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FBI investigates Cardinals for breaking into Astros' database in baseball...
The FBI is investigating one of the best baseball teams in the US after it allegedly broke into a database belonging to one of the worst.
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Apple OS X and iOS in the vulnerability spotlight - meet "CORED," also known...
The security issue of the week has arrived in iOS and OS X, and it's attracted a funky name already. The researchers called it XARA, but others had different ideas, and dubbed it "CORED." As in "Apple...
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DuckDuckGo search traffic soars 600% post-Snowden
DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg believes the search engine can attract a growing number of privacy-conscious web users.
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Former Googler fights adblockers with adblocker blocker
Somebody formerly at Google - a somebody who was close to the enormous sucking sound of lost advertising revenues - has decided to fight the adblockers.
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WhatsApp ranked worst at protecting user data
Even the one star WhatsApp got in the EFF's ranking - for publicly opposing backdoors for government spying - was inherited from Facebook.
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Critical Drupal vulnerability patched — update your website now
The Drupal Security Team has released a critical security advisory and software updates for the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). Users with websites running either Drupal 6 or Drupal 7 are urged...
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SSCC 203 - What's the worst sort of service to have a password breach? [PODCAST]
Join Sophos security experts John Shier and Paul Ducklin as they dig into the latest security news in our regular "Chet Chat" podcast. This week: LastPass, Facebook, Windows 10 (and not-quite-the-end...
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Sony's post-breach woes continue as WikiLeaks dumps 276,000 more documents
WikiLeaks appears to be celebrating the third anniversary of Julian Assange's unplanned Ecuadorian embassy stay by releasing another cache of Sony documents, including an alleged bribery investigation.
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"Belts and breaches" - 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here's the latest episode of our entertaining news-in-1-minute security roundup. Enjoy!
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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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Millions of fake online reviews are gumming up the joy of buying stuff
A UK watchdog is investigating online reviews, be they "This changed my LIFE!" bogosity or fake negative reviews used as blackmail.
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Google Chrome "bad link" detection bypass - found, fixed
Here's a small and simple XSS detection hole in Google Chrome - a reminder that even determined programmers sometimes overlook the obvious.
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Katie Hopkins has her Twitter account hacked, bogus 'sex tape' tweets issued
The controversial Katie Hopkins had her Twitter account hacked by someone threatening to release a bogus sex tape.
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Security hole in MacKeeper used to shove malware onto Macs
According to researchers at BAE, a recent Mac malware infestation was carried out using a security hole in a utility called MacKeeper.
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Google, John Oliver & (hopefully soon) US give revenge porn 3 swift kicks
Google's putting up search result takedown, the US is moving toward criminalisation, and John Oliver calls culprits "malevolent gods".
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Amazon uses artificial intelligence to weed out fake reviews
Given enough time for the new AI system to learn what a helpful review is, fake reviews may sink to the bottom of the reviews ocean.
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Facebook aiming for faceless facial recognition
Worried that Facebook can't get your friends right in your selfies when their hair blows around? There might just be an app for that...
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Pita bread helps researchers steal encryption keys
Four Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a tiny, low-cost device that can steal encryption keys via radio waves.
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US Navy pays millions to cling to Windows XP
More than a year after Microsoft pulled the plug on free support for the end-of-life'd OS, hundreds of millions of users are still clinging to the drifting ship.
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Uber wants even more customer data - EPIC asks FTC to slam on the brakes
Uber wants location data when the app's running in the background (even when it's off on iOS), location data from IP address, and users' contact lists.
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