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Chrome 79 includes anti-phishing and hacked password protection

Version 79 of Chrome is out, and it promises to do a better job of protecting you against phishing sites and credential stuffing attacks.

Thinking of giving a young person an internet-connected ‘smart’ toy this Christmas? You may want to think again.

Ad-blocking technologies can block the cookies that record consumers’ privacy choices, they claim.

The Council of the European Union sent a memo summarizing its thoughts on the “need to mitigate security risks linked to 5G”.

Delete the data, and don’t do any of that again, the FTC told the data analytics company, which already filed for bankruptcy in 2018.

The $1.1m settlement is an “excellent result,” TikTok said, unsurprisingly: compared with its $5.7m FTC fine, it’s dirt cheap.

Collecting children’s data without their guardians’ consent is illegal under COPPA and already earned TikTok a huge fine.

It’s about showing age-appropriate content, it said. Though staying safe from child-privacy lawsuits doesn’t hurt, either.

Former Dutch city council member Mitchel van der K invaded hundreds of iCloud accounts “frequently and repeatedly”.

Yodel’s mobile parcel delivery app was leaking people’s delivery data to others using the app, a security researcher discovered.