The legislation is designed to prevent the exploitation of voter data for online political targeting. …read more Source:: CNet

glowend shares a report: In a controversial first, a team of researchers have been creating embryos that are part human and part monkey, reports the Spanish daily El Pais. According to the newspaper, the Spanish-born biologist Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, who operates a lab at the Salk Institute in California, has been working with monkey…

Online card-skimming activities grew sharply this summer fueled by the availability of attack kits and other factors, Malwarebytes says. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The company said it remained confident that it had the right strategy, but sales are falling well short of expectations. …read more Source:: ZDNet

The NSA whistleblower took to Twitter to hint at anti-spying methods. …read more Source:: CNet

And with the president’s trade tweets, the Dow drops 250 points. …read more Source:: CNet

How does The Meatless Farm stack up to Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods? …read more Source:: CNet

Amid an ongoing heat wave, new data show the Greenland ice sheet is in the middle of its biggest melt season in recorded history. It’s the latest worrying signal climate change is accelerating far beyond the worst fears of even climate scientists. From a report: The record-setting heat wave that sweltered northern Europe last week…

The FCC now has the authority to punish robocallers originating outside the US, as well as, those perpetrating scams via text. …read more Source:: CNet

South Korea is the largest victim of card present data theft at a time when criminals are ramping up cyberattacks in the Asia-Pacific region. …read more Source:: DarkReading