Justice Department charges Google in antitrust lawsuit The suit alleges that Google uses anti competitive tactics to preserve a monopoly for its flagship search engine and related advertising business, maintaining its status as gatekeeper to the internet through an unlawful…

text Google offers details on Chinese hacking group that targeted Biden campaign Google on Friday offered new details on tactics used by alleged Chinese government-linked hacker group APT31 that has been targeting Joe Biden’s campaign using malicious code hosted on…

Security experts warn of Amazon Prime Day scams With Amazon Prime Day in full swing, security experts are warning of a deluge of phishing activity designed to capitalize on a major Amazon promotional event taking place this week, in this…

Google is giving data to police based on search keywords, court docs show Court records in an arson case show that Google gave away data on people who searched for a specific address. Unsealed court documents from the case found…

Paying ransomware ransom is now illegal, according to the Treasury Department In an official advisory, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) stated that organizations that facilitate ransomware payments to hackers on behalf of ransomware…

Covid tracking apps from Google-Apple partnership gaining traction in the U.S. Six months after the release of API technology built for hosting Covid-19 exposure alert apps on smartphones, 10 states plus Guam are making it available, giving contact tracing access…

TikTok’s latest court win means videos still available – for now A federal judge on Sunday granted a preliminary injunction against a Trump administration order to ban the viral video app TikTok from U.S. app stores, in a reprieve for…

China’s biggest chip maker hit by US sanctions The US Department of Commerce has stated that companies that export to Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) would now need a license, out of concern that SMIC posed an “unacceptable risk” of…

Maze ransomware adopts Ragnar Locker virtual machine approach The people behind Maze ransomware are now distributing payloads through virtual machines as a method for getting around endpoint defenses. According to researchers with Sophos Managed Threat Response, the threat actors were…

Trump approves Oracle’s TikTok deal, delays app store ban The deal involves the creation of a new company called TikTok Global and a $5 billion payment in new tax dollars to the U.S. ostensibly in the form of a new…