It looks like Facebook is going to get a hefty fine for the data breach earlier this week. Possibly the social network would have to pay a fine of $1.63 billion for the leak that may have hacked fifty million accounts. Earlier this week Facebook reported that the accounts of up to fifty million peop... Read more
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Last weekend, Facebook announced that, in the event of a security problem, the data of almost fifty million users had been captured. It is not yet entirely clear how the hack exactly took place, but it has to do with a vulnerability in the way the View as function works. In a blog, Guy Rosen, vice p... Read more
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Blue Origin, the space company of Amazon-CEO Jeff Bezos, now also sells rocket motors. The rocket maker United Launch Alliance has announced that it has chosen the company's BE-4 rocket motor for its new Vulcan Centaur rocket. In doing so, Bezos' company defeated the better-known Aerojet Rocketdyne,... Read more
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Elon Musk is being sued by the American stock exchange watchdog. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has reached this decision in response to messages from Musk on Twitter. There he said he wanted to take Tesla off the scholarship. This had an impact on the share price and it is possible th... Read more
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Representatives of a number of large tech companies appeared before an American Senate committee. They talked about data privacy and concerns about consumer protection. Google sent his new privacy chief Ketih Enright to the hearing, and he received several questions about the rumors that Google is w... Read more
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Google had a pretty negative press last weekend due to a login feature it had added to Chrome 69 without warning. This criticism has been heard and immediately taken up, because from Chrome 70 users can choose whether they want to make use of it or not. During the weekend it turned out that people w... Read more
4 years ago
Due to an error in a Twitter API, a number of private messages from some users may have been made available to third party developers. The error was in the Account Activity API (AAAPI), which allows developers to create services for companies to communicate with customers. The error has been present... Read more
4 years ago
Google is strongly criticized for a feature that has recently been enabled on the web browser Chrome. Users who have Chrome 69 or newer and log in to a Google service are also automatically logged in to the web browser. It's an update that Google hasn't released and one that has serious consequences... Read more
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The Canadian data firm AggregateIQ (AIQ) has the dubious honour of being the first to receive a GDPR warning. The British Information Commissioner Office (ICO) accuses the company of processing people's data for purposes they did not expect. According to the BBC, AIQ has protested and is appealing a... Read more
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Red Hat was unable to meet analysts' expectations when presenting its quarterly results. As a result, the value of the company's shares fell by 7 percent. Red Hat turned in the second quarter of this year's sales of $ 823 million. However, the expectations are lower and higher. Analysts assumed a t... Read more
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