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The U.S. will issue a warning that China is planning to steal research on possible coronavirus vaccines via cyber attacks, the New York Times reported on Sunday. China is actively seeking “valuable intellectual property and public health data through illicit means related to vaccines, treatments and testing,” a draft of the warning by the FBI and …

Zoom has reached a deal with New York regulators to better protect users from “Zoom-bombing” and other security problems. The Thursday pact with the state attorney general’s office marks the videoconferencing company’s latest effort to address mounting concerns about the security and privacy of its platform, which has become a crucial tool during the coronavirus …

Representative Michael McCaul, who has harshly criticized China in his position as the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, disclosed that his family owns stock in a Chinese tech company he described as a threat to national security. An April 20 periodic transaction report showed that McCaul disclosed a February purchase of between $50,000 …

A US cryptocurrency investor on Thursday sued a suburban New York high school senior, accusing the 18-year-old of being the mastermind and ringleader of a cybercrime scheme that defrauded him out of millions of dollars in digital currencies. The plaintiff, Michael Terpin, accused Ellis Pinsky, of Irvington, NY, and his alleged co-conspirators of stealing $23.8 …

Zoom Video Communications on Wednesday named former White House National Security Adviser HR McMaster to its board and hired the policy chief of one of the tech world’s big lobby groups to drive governmental relations as it poured more money into improving its image on security. Jonathan Kallmer, who takes over as head of Global …

Apple is hitting back against a report claiming that a flaw in its iOS email app may have compromised its famously hard-to-hack iPhones for years. Apple said in a Friday statement to The Post that it has found “no evidence” to back up the report earlier this week from cybersecurity company ZecOps, which claimed hackers …

The iPhone’s email app may be making Apple’s notoriously un-hackable gadget vulnerable to cybercriminals, a new report says. High-tech cybercriminals have found a way to exploit a flaw in Apple’s software and gain access to targets’ phones by simply sending an email — regardless of whether the recipient opens the email or not, according to …

Corporations are exposing our 5G security to the Chinese Communist party. The societal implications of 5G — on how we live and how we work — are truly mind-boggling. And so is the capacity to abuse that power. Let’s be totally clear: anything connected to an unsecured 5G network will be a potential weapon that …

Shares of Zoom fell more than 7 percent on Monday afternoon trading, adding to their sharp declines in the past few days, as the video conferencing app battles privacy concerns and increased competition from deep-pocketed rivals. The stock had surged to a record high in March as demand for the app skyrocketed with millions of …

Thousands of recorded Zoom video calls have been left exposed on the web, including one-on-one therapy sessions, elementary school classes and even a Brazilian waxing class, according to a new report. The video conferencing platform — which has seen its popularity explode during the coronavirus epidemic — has cut corners with its recording tool, and …