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PSA: Don’t give out your phone number for Facebook 2FA, use an app instead
It's no secret that Facebook doesn't respect your privacy in the least: we learned last October that the company used the phone number you provided for two-factor authentication to enable advertisers to target you. Last week, Emojipedia's Jeremy Burge highlighted in a tweet that ...
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2.7 million patient calls to Swedish healthcare hotline left unprotected online
2.7 millions audio recordings of calls made to 1177 Vårdguiden were left online without any authentication or encryption. ...
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Google’s new extension tells you if your passwords have been compromised
Google's just launched a Chrome browser extension that's designed to help protect your online accounts from intruders. Hopefully, ...
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Blockchain researchers are still finding critical vulnerabilities in EOS
2019 has barely started and Block.one has already handed out $50,750 worth of bug bounties to researchers who found kinks ...
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This week's Facebook-Google-Apple drama, explained
With so much happening in the tech world, this week feels like it’s 21 days long. The highlight of the week has been the ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
