Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked sensitive information to the Intercept last year, was sentenced to 63 months in prison last week along with three years of supervised release.
Lees meerThe murder took place long before the World Wide Web, but Facebook turned up both the killer and his sons, who had witnessed the crime.
Lees meerThe Muslim American wants assurances that the data - including photos of her not wearing a hijab - are deleted.
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Lees meerThe third most popular mobile network in the US, T-Mobile, has suffered a data breach affecting more than two million of its customers.
Lees meerThe DoJ announced arrests, charges and guilty pleas as part of Operation Darkness Falls, which involved several government agencies.
Lees meerApple last week suggested that Facebook remove its Onavo security app from the App store due to privacy rule violations. On Wednesday, Facebook complied.
Lees meerA fake login page turned out to be a test phishing attack from the Michigan Democratic Party, which hadn't told the DNC or the ISP about it.
Lees meerAn OpenSSH bug that was reclassified as a vulnerability after it was fixed has made scary headlines - but the sky isn't falling
Lees meerAdobe's issued an urgent fix for two critical vulnerabilities affecting Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC) for Windows and macOS.
Lees meerYou, me, everyone is being rated on a scale between zero and one on signals such as whether we waste Facebook's time by falsely flagging posts as being false.
Lees meerBabysitting-booking app Sitter “temporarily” exposed the personal data of 93,000 account holders, according to a researcher who recently discovered the trove of data using the Shodan Internet of Things (IoT) search engine.
Lees meerUS cities using smart meters narrowly escaped a legal problem this month when a court decided that the benefits of these IoT devices outweighed the privacy issues created by collecting detailed home energy data.
Lees meer"You," or "footage that you swear is of a consenting adult," though details on how that will be ascertained by Naughty America are sketchy.
Lees meerBugs in the widespread graphics system Ghostscript could be exploited remotely by crooks - so here's how to keep attackers at bay.
Lees meerOn average, they're fetching $8.71 (about £6.60) for one-time use, though some sellers are also selling bundles of accounts at higher prices.
Lees meerPrenda Law masterminds Paul Hansmeier and John Steele filmed and uploaded the videos, then sued the "John Does" who downloaded them.
Lees meerOn average, they're fetching $8.71 (about £6.60) for one-time use, though some sellers are also selling bundles of accounts at higher prices.
Lees meerIt's been dubbed ReDos, for Regular Expression Denial of Service - where a few rogue HTTP requests could clog your whole site.
Lees meerDraft EU legislation, due out next month, will likely incorporate a one-hour takedown window for extremist content flagged by law enforcement.
Lees meerWhatsAppers have until 12 November. That's when WhatsApp will sweep out dusty old backups that haven't been updated in more than a year.
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