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Can we expect a future free from passwords and PINs?
Will passwords and PINs wither and die? Fast IDentity Online, or FIDO, says its new rules for designing authentication systems should make it "simpler and stronger for all".
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12 Days competition: Day 8 - The amount of spam you can send is...
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 8 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
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Sony tormentors leak celebrities' phone numbers, aliases
Those affected include Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire and Sarah Michelle Gellar.
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Yahoo sells Flickr users' photos without sharing profits
Don't expect DMCA takedown notices on this one. As image owners are finding out, Creative Commons-licensed images are legal to share - even for commercial purposes.
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The Pirate Bay taken down by police, re-emerges within hours
Infamous file-sharing site The Pirate Bay dropped offline for several hours yesterday following a raid of its Stockholm data centre.
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Patch Tuesday wrap-up, December 2014 - why "Important" can be Critical...
Adobe and Microsoft put forth their respective Patch Tuesday updates this week, bringing you their last scheduled patches of 2014. Paul Ducklin digs in...
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Facebook head of AI wants to stop you from posting things you may later regret
Facebook AI is on track to stop you from drunkenly posting photos of yourself at a party for all the world (and your mom, and your boss) to see.
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Microsoft: US would be outraged if another nation ransacked its servers
That's exactly what the US is doing, Microsoft says: trying to sidestep international law by demanding a customer's email from servers in another country.
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12 Days competition: Day 9 - This musical gift gave you too much
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 9 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
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Retailers are "overconfident" about their security, majority have fundamental...
Happy holidays! Lots of us are shopping away, but a new report finds that retailers aren't doing enough to keep impish cyber crooks out of our business.
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GCHQ and police team up to hunt down child abusers on the darknet
A major crackdown on child-abuse imagery includes a new law making it illegal for an adult to send a sexual communication to a child.
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12 Days competition: Day 10 - This bug was one shell of a shock
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 10 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
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Microsoft pulls Patch Tuesday fix - "Outlook can't connect to Exchange"
Part of Patch Tuesday is now only partly available as Microsoft recalls its already-delayed Exchange 2010 update. Paul Ducklin takes a look...
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The social media network that's worst for bullying is...
We asked you which social network was the worst for bullying and you answered with gusto. But not as much gusto as 4Chan's /pol/ board. They got really, really, really excited about it.
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Server failure clears skies over London as flights are grounded
Flights are now departing again from London airports after airspace over London was closed this afternoon due to a computer failure.
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"Like fish and chips without the fish. Or the chips"... 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's the latest episode of our 60 Second Security video. Enjoy the week's news in just one minute...
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Liberty Reserve CTO and eBay car scammer jailed for 5 years each
eBay car scammer Razvan Caprarescu and Liberty Reserve CTO Mark Marmilev were hit with large fines and stiff sentences by US courts looking to send a message to cybercrooks everywhere.
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Monday review - the hot 26 stories of the week
Get yourself up to date with everything we've written in the last seven days - it's weekly roundup time.
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Woman killed by man she met through Facebook
She believed she was going on a date with a man who helped orphans whom she met on Facebook: a horrible example of why we shouldn't meet with online strangers.
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12 Days competition: Day 11 - Now you see it, now you...ah...still see it
Can you work out the answer to our question in Day 11 of our 12 Days of Christmas competition?
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