China’s new salvo in TikTok war means restrictions on AI technology exports New restrictions, unveiled Friday by China’s ministries in charge of commerce, science and technology, restrict technologies such as text analysis, content recommendation, speech modeling and voice-recognition from being…

You can teach a Qbot new tricks The banking trojan Qbot was initially discovered in 2008, but a new report from Check Point Research finds that it has become a “swiss-army knife” of malware, continuously developed to expand its capabilities.…

Facebook warns Apple privacy changes will decimate ads When iOS 14 hits iPads and iPhones in September, advertisers should expect weaker performance, Facebook claims. Apple claims that it’s making the changes to its user-tracking Identifier for Advertisers to better protect…

Epic judge will protect Unreal Engine — but not Fortnite Epic Games has won a partial victory against Apple thanks to a temporary restraining order that forbids Apple from terminating Epic’s developer accounts or restricting use of Epic’s Unreal Engine…

Application Guard for Office is now in public preview Microsoft released Application Guard for Office in public preview. This automatically opens files from untrusted sources in a secure container that is isolated from the device through hardware-based virtualization, and automatically…

TikTok plans to sue Trump administration over U.S. ban TikTok has confirmed plans to sue the Trump administration as early as this week over the executive order that bans U.S. transactions with the app and its owner, ByteDance. The executive…

Former Uber security chief charged with paying hush money to conceal breach Federal prosecutors have charged Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former chief security officer, with paying hackers $100,000 to keep quiet about a 2016 data breach that affected 57 million users…

Guardicore Labs discovers a previously unknown botnet Security researchers at Guardicore Labs announced the discovery of what they believe to be a previously undiscovered botnet. Dubbed FritzFrog, the botnet uses propriety code to infect SSH servers with in-memory payloads, then…

Oracle enters race to buy TikTok’s US operations Oracle has become the latest contender to purchase TikTok, following President Trump’s promise to shut it down unless it is taken over by a US company by mid-November. Oracle is working with…