The Army Bans TikTok

The Army Bans TikTok

Happy New Year! Well, it was for a day or two, anyway. But after the US assassinated Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike, experts warned that the likely retaliation could include disruptive cyberattacks, along with more traditional strikes. It's an alarming start to the year, especially as tensions continue to escalate.


Elsewhere in the world, TikTok released its first transparency report this week, including the surprising and perhaps unlikely assertion that the Chinese government hadn't requested any user information from the viral app in the first half of 2019. A similar-sounding app called ToTok turned out to be an alleged spy app from the United Arab Emirates. And we took a look at the military lessons of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Chaos is king!


We also got retrospective, cataloging decade's most dangerous people on the internet and its worst hacks. It was also the decade that email scams leveled up, turning into a multibillion dollar industry.

And that's not all! Every Saturday we round up the security and privacy stories that we didn’t break or report on in-depth but think you should know about nonetheless. Click on the headlines to read them, and stay safe out there.

Speaking of TikTok! The US Army closed out the year by banning TikTok on government phones, citing it as a "cyber threat." The Navy has taken the same step, following Pentagon guidance to "uninstall TikTok to circumvent any exposure of personal information." This doesn't me ..

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