Articles in the Security Category
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Kind of ironic when you think about it
Cheeky scammers are offering prospective marks an application that supposedly shields them from exposure to survey scams.…
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Cybercrime gang allegedly raked in $16m
Russian police have arrested 10 suspected members of a ransomware gang who allegedly made millions via a locked computer malware scam.…
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Tripping the light fantastic
Security researchers using hardware hacking techniques have unearthed generic flaws in supposedly ultra-secure quantum cryptography systems.…
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And then there were nine
A man accused of being one of the most prolific sellers of credit-card data has been charged with participating in the brazen hack of RBS WorldPay in 2008 that funneled about $9.4m out of the payment processor in just 12 hours.…
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Tower data protected by Fourth Amendment
A federal magistrate has ruled that information pulled from cellphone towers provides such an intimate portrait of a customer’s life that government investigators must get a warrant before obtaining it.…
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It was simply resting in their account
Scammers who made off with $600,000 after breaking into the bank account of a Catholic diocese claim the funds have been earmarked for the victims of paedophile priests.…
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Wrap up
Industrial conglomerate 3M has agree to buy biometric security firm Cogent Systems in a deal valued at $943m.…
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‘No offence disclosed’
A computer scientist who exposed serious vulnerabilities in India’s electronic voting machines was released on bail over the weekend after seven days in police custody.…
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Getting punked by 9-year-old parameter
A security researcher has unearthed a “bizarre” flaw in Apple’s QuickTime Player that can be exploited to remotely execute malicious code on Windows-based PCs, even those running the most recent versions of operating system.…
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Torrent of spam choked
Security researchers have disrupted the botnet known as Pushdo, a coup that over the past 48 hours has almost completely choked the torrent of junkmail from the once-prolific spam network.…