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AT&T's recent mega customer data breach — 74 million accounts affected — laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the data is there for the hacking. On Thursday, a startup called Cape — based out of Washington, D.C., and founded by a former executive from Palantir — is announcing $61 million in funding to build what it claims will be a much more secure approach: It won't be able to leak your name, address, Social Security num...

Cape will be focus on providing eSIMs to users, which would be sold essentially on a prepaid format to avoid the data that a contract might entail.

Seemingly everyone is beginning to pay more attention to Washington’s efforts to regulate AI.

Lobbying outlays by the advocacy arm of George Soros’ Open Society network began to pick back up over the first half of this year.

New documents filed with the DOJ this week offer an inside look at how<b> Hikvision</b>’s hired guns in Washington sought to help the company head off U.S. sanctions.

Kevin Mandia, Chief Executive Officer, FireEye, Inc. Bradford L. Smith, President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft Corporation Documents

SolarWinds hearing announced by House committees On Feb. 26, execs from Microsoft, SolarWinds and FireEye will testify on the role of private companies in preventing and investigating cyberattacks. Listen - 01:54 Two House committees are holding a hearing on the SolarWinds attack. James Martin/CNET The US House committees on homeland security and on oversight and reform will host a hearing on the SolarW...