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<p>Personal email accounts are more vulnerable to hackers than professional ones, a Google executive warns.&nbsp;</p>

Google warns politicians to protect their personal accounts, too

Phishing attacks are targeting personal, as well as professional, accounts.

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Midterm elections, social media and hacking: What you need to know

Hackers and propagandists are a threat to US elections. Here's how the US government and tech giants like Facebook and Twitter are working to stop them from interfering with the vote.

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<p>Apple CEO Tim Cook wants Bloomberg to retract its story. </p>

Tim Cook wants Bloomberg to retract its spy chip story

Bloomberg had reported that China infiltrated hardware of Apple, Amazon and others in a mass surveillance campaign. Apple has denied the report.

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<p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange addresses the media from the balcony of the Embassy of Ecuador in London in 2017.</p>

Wikileaks' Julian Assange sues Ecuador for violating his 'rights and freedoms'

He's been living at the country's embassy in London since 2012.

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Campaign 2018: Artificial intelligence is automating attacks on political campaigns

Google and Microsoft are helping political campaigns defend themselves against hackers using automated attacks.

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<p>An image of 3D printed items from the research paper.&nbsp;</p>

Researchers find way to track 'untraceable' 3D-printed guns

The 3D-printer leaves a hardware fingerprint.

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Ring's redesigned Stick Up Cams want a spot inside your home

The Ring Stick Up Cam Wired and Stick Up Cam Battery are the first indoor cameras for the Amazon brand.

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Facebook reportedly believes spammers were behind massive hack

Security breach exposed personal information for 29 million users.

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<p>How secure is your DNA?</p>

In the future, not even your DNA will be sacred

Commentary: Even if you haven't shared your DNA with a genealogy website, chances are you're identifiable now. (Spoiler: Your third cousin sold you out).

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Apple's privacy portal now lets US customers download their data

The company has already made the portal available in Europe.

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<p>Rick Osterloh, Google's senior vice president of hardware, talks about the Titan M security chip at the Pixel 3 event last week.</p>

For the Pixel 3, Google is betting on a chip to bring Android security

The chip is a variation of what Google uses to protect its data centers.

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Here's how to find out how much data Apple has about you

The company claims it doesn't keep much about its users, and now you can check for yourself.

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