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Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk : NY AG report on cryptocurrency trading platforms finds many are vulnerable to market manipulation, refers some to regulator for potential legal violations   —  The New York Office of the Attorney General (OAG) has released a report on cryptocurrency trading platforms, finding that many are vulnerable …

Mashable There's no going back now: YouTube fully commits to vertical video with new ad format Mashable According to the company, “more than 70 percent of YouTube watch time happens on mobile devices” and because of that YouTube acknowledges “it's important to adapt to their viewing behaviors.” Companies and brands will now have the option to upload ... and more »

After Microsoft and Facebook, now Symantec, too, offers free security tools for election officials and midterm candidates.

The latest government data breach affected State Department employee emails. On September 7th, workers were notified that their personally identifiable information was obtained by an unnamed actor, according to a recent report from Politico. It appar...

Mashable The most popular dating sites in the UK, just in time for cuffing season Mashable Match.com places itself as one of the industry leaders in the matchmaking category due to the unique features of their fully developed mobile app. The guys and girls at Match are continuously improving their matching algorithm, incorporating user ... and more »

Mashable The most popular dating sites in the UK, just in time for cuffing season Mashable Match.com places itself as one of the industry leaders in the matchmaking category due to the unique features of their fully developed mobile app. The guys and girls at Match are continuously improving their matching algorithm, incorporating user ... and more »

Researcher finds XSS vulnerabilities in iframe busters, scripts that power expandable ads that grow and cover a large area of the page.

Updated: The data theft is the work of Magecart, a group connected to attacks against British Airways and Ticketmaster.

Government Payment Service Inc -- the company thousands of local governments in the US use to accept online payments for everything from court-ordered fines and licensing fees -- has compromised more than 14 million customer records dating back to 20...

Symantec is the latest private security company to offer its expertise to vulnerable political targets on the house. Today the company announced that it would extend its “ Project Dolphin ” service (dolphins eat phish, get it?) to political campaigns, candidates and election officials, all “prime targets for malicious actors seeking to influence the outcome of the upcoming U.S. midterm elections.” The service allows for anyone to run a check on their own website to make sure no illegitimate or “spoofed” versions of it are floating around and luring unsuspecting victims. Individuals in those qualifying groups can sign up for free for Project Dolphin, Symantec’s AI-powered system that scans for and notifies users of illegitimate websites pretending to be the real thing — just one flavor of the common hacking technique called “spoofing.” Through spoofed sites, much like spoofed email accounts, hackers can steal login credentials and other sensitive data and wreak whatever kind of havoc they want, much like they did with the DNC prior to the 2016 US presidential election. The company will also offer some educational services on a new dedicated election security site , including best practice for poll workers and election officials, anti-tampering training, and an election security news hub. Whether the intended audience for these materials and services will actually take note of them remains to be seen, but cobbling together election security guides now could help smooth the path to more secure elections by 2020. “The issues that plagued the 2016 election are still prevalent today and are likely to continue to persist through the midterm elections, into 2020, and into elections globally,” Symantec CEO Greg Clark said. “It is important for all parties, public and private, to contribute to protecting the security and integrity of our elections and democracy.” While it’s quite late to the game — at least for 2018 midterms — Symantec joins a number of security companies that have extended free or deeply discounted services to candidates and election bodies, including Cloudflare , Valimail and Synack . This is what Americans think about the state of election security right now

At least ten operators of Pegasus spyware have deployed the malware outside their country's border, new Citizen Lab report finds.

Nilay Patel / The Verge : iPhone XS and XS Max review: terrific display, great speakers, and long battery life, but expensive, very good camera but not great, portrait mode a hit or miss   —  Solid updates to a winning formula  —  Last year, Apple did something out of character: it introduced the usual update to the iPhone …

South China Morning Post : How China is working to expand industrial robot usage tenfold to 1.8M units, 70% of which to be made in China, up from 30% currently, by 2025   —  In the second report in a series, He Huifeng and Celia Chen look at how Beijing's ambitious industrial plan aims to break China's reliance …

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