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VSAP Tally 1.0, a new open source vote-counting system by LA County gets final...

The Election officials in Los Angeles County gave final approval, last Tuesday, to a new system of counting ballots, named “Voting Solutions for All...
Google’s Protect your Election program

Google’s Protect your Election program: Security policies to defend against state-sponsored phishing attacks, and...

With more and more attacks happening via emails and hackers intruding into presidential elections and still influencing various ongoing campaigns, Google has recently shared...
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Jack Dorsey to testify explaining Twitter algorithms before the House Energy and Commerce Committee

House Energy and Commerce Committee announced that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey will testify before the committee regarding Twitter algorithms and content monitoring. The hearing...

DC Airport nabs first imposter using its newly deployed facial recognition security system

The initial apprehension to having facial recognition technology is beginning to move on to acceptance as the incident at the D.C airport stands witness...
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6 artificial intelligence cybersecurity tools you need to know

Recently, most of the organizations experienced severe downfall due to an undetected malware, Deeplocker, which secretly evaded even the stringent cyber security mechanisms. Deeplocker...
Cyber security news - 25 April 2018

Facebook, Twitter takes down hundreds of fake accounts with ties to Russia and Iran,...

"Authenticity matters and people need to be able to trust the connections they make on Facebook." -Mark Zuckerberg After Facebook announced last month that it had...

Mozilla, Internet Society, and web foundation wants G20 to address “techlash” fuelled by security...

The Mozilla organization, Internet Society, and the web foundation have spoken out about the current “techlash” that is posing a strong risk to the...

Intel faces backlash on Microcode Patches after it prohibited Benchmarking or Comparison

Intel has introduced microcode updates for mitigating the recently disclosed speculative execution vulnerabilities known as ‘Foreshadow’ a.k.a the L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF). These microcode...
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Facebook bans another quiz app and suspends 400 more due to concerns of data...

Facebook today revealed that it has banned another quiz app, myPersonality, over concerns of data misuse. This step was taken after they did not...
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Facebook is reportedly rating users on how trustworthy they are at flagging fake news

Amidst the allegations surrounding Facebook on fake news, Facebook is now reportedly working on a scale to rate user trustworthiness. According to a report...

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Facebook unfriends Twitter. Cross-posted tweets on Facebook disappear temporarily.

Following Facebook’s move to restrict cross-posts from other platforms earlier this month via changes to its API platform, many users noticed their old Twitter...

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