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• Australia's horrific new encryption law likely to obliterate its tech scene

  Australians are getting a lump of coal from the government for Christmas this year thanks to a new encryption law that could ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Google+ will die 4 months sooner thanks to new bug affecting 52 million users

  After announcing in October it would be shuttering Google+, its little-loved social media site, Google today announced that, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Mozilla and ThingsCon launch certification mark for secure IoT devices

  The Trustable Technology Mark is like the CE logo for IoT safety.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Top IoT messaging protocols are laughably insecure, Trend Micro research shows

  IoT is everywhere, and embarrassingly insecure.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Zoom bug let attackers hijack your screens during conference calls

  Videoconferencing is almost always terrible at the best of times, but can you imagine someone taking control of your screen during a meeting and sending inappropriate messages to the other attendees? Zoom patched this kind of vulnerability in the desktop app for its video chat service ...

  • Ivan Mehta

• 100m Quora users' data stolen by hackers

  Quora announced today that its Q&A platform was breached by hackers on November 30, and that approximately 100 million users' ...

  • Abhimanyu Ghoshal

• Starwood hacked with over 500 million customer details accessed

  This is bad.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Starbucks caves to prude pressure, bans porn on its free Wi-Fi

  Starbucks thinks it has finally found a way to prevent customers from using its free Wi-Fi to watch porn.

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• This company promises to recover files from your locked iPhone - but it won't help the FBI

  DriveSavers, a company known for its data recovery services, announced that it can offer "passcode lockout recovery service," ...

  • Vishwam Sankaran

• Uber fined €1M for 2016 data breach by Dutch and British privacy watchdogs

  The Dutch Data Protection Authority and UK's Information Commissioner's Office have fined Uber over €1M the company's data ...

  • Már Másson Maack

• Read this if you’ve got ‘nothing to hide’

  Boris is the wise ol’ CEO of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being an entrepreneur -- from managing ...

  • Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

• Details of 170,000 Pakistani debit cards leaked on dark web

  Last week, nearly 20,000 pakistani cards were on the dark web. Now, cybersecurity firm Group-IB has found out that a whopping ...

  • Ivan Mehta