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ICE is paying an Israeli security company $30M to break into phones
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has expanded its partnership with Israeli digital forensics firm Cellebrite, ...
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US court says scraping a site without permission isn't illegal
An appeals court situated in California, US, today said it’s not illegal to scrape data from public websites without any ...
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Google purges 24 malware-ridden apps that were downloaded 500,000 times
A new malware campaign called Joker targeting Android has been found to engage in ad fraud at least since early June 2019. ...
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Texas says no to ransom demand as it recovers from a 'coordinated ransomware attack'
Texas officials have said that none of the municipalities impacted by the crippling ransomware attack last month have yielded ...
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Over half a million active GPS trackers have '123456' as default password
Researchers have found serious security vulnerabilities in over 600,000 GPS trackers that may have exposed users data, including ...
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Twitter suspends SMS feature after CEO Dorsey's account was hi-Jack-ed
Twitter has temporarily suspended the ability to tweet via SMS following high-profile hack of its CEO Jack Dorsey and a number ...
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Hackers are now attacking Android users with advanced SMS phishing techniques
Researchers have uncovered a new kind of "advanced" phishing attack targeting Android phones that tricks users into installing ...
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Pirated textbooks & essays are full of malware
But if you're broke, what other choice do you have?
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Surveillance campaign targeting Uyghur Muslims affected not just iOS, but Android too
The Uyghur community has been targeted as part of a large-scale surveillance operation via "strategically compromised websites" ...
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French travel site Option Way leaks 100GB worth of customer details
A report published today by security research firm VPNMentor suggests its team found 100GB of unsecured customer data from ...
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XKCD forum goes offline after discovery of data leak affecting 562K members
The popular XKCD forum has been taken offline after personal information of more than 562,000 members was exposed online. ...
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Fraudsters deepfake CEO's voice to trick manager into transferring $243,000
Criminals use commercially available voice-generating AI software to impersonate the boss of a German company to steal funds. ...
