Alex Stamos
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Oracle wins bid for TikTok in US after Microsoft offer rejected
- Technology
- September 14, 2020, 09:23
ByteDance has reached a preliminary “technical partnership” agreement with Oracle for TikTok’s US operations that does not include a full sale of the (...)

Young Scientist winner Shane Curran (20) raises $16m for start up firm
- Technology
- May 21, 2020, 12:45
Young Scientist winner Shane Curran has raised $16 million (€14.5 million) from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley investment for his data pr(...)

Zoom boosts encryption to quell safety concerns as users top 300m
- Technology
- April 23, 2020, 08:04
Zoom Video Communications said on Wednesday it was upgrading the encryption features on its video conferencing app to quell safety concerns as its use(...)

Child abuse: How and why tech companies look the other way
- Health & Family
- November 10, 2019, 11:01
The two sisters live in fear of being recognised. One grew out her bangs and took to wearing hoodies. The other dyed her hair black. Both avoid lookin(...)

Facebook suing Israeli company over ‘WhatsApp spyware’
- Technology
- October 30, 2019, 06:49
Facebook is suing the Israeli hacker-for-hire company NSO Group for allegedly targeting some 1,400 users of its encrypted messaging service WhatsApp w(...)

Facebook pledges tough security efforts ahead of US elections
- Technology
- July 25, 2018, 07:11
Facebook is using a range of techniques including artificial intelligence to counter Russian operatives or others who use deceptive tactics and false (...)

Facebook removes 270 accounts linked to Russian ‘troll factory’
- Technology
- April 4, 2018, 07:43
Facebook said on Tuesday that it had found and removed more than 270 accounts and pages controlled by Russia’s Internet Research Agency, the so-called(...)

Twitter security chief to leave to cofound startup
- Technology
- March 22, 2018, 07:25
Twitter’s chief security officer Michael Coates is stepping down from his role, announcing on the social media platform that he will leave the company(...)

This week we’re talking about. . . Yahoo
- Technology
- October 5, 2016, 12:03
What’s Yahoo done now? Fresh on the heels of the revelation that some 500 million Yahoo accounts had been compromised, the company is facing an even (...)

Yahoo ‘secretly scanned customers emails’ for US
- US
- October 4, 2016, 21:02
Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information provided by US i(...)