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Japanese officials will target millions of IoT devices to help secure the Olympics
Hack (a bit of) the planet!
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Everybody hates cybersecurity professionals
Infosec has an image problem.
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The FBI says its photo analysis is scientific evidence. Scientists disagree.
At the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, a team of about a half-dozen technicians analyzes pictures down to their pixels, trying to determine if the faces, hands, clothes or cars of suspects match images collected by investigators from cameras at crime scenes. The unit specializes ...
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773 million email addresses have been leaked – check if yours is on the list
We’re just over two weeks into 2019, and one of the biggest data leaks in recent years has surfaced. Today, renowned security researcher Troy Hunt reported a massive leak consisting of 773 million unique email IDs and 21 million unique passwords, which he refers to as Collection ...
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Keep your digital life secure with these 6 simple tricks
Data breaches, widespread malware attacks, and microtargeted personalized advertising were lowlights of digital life in 2018. As technologies change, so does the advice security experts give for how to best stay safe. As 2019 begins, I’ve pulled together a short list of suggestions ...
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200 million Chinese resumes leak in huge database breach
Last night, HackenProof published a report stating that a database containing resumes of over 200 million job seekers in China was exposed last month. The leaked info included not just the name and working experience of people, but also their mobile phone number, email, marriage ...
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We need an ‘AI sidekick’ to fight malicious AI
“Now that we realize our brains can be hacked, we need an antivirus for the brain.” Those were the words of Yuval Noah Harari, famous historian and outspoken critic of Silicon Valley. The sentence, which was part of a recent interview by Wired’s Nick Thompson with Harari ...
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Hackers take over Chromecasts to warn owners about security risks
A couple of dutiful hackers have been hijacking thousands of Chromecasts to warn users the devices can be taken over remotely. ...
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Twitter let someone promote an obvious PayPal phishing scam
How did this slip through the cracks?
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China hacked the US Navy and stole personal info on at least 100K sailors
The US Department of Justice today unsealed documents pertaining to the Chinese state-sponsored hacking group APT 10's years-long ...
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This is the future of authentication, according to security experts
Passwords may not have been much of an annoyance back in the 1960s, when they were first believed to have been introduced ...
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Starwood breach affecting 500M users reportedly part of a larger Chinese state-sponsored attack
The New York Times reports that the Starwood breach was part of a larger state-sponsored intelligence-gathering effort spurred ...
