2018 alone has seen billions of accounts hacked across a wide range of applications and services, proving once more that even the biggest Internet...
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Passwords in 2018 are as bad as ever, report shows
Every year, the fine gents at SplashData both entertain and horrify us with a list of the 100 worst passwords out there, hoping to kick our...
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Popular family tracking app exposed real-time location data onto the internet – no password required
More than 238,000 individuals users have had their family’s real-time location exposed for weeks on end after an app developer left sensitive data...
Internet users are increasingly distrustful when it comes to big companies collecting and selling their private data to advertisers and others. At the same...
Perhaps we should all change our Facebook passwords to play it safe, following news that Facebook kept, from as early as 2012, “hundreds of millions” of user...
Orange County in North Carolina suffered its third ransomware infection in six years, the local government announced on its website on Monday. The attack...
Google was fined almost €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion) by the European Commission for an antitrust violation, the legislative body announced. Labeled as “outright...
After getting fired from his job as a director of infrastructure services, a Statesville (NC) man decided to try an extort his employers by threatening to...
Norsk Hydro, one of the world’s largest producers of aluminium, says that it is battling an “extensive cyber-attack” that first hit its...
A new study conducted by AV-Comparatives, a well-respected independent testing agency, has closely examined whether 250 security products for Android...
Facebook Faces Criminal Investigation over Data Handling Partnerships Facebook’s troubles seem never-ending, as the company now faces a criminal investigation...
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