On Wednesday California adopted the strictest privacy law in the United States. …read more Source:: Threatpost

Ross LaJeunesse said he tried to form the program after learning of Google’s “Dragonfly” censored search project for China. …read more Source:: CNet

If a patent application hints at a production design, it’ll be mighty useful. …read more Source:: CNet

That rivals Black Friday pricing on the popular virtual reality viewer. …read more Source:: CNet

Faster is the new slower where payments are concerned at Black Horse (Down) bank UK banking giant Lloyds is having a mare of a 2020 as its systems fell over for the second day running today.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

Some payment cards were mistakenly swiped on order-entry systems that lacked the security of its point-of-sale terminals. …read more Source:: DarkReading

Dollars lost and data records exposed are valuable measurements, but the true pain of a cybersecurity incident goes far beyond that. We asked infosec pros how they put words to the pain they feel when their defenses fall apart. …read more Source:: DarkReading

The U.S. Army this week has banned TikTok from government-owned devices as scrutiny over the platform’s relationship with China grows. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The Pacific nation of Palau has become the first country to ban sun cream that is harmful to corals and sea life. From a report: From Wednesday, sun cream that includes common ingredients, including oxybenzone, is not allowed to be worn or sold in the country. Palau’s President Tommy Remengesau said: “We have to live…

Making something that has to get into others’ hands involves solving a lot of different problems, many of which have nothing at all to do with actually building the dang things. [Conor Patrick] encountered them when he ran a successful Kickstarter campaign for an open-source USB security key that was not only shipped to backers,…