Security
Siemens contractor pleads guilty to planting logic bomb in company spreadsheets — ZDNet
Logic bomb would crash spreadsheets after a certain date, resulting in Siemens hiring the contractor to fix the latest bugs, writes Catalin Cimpanu.
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Data of ‘nearly all adults’ in Bulgaria stolen — BBC
Personal data belonging to millions of Bulgarians has been stolen in a cyber-attack on the country's tax agency, says the report.
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Google has “terminated” its project to build a search engine for China — MIT Tech Review
Google executive Karan Bhatia testified at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday that it has ended the program, writes Charlotte Jee.
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FaceApp responds to privacy concerns — TC
FaceApp confirms that most of the processing needed to power its app’s beautifying/gender-bending/age-accerating/-defying effects are done in the cloud, writes Natasha Lomas.
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Microsoft warns 10,000 customers they’re targeted by nation-sponsored hackers — Ars Technica
Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has notified almost 10,000 customers in the past year that they’re being targeted by nation-sponsored hackers, writes Dan...