With paper and phones, Atlanta struggles to recover from cyberattack
Atlanta's top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day cyberattack that plunged the metropolis into technological chaos and forced some city workers to revert to paper. On an Easter and Passover holiday ...
Facebook Inc. said on Wednesday it would end its partnerships with several large data brokers who help advertisers target people on the social network, a step that follows a scandal over how Facebook handles personal information. The world's largest social media company is under pressure ...
Anyone tempted to #DeleteFacebook after the personal data of millions of users fell into the hands of a political consultancy is still likely to be monitored by the social network, which tracks nearly 30 percent of global website traffic. And Google, in various guises, shadows ...
An Atlanta cyberattack has caused widespread city-run program outages and raised fears about the security of financial and personal data belonging to government workers, residents and others who have used online services provided by Georgia's capital city, officials said on Friday. Among the services affected ...
U.S. spending bill includes bid to solve international email privacy impasse
A federal spending bill released late on Wednesday included bipartisan legislation that would amend a decades-old privacy law to clarify that a U.S. warrant seeking data stored overseas is valid in certain circumstances. The provision, known as the Cloud Act, seeks to resolve a long-running ...
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said on Tuesday in response to a lawsuit that it does not search electronic devices of air travelers for content. The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit last week seeking ...
Japanese researchers seek to read Mario Draghi's poker face to predict European Central Bank policy
If European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi appears slightly more downbeat at his regular news conference than before, it could foreshadow a possible move by the bank to trim its monetary policy stimulus. That's the conclusion of two Japanese researchers who have used artificial intelligence ...
Olympics hack highlights emerging 'false flags' threat: researcher
The "Olympic Destroyer" computer virus used to attack last month's Pyeongchang Winter Games was embedded with forged code to make investigators believe the attack was done by hackers linked to North Korea, Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported Thursday. Discovery of the effort to insert a fake ...
German government shores up defenses after cyberattack breaches foreign ministry network
Germany's government was marshaling its defenses on Thursday against a powerful cyberattack that lawmakers said had breached the foreign ministry's computer network and whose origins were unclear. The head of a parliamentary oversight panel said the attack was continuing, and security officials were trying to ...
Japan's budget for AI to be less than a fifth of that planned by U.S. and China
At less than 20 percent of the U.S. and Chinese budgets, Japan’s tepid investment in artificial intelligence may worsen its ability to compete in the red-hot field.
Apple moves to store iCloud keys in China, raising rights concerns
When Apple Inc. begins hosting Chinese users' iCloud accounts in a new Chinese data center at the end of this month to comply with new laws there, Chinese authorities will have far easier access to text messages, email and other data stored in the ...
Education ministry to introduce new compulsory subjects at high schools in Japan
The education ministry released a draft Wednesday of revised curriculum guidelines for high schools, including the introduction of rekishi sōgō (comprehensive history) and kōkyō (public affairs) as new compulsory subjects. New comprehensive history courses will cover the modern and contemporary history of both Japan and ...
