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Amazon can't explain why Alexa recorded and shared a private conversation
A Portland couple says Alexa secretly recorded them, then sent that recording to a random person on their contact's list. ...
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Trump abolished the Cybersecurity Coordinator position. Maybe he'll build a huge (fire) wall
The Trump administration appears to have an aversion to anything put in place during its predecessor's presidency. The latest ...
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US Department of Justice probes cryptocurrency manipulation
It appears that the pumpers and dumpers of the cryptocurrency community are in for trouble. The US Justice Department and ...
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Why Proof-of-work isn't suitable for small cryptocurrencies
It seems that proof-of-work (PoW), the consensus protocol behind Bitcoin, isn't ideal for smaller cryptocurrencies, because ...
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Database leak exposes personal records of nearly 1 million South Africans
Barely a year after South Africa's largest data leak was revealed in 2017, the country has suffered yet another data leak ...
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PassProtect warns Chrome users when their username or passwords get pwned
Data breaches happen all the time. When they do, it's invariably bad, with countless people ensnared. The MySpace breach, ...
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Dashlane study: people are still terrible at making secure passwords
No, iloveyou isn't a good password.
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Hackers exploit Verge blockchain vulnerabilities to steal over $1.7M — again
Anonymous cryptocurrency Verge can’t seem to catch a break. It appears that hackers have again exploited the vulnerabilities ...
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YubiKey's new iOS SDK lets developers bring hardware 2FA to their apps
The YubiKey NEO now plays nice with iOS.
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Microsoft, Intel, and Google disclose another Spectre-like CPU flaw
2018 started off on a sour note with the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre chip-level security flaws, which could be ...
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LA County data leak exposes personal information of callers to crisis and abuse line
UpGuard cyber security super-sleuth Chris Vickery found an AWS bucket configured for public access belonging to the LA County ...
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GDPR laws force promising blockchain service to shut down
Many feared that the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law might spell trouble for fledgling businesses ...
