A serious flaw in instant messaging service WhatsApp lets attackers remotely install surveillance software and spy on selected, high-profile targets...
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10 ways to deadbolt your Google account
2018 alone has seen billions of accounts hacked across a wide range of applications and services, proving once more that even the biggest Internet...
How to secure your cloud file storage with 5 simple tricks
File hosting / cloud storage services today are a dime a dozen. Players in this vertical constantly top each other with free storage offerings...
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A 33-year-old man from Sydney, New South Wales, could be sentenced to up to 10 years in jail after allegedly hijacking computers at his workplace to mine...
Earlier this month, San Francisco banned the use of facial recognition technology in police investigations, and now the UK is looking into the matter as a...
Artificial intelligence now comes to the aid of doctors and radiologists for more accurate diagnosis of lung cancer, writes The New York Times. According to a...
Don’t have your account hijacked. Secure your online accounts with more than a password, says Google
Research published at the end of last week argues that the typical user can significantly harden the security of their online accounts by linking a recovery...
Companies advertising ransomware recovery services often simply pay the attackers their ransom demand in exchange for the decryption keys, an investigation...
Suspected members of the GozNym cybercrime network have been charged in relation to the organised and automated theft of tens of thousands of people’s...
Have Huawei and affiliates been ostracized from the US for fear of cyberespionage? Casting foreign technology as a serious risk to national security, US...
Don’t believe “unhackable” claims. Especially in the hardware department. A portable storage drive marketed as unhackable has succumbed to the tech-savvy hands...
Just a few weeks after announcing it intends to expand by deploying carrier plans for 5G networks, Canadian telecom company Freedom Mobile has fallen victim to...
Local government agencies in San Francisco are prohibited from using facial recognition technology as a surveillance tool in criminal investigations for fear...