Researchers have found that hackers are exploiting vulnerable piracy streaming devices to steal credit card data or rope them into botnets.
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Lees meerThe NSA has asked the White House to end its mass phone surveillance program because the work involved outweighs its intelligence value.
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Lees meerThe Atlanta Hawks basketball team is recovering after a sophisticated cybercrime group hacked its ecommerce site and planted credit card skimming code on it.
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Lees meerVishwanath Akuthota faces a potential ten-year stretch after killing at least 66 computers at his former college.
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Lees meerDNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.
Lees meerA video has surfaced claiming to show someone unlocking a Nokia 9 by tapping a gum packet against the fingerprint scanner.
Lees meerIf you used WiFi Finder, your passwords to both public and private networks have been left online in an unprotected database.
Lees meerA new survey says 46% of users find security confusing, which helps explain how that old clunker keeps popping to the top of breach lists.
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Lees meerThe youngster who spent his own money to protect people from the WannaCry virus has pleaded guilty to malware-related cybercrime charges.
Lees meerFacebook has updated 'tens of thousands of plaintext Instagram passwords ended up in logfile' to say it was more like a million.
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