of China Mobile's applicationto provide telecommunication services within the USA. In his statement Pai raised concerns about na...
Amazon took a step towards internationalisation. The Amazon mobile app can now be switched to international shipping mode, which allows customers in markets where Amazon does not have a local presence to see products that can be s...
Estonian transport and communications companies in the e-commerce sector held meetings with partners in China to find opportunities to increase the transport of goods ordered online in e-commerce platforms through Estonia. Estonia...
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) -part of the Department of Commerce -has launched a'lightweight cryptography initiative' aimed to develop cryptographic algorithm standards to protect the data created b...
Chrome, Firefox and Opera, some among the most popular Internet browsers, appear to be vulnerable to a specific sort of phishing attack, cybersecurity-related websites reported. The vulnerability allows perpetrators to conduct a s...
Security firm Symantecreported that a worm initially discovered in October 2016, and which has infected tens of thousands of Internet of Things (IoT) devices so far, is actually helping improve the security of the infected devices...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hasupdated the Procedure for handling Whois conflicts with privacy laws (Whois procedure), making it easier for domain name registrars to request for a waiver from ce...
Facebook is facing criticism over a live video posted by one of its users, depicting his shooting of 74-year-old man. Critics point at the long time it took for the video to be removed, as well as the ways in which such videos enc...