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Sources detail FBI's IDLE program to help companies fight data theft by deploying decoy data to hide real data from hackers and insider threats (Sean Gallagher/Ars Technica)

Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: Sources detail FBI’s IDLE program to help companies fight data theft by deploying decoy data to hide real data from hackers and insider threats  —  Newly surfaced doc outlines FBI’s IDLE program—which teases thieves with “decoy data.”  —  The Federal Bureau of Investigations is in many ways … Sources detail

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US Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices citing a cybersecurity threat, will block devices with the app from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet (Reuters)

Reuters: US Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices citing a cybersecurity threat, will block devices with the app from the Navy Marine Corps Intranet  —  (Reuters) – Earlier this week the United States Navy banned the social media app TikTok from government-issued mobile devices … US Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices citing

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Sources: Walmart is considering selling data on shoppers, "supercenters" where, in addition to traditional retail, it can rent out edge computing capacity, more (Sarah Nassauer/Wall Street Journal)

Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Walmart is considering selling data on shoppers, “supercenters” where, in addition to traditional retail, it can rent out edge computing capacity, more  —  Walmart is betting on a future where its giant stores will quickly get groceries to your door … Sources: Walmart is considering selling data on

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A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO (BuzzFeed News)

{$inline_image} BuzzFeed News: A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO  —  This August, Molly Stillman logged on to her lifestyle blog to update a few popular old posts, freshening them up so they would continue to attract traffic from

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A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO (BuzzFeed News)

BuzzFeed News: A look at the global trade in hacked links, where hackers compromise websites and charge to add links to sites to improve SEO  —  This August, Molly Stillman logged on to her lifestyle blog to update a few popular old posts, freshening them up so they would continue to attract traffic from Pinterest

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Forbes estimates that the highest paid YouTube star of 2019 is Ryan Kaji, an eight-year-old with 23M subscribers, who has earned $26M this year (Madeline Berg/Forbes)

Madeline Berg / Forbes: Forbes estimates that the highest paid YouTube star of 2019 is Ryan Kaji, an eight-year-old with 23M subscribers, who has earned $26M this year  —  Anastasia Radzinskaya is an unlikely media star.  Born in southern Russia with cerebral palsy, her doctors feared she would never be able to speak. Forbes estimates

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