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TikTok Ban: Texas is Fourth State to Join; Indiana Sues

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states have now banned TikTok on government workers’ devices. Plus, Indiana has sued the app’s owner. The post TikTok Ban: Texas is Fourth State to Join; Indiana Sues appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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North Korean IT Workers Are Infiltrating Tech Companies

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Plus: The Conti ransomware gang shuts down, Canada bans Huawei and ZTE, and more of the week’s top security news.

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Microsoft Edge’s ‘Super Duper Secure Mode’ Does What It Says

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Plus: Facebook account hacks, Instagram-ban scammers, and more of the week’s top security news.

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BrakTooth Flaws Affect Billions of Bluetooth Devices

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Plus: A spyware ban, a big WhatsApp fine, and more of the week's top security news.

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Microsoft new ChatGPT to address all privacy concerns

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Readers should note the fact that the announcement came just when a few of its corporate users like Samsung and countries like Italy and Germany issued a ban on the use of the machine learning-powered tool due to a fear of data leaks to third parties and state-funded hackers.

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Mozilla banned hundreds of malicious Firefox add-ons over the last weeks

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Mozilla is intensifying the efforts to protect its users, in the last couple of weeks, the security staff has banned 200 malicious Firefox add-ons. Over the past two weeks, Mozilla has reviewed and banned 197 Firefox add-ons because they were executing malicious code. Mozilla banned 14 Firefox add-ons ([ 1 ] , [ 2 ]. [

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Is Artificial Intelligence Making People More Secure? Or Less?

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In May of this year, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) agreed to adopt a blanket ban on the use of remote biometric identification (facial recognition) in public spaces along with predictive policing tools as part of the EU's AI Act. I believe the ban is a mistake that's being fueled by fears about AI.