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2017-05-25 11:14:28 |
YouTube, Twitter and Facebook face curbs on hate speech videos (lien direct) |
Europe moves a step closer to limiting the spread of extremism and toxic content via social platforms |
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2017-05-24 16:44:32 |
News in brief: drones could be hobbled; cost of ransomware counted; Target agrees $18.5m deal (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-24 16:08:44 |
Police swoop on gang that planted banking Trojan on 1m phones (lien direct) |
The Cron gang's malware was infecting some 3,500 Android devices every day - and siphoning money out of 60 accounts every day |
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2017-05-24 14:25:21 |
LastPass\'s new cloud backup option – sunny skies or a brewing storm? (lien direct) |
Cloud backup for the password manager's Authenticator certainly reduces the hassle for users - but it's a security compromise |
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2017-05-24 11:22:34 |
Hacked Twitter account spits out poison – make sure yours isn\'t next (lien direct) |
Salem State University was horrified when its account was taken over and used to spout racist venom - how could they have prevented it? We've got some advice |
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2017-05-23 17:37:38 |
News in brief: Dubai launches its first robocops; Samsung woes over iris recognition; IoT security criticised (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-23 14:49:13 |
Digital watermark leads police straight to Bollywood pirates (lien direct) |
Digital signing led police to the would-be extortionists - a welcome turnaround for the movie industry after a run of thefts |
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2017-05-23 12:40:56 |
Man jailed for stealing images and details from more than 50 women (lien direct) |
When someone like this is caught and jailed it's a sobering reminder to check our own digital footprint - here are some tips to help you secure your information |
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2017-05-23 10:30:10 |
Warning after WannaCry sets off fake BT phishing attack (lien direct) |
It's a sad fact that we end up seeing warnings about warnings in the aftermath of a major cybersecurity event |
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Wannacry
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2017-05-22 17:54:54 |
News in brief: Bitcoin price bubbles up; Uber uses AI to boost its take; WannaCry \'hero\' censures tabloids (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-22 16:56:20 |
Yes, Geek Squad can search your files and hand you over to the police (lien direct) |
Judge rules images found on a defendant's hard drive inadmissible - but bats away contention that he had an expectation of privacy when he passed his PC to Geek Squad |
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2017-05-22 15:52:41 |
After WannaCry, EternalRocks digs deeper into the NSA\'s exploit toolbox (lien direct) |
WannaCry may be behind us, but fears that the crooks might create new malware from the NSA's stash of exploits seem to be coming true |
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Wannacry
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2017-05-22 15:38:10 |
Judge demands cellphone passwords from social media star (lien direct) |
Hencha Voigt and her partner Wesley Victor were unable to unlock their phones despite the judge's order - and the case highlights some inconsistencies in the law |
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2017-05-22 13:31:10 |
GDPR is just a year away: here\'s what you need to know (lien direct) |
Time is running out - are you ready for GDPR? We've got some guidance for you |
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2017-05-22 12:13:14 |
What does Twitter think you\'re interested in? Now you can find out (lien direct) |
Twitter has tweaked its settings so that you can see what it thinks you're interested in so that advertisers can target you |
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2017-05-22 10:07:47 |
ATM heists: 27 arrested as police move against \'black box\' attacks (lien direct) |
Thieves have used a number of ways to get at cash in ATMs over the years - this latest involves old-fashioned vandalism of the machines |
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2017-05-19 17:43:38 |
News in brief: twins fox bank\'s voice security; FCC moves on net neutrality; torrent site closes (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-19 15:47:21 |
WannaCry: could something similar happen to Android? (lien direct) |
If WannaCry blazed through Windows machines like wildfire, how safe are Android devices from ransomware? |
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Wannacry
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2017-05-19 13:54:56 |
Walk this way: how you roll could become how you log in (lien direct) |
Combining biometrics and wearable technologies opens up new possibilities for future multi-factor authentication systems |
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2017-05-19 10:42:23 |
Google wants to share your photos with your nearest and not-dearest (lien direct) |
Say cheese! You'll need to be extra-vigilant that Google's machine-learning doesn't share your photos with the wrong people |
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2017-05-18 17:51:05 |
News in brief: 17m passwords stolen from Zomato; laptop ban from EU shelved; hackers target MPs (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-18 14:49:49 |
Have you inadvertently joined a Trump-supporting robot army? (lien direct) |
If your data was exposed in one of two recent breaches, there's a good chance your details have been used by an army of bots to support the proposals to end net neutrality |
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2017-05-18 12:07:29 |
Facebook is losing the fight against the spread of fake news (lien direct) |
How can you work out what's true and what's not in the torrent of stories on Facebook when the platform itself can't reliably flag up a fake story? |
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2017-05-17 17:31:38 |
News in brief: warning on extending laptop ban; telecom customers alerted; watchdog opens data probe (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-17 15:35:41 |
How Big Fuzzing helps find holes in open source projects (lien direct) |
Google's beta project, OSS-Fuzz, has found 264 vulnerabilities in 47 open-source projects - so is it an idea whose time has come? |
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2017-05-17 13:14:06 |
Cryptocurrency-mining malware cashes in on NSA exploit that enabled WannaCry (lien direct) |
WannaCry continues to hit headlines, but it's not the first piece of malware to make use of the NSA's EternalBlue exploit |
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2017-05-17 11:35:57 |
Brooks Brothers reveals theft of payment card details (lien direct) |
Retailer suggests 'unauthorized individual' was behind the breach - and says it's now resolved |
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2017-05-16 23:25:32 |
WannaCry: the ransomware worm that didn\'t arrive on a phishing hook (lien direct) |
Email doesn't seem to have been the initial vector for WannaCry, which initially took hold in south-east Asia |
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Wannacry
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2017-05-16 17:55:34 |
News in brief: Depp film stolen by hackers; Facebook fined again; social media blocked in Ukraine (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-16 17:07:47 |
Hospitals rapped for sharing 1.6m patient records with Google (lien direct) |
Passing the patient records to the Google-owned company to help it build a health app as 'inappropriate', warns watchdog |
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2017-05-16 14:06:35 |
FTC launches crackdown on tech support scammers (lien direct) |
Scammers get away with stealing an average of $290 - don't be their next victim. Here's our advice on how to spot them and avoid them |
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2017-05-16 11:15:28 |
Sleep trackers: more of a data nightmare than a data dream? (lien direct) |
Do you drift off each night with an app? Take what it says with a pinch of salt, says the researcher who tried out 10 of them |
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2017-05-15 17:42:36 |
News in brief: United cockpit codes leaked online; WhatsApp fined; Netflix pulled from rooted phones (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-15 16:30:59 |
WannaCry: here\'s what we know now about the outbreak (lien direct) |
As the dust settles after Friday's outbreak, things are becoming clearer and it seems this was an unsophisticated use of a sophisticated tool |
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Wannacry
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2017-05-15 15:54:57 |
The Windows worm is back – and this time it\'s serious (lien direct) |
Worms are a malware tactic from back in the day - but they still remain tricky to mitigate against |
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2017-05-15 11:46:22 |
Who\'s targeting you on Facebook? A browser extension wants your data (lien direct) |
But hang on - what happens to the data the campaign collects via its Chrome extension to learn more about election ads on Facebook? We asked the founders |
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2017-05-14 21:12:15 |
WannaCry benefits from unlearned lessons of Slammer, Conficker (lien direct) |
We've been here before with malware - so why was WannaCry able to cause such havoc around the world? |
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2017-05-12 21:15:36 |
Wanna Decrypter 2.0 ransomware attack: what you need to know (lien direct) |
Security experts are firefighting the global outbreak of ransomware that is apparently exploiting a recently patched flaw in Windows |
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2017-05-12 17:00:02 |
Soldiers sent hate-SMS messages from rogue base stations (lien direct) |
The culprit exploits a design feature of older 2G networks in a type of man-in-the-middle attack |
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2017-05-12 11:17:37 |
Man who padded timesheets fined $318,000 for trashing boss\'s servers (lien direct) |
His strategy: pad the payroll program with extra hours, in black letters, on a black background, in 1-pt type, then demolish the server. |
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2017-05-11 17:32:23 |
Google won\'t fix Android \'contentjacking\' flaw for months (lien direct) |
Google Play is a bit like a happening nightclub: the faster you let people in, the less time you have to spend keeping troublemakers out. |
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2017-05-11 16:41:49 |
News in brief: laptop ban could be extended; DDoS hits news sites; Taiwan might block Google DNS (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-11 15:19:12 |
Would you like a side of facial recognition with your pizza? (lien direct) |
Oslo pizza joint's menu includes facial recognition so that it can serve up gender-specific ads - meat to the men, salad to the women |
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2017-05-11 13:04:57 |
Unhappy 39th birthday, spam, and many unhappy returns (lien direct) |
As computing reaches middle age, expect to see more of these kinds of anniversaries |
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2017-05-11 11:02:39 |
One more way to get busted on the Dark Web (lien direct) |
Tor users suspected of child abuse imagery may have visited an outside file-sharing service - simply because Tor is so slow at routing traffic |
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2017-05-10 17:52:34 |
News in brief: Game of Thrones tells cast to use 2FA; Cisco flaw patched; Windows 10 on 500m devices (lien direct) |
Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news |
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2017-05-10 17:00:17 |
Minority Report in Chicago as police aim to stop crime before it happens (lien direct) |
As gun crime in Chicago reaches record levels, police claim that it's having an impact on crime prevention, but civil rights campaigners are less convinced |
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2017-05-10 16:27:10 |
How to hack a Jeep Cherokee – but don\'t try this at home, kids (lien direct) |
Carmakers are going to have to get much better at securing their vehicles now that the researchers who demonstrated how to hack a Cherokee Jeep added their notes to the tools already online |
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2017-05-10 13:11:09 |
The Google Play apps that say they don\'t collect your data – and then do (lien direct) |
Our researchers have found more than 50 apps in Google Play that contain XavirAd, which says it doesn't collect your personal information and then promptly sucks it up and sends it back to the mothership |
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2017-05-10 10:54:58 |
Military \'revenge porn\' investigation leads to 21 felony cases (lien direct) |
Despite facial recognition and other technology, it's still a gruelling cat-and-mouse game for investigators |
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