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U.S. State-Government Websites Use TikTok Trackers, Review Finds
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Hello. More than two dozen state governments have placed web-tracking code made by TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd. on official websites, according to a new report from cyber company Feroot Security.
The situation with so-called tracking pixels illustrates the difficulties U.S. regulators face in curtailing data collection by the popular Chinese-owned app. Read the full story.
Meanwhile, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew plans to offer a series of broad promises on platform safety and security at a much-anticipated congressional hearing on Thursday, according to his testimony.
Also today:
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Mastercard buys cyber company
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Maritime logistics firm hit by ransomware
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PHOTO: THOMAS WHITE
/REUTERS
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Seattle-based Oleria raised $8 million in seed funding led by Salesforce Ventures and Tapestry VC. Oleria provides identity management technology. (SecurityWeek)
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PHOTO: JULIE JACOBSON
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Happening Thursday: Stephen Swick, chief security officer at American Electric Power Co., is due to testify at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Natural and Energy Resources about cybersecurity in the power industry. Dragos Inc. CEO Robert Lee and Puesh Kumar, who leads cyber, emergency and security work at the Energy Department, also plan to speak. Tune in at 10:00 a.m. ET.
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Maritime logistics company recovering from ransomware incident. Royal Dirkzwager B.V., based in the Netherlands at the Port of Rotterdam, said it has restored most systems shut down after a ransomware attack early this month. The Play hacking group claimed responsibility for the strike and has threatened to publish business and personal information it said it took from the company. (SecurityWeek)
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New from WSJ Pro Research:
Cybersecurity and the Board
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In collaboration with the National Association of Corporate Directors, a new report shares data on oversight of cybersecurity risk, relationships between the board and management and how directors are preparing for upcoming U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rules.
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PHOTO: JASON ALDEN
/BLOOMBERG NEWS
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Google wants a London court to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses it of privacy violations in its collection of data about 1.6 million patients. The company received the data in 2015 from the U.K.'s National Health Service to use at Google's DeepMind AI unit. Google said the patients didn't suffer harm, according to a legal filing. (Reuters)
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