The pop-up blocking function of many apps and browser extensions appears to obscure an ulterior motive – spying on a user’s web traffic.
Lees meerThe 33-year old allegedly pretended to be a women so that he could dupe young men into having sex, and secretly filmed them.
Lees meerDevs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.
Lees meerAccording to the bill as it stands now, it would be okay to use a bot as long as it discloses that it is a bot, otherwise it's "unlawful".
Lees meerOut of sight, out of mind? Not on Facebook, where 8,000 miles between Illinois and Thailand is wiped out by a "here's us with the kids!" pic.
Lees meerThat's not supposed to happen: 150GB of customer data that the world could download... and hack.. and then upload again.
Lees meerHe streamed videos of hundreds of passengers on Twitch, where viewers critiqued bodies and behavior and grabbed at least one upskirt clip.
Lees meerFacebook is probing whether the firm's government contracts comply with its policies, which nix use of user data for government surveillance.
Lees meerScammers have been exploiting Twitter for months now to steal digital currencies from naïve users, but this month one attacker pulled off a rare coup by compromising a verified Twitter account.
Lees meerJonathan Homer says Russian hackers have snared “hundreds of victims” in the utilities and equipment sectors and "got to the point where they could have thrown switches” in a way that could have caused power blackouts.
Lees meerA "Bluetooth snooping" bug, dubbed CVE-2018-5383, was just announced - are you patched, and how can you tell?
Lees meerThe bot scraped Venmo's public API for sex, drugs and alcohol-related words, then tweeted profile photos and first names of the "buyers."
Lees meerPhishing attackers have failed to compromise a single employee account at Google since the company mandated authentication using U2F hardware tokens in early 2017. That’s the remarkable claim made to security writer Brian Krebs.
Lees meerChrome will mark all HTTP sites as "not secure" starting on Tuesday - an important milestone on the road to HTTPS everywhere.
Lees meerNew restrictions in the WhatsApp messaging app are designed to combat a spate of mob lynchings.
Lees meerThe Data Transfer Project will allow users to move their data easily between participating services.
Lees meerCatch up with Day 5 of our Security SOS Week - here's the fifth and final episode of our week-long online security summit.
Lees meerUnder a new policy, US organizations and individuals will be told if they're the target of foreign operations trying to influence elections.
Lees meerFrom Roblox saying hacking led to avatar's gang rape and USB Restricted Mode being available to all iPhone users to the guy jailed for refusing to unlock his phones, and more!
Lees meerCarePartners said its forensic investigation identified 1500 affected records - the hackers say they took 80,000.
Lees meerRoblox was moving some older, user-generated games to a newer, more secure system when the attack took place, it says.
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