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Cybercrime is on the rise. What can we do to protect ourselves?

Cybercrime is on the rise. What can we do to protect ourselves?

In just the last couple of months, cybercriminals have hacked several U.S. companies using different types of ransomware, paralyzing a petroleum pipeline, compromising a meat manufacturer, delaying ferry operations between Massachusetts’ mainland and Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket, and even targeting K-12 schools. Wednesday, host Kerri Miller talked to two cybersecurity experts about cyber threats, the risks of corporate hacking, what can be done to prevent them and what can be done to protect those who are most vulnerable.
by Kerri Miller and Ariana Rosas

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New device taps brain signals to help stroke patients regain hand function

New device taps brain signals to help stroke patients regain hand function

After a stroke, people often lose dexterity in one hand. Now, the Food and Drug Administration has authorized a device that can restore function by encouraging the brain to rewire.
by Jon Hamilton

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Apple iPhones can soon hold your ID. Privacy experts are on edge

Apple iPhones can soon hold your ID. Privacy experts are on edge

Privacy experts worry the convenient feature will open the door to surveillance, data tracking, and Apple possibly turning interactions involving state-issued IDs into a new revenue stream.
by Bobby Allyn

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Detectives just used DNA to solve a 1956 double homicide. They may have made history

Detectives just used DNA to solve a 1956 double homicide. They may have made history

It's one of the oldest criminal cases cracked with the new DNA technology. The murders of teen sweethearts Lloyd Duane Bogle and Patricia Kalitzke in Montana had gone unsolved for more than 60 years.
by Sharon Pruitt-Young

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U.S. drops Trump order targeting TikTok, plans its own review

U.S. drops Trump order targeting TikTok, plans its own review

The White House dropped Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with software applications tied to China.
by The Associated Press

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Global glitch: Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage

Global glitch: Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage

Multiple websites went offline briefly across the globe Tuesday after an outage at the cloud service company Fastly, revealing how critical a handful of companies running the internet's plumbing have become.
by The Associated Press

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Largest meat producer getting back online after cyberattack

Largest meat producer getting back online after cyberattack

The world’s largest meat processing company is getting back online after production around the world was disrupted by a cyberattack just weeks after a similar incident shut down a U.S. oil pipeline.
by The Associated Press

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