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Firefox to start blocking ad-tracking by default

Mozilla has announced plans to tweak Firefox's privacy controls so that advertising trackers will be blocked by default.

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‘Sick sadist’ admits to trolling dead people on social media

He was intoxicated while posting about high-profile tragedies involving the death of young people, adding torment to families' grief.

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Chrome: Flash is almost, almost, almost dead

If you use Google's Chrome browser, after 4 September, the latest update will make it even harder to use in-browser Adobe Flash.

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Possible Satori botnet hacker indicted by Feds

A 20 year-old man has been indicted for computer crimes by a federal court in Alaska. Evidence suggests that he could be linked to the Satori botnet that exploited a previously unknown bug in a Huawei router.

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Google quietly bought Mastercard credit and debit card records

The multimillion dollar data buy allows Google to link what we buy in brick-and-mortar stores to what ads we clicked online.

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Monday review – the hot 19 stories of the week

From Google's “unnecessary risk” for Fortnite users and NSA leaker Reality Winner jailed to the Celebgate hacker going to jail, and more!

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Proposed US law would require President to act against overseas hackers

A US senator has announced a bill that would force the President to punish overseas hackers found targeting the US, or explain why he hadn't.

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Jennifer Lawrence nude photo thief is going to the slammer

George Garofano has been sentenced to prison for his part in hacking into and stealing personal images from 240 iCloud accounts.

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Forcing iPhone unlock violates Fifth Amendment, says Court of Appeals

Police want to unlock the iPhone of a woman who accused a man of rape after it was alleged that she was actually stalking him.

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How one man could have pwned all your PHP programs

Popular PHP package repository front end Packagist turned out to have an embarrassing command injection hole - now closed!

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Air Canada resets 1.7 million accounts after app breach

Air Canada has been forced to issue a password reset for all 1.7 million users of its Android, iOS and BlackBerry mobile app after up to 20,000 accounts were compromised by hackers last week.

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Why Yahoo scanning user email is no cause for panic

The Wall Street Journal yesterday published an unsettling report that the owner of Yahoo, Verizon subsidiary Oath, has been quietly analysing the emails of its 200 million users to sell to advertisers.

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Chinese hotel chain’s customer data on Dark Web – 500M records for $50K

You often have to share a lot of personal information when you check into a hotel - as cybercrooks know only too well.

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Hacked stalking app reveals victims’ photos, texts and location info

Another mobile stalking app has been hacked, endangering both its customers and the victims that they spy on.

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Football team drops the privacy ball with email Cc blunder

But at least now you know how to get in touch with people who might have an extra ticket...

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Instagram fights misinformation and account hijackings with new tools

Users will soon be able to use authenticator apps for 2FA codes, request blue verified badges, and get more context about big accounts.

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And you you thought you were safe behind your laptop screen…

Modern LCD screens don't spew out electronic emissions like the old "tube" displays - but apparently they make telltale noises instead.

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Facebook: It’s too tough to find personal data in our huge warehouse

GDPR: it means give users their data when they ask for it, and Facebook's refusal to do so has provoked an inquiry by the Irish DPC.

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Tumblr outlaws creepshots and deepfake porn

The blogging site wants to go back to a simpler time, where, it says, people were a lot nicer ... and didn't glorify gore and upskirting.

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Google created “unnecessary risk” for Fortnite users, claims Epic boss

Google disclosed the bug "in order to score cheap PR points", said Epic CEO and founder Tim Sweeney,

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Listening Watch sounds out security idea with websites that listen

Listening Watch, a project based on earlier work by researchers Prakash Shrestha and Nitesh Saxena, uses the power of sound to log you into your favourite websites.

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