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Facebook fixes bug that leaked users' phone numbers
Facebook said that when retrieving a user's email address via graph API, app developers were receiving a 10-digit number once for every 1,000 users, more or less (mileage varies), instead of the...
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The top 10 unsolved ciphertexts
For over 12 centuries an intense battle has been fought between the code-makers and the code-breakers. But despite decades of cryptanalysis, there are many ciphertexts which have gone unsolved, leaving...
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Kim Dotcom's Megaupload saga takes another turn - FBI wins appeal in...
The Kim Dotcom saga took yet another turn today when the New Zealand Court of Appeal knocked back one of the big fella's earlier minivictories again US law enforcers. Paul Ducklin takes you through the...
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Evernote hacked - almost 50 million passwords reset after security breach
Evernote, the online note-taking service, has says that it has suffered a serious security breach which saw hackers steal usernames, associated email addresses and encrypted passwords.
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Evernote shoots itself in foot over "never click on 'reset password'...
Have you taken a close look at the email that Evernote has sent out, with the subject line "Evernote Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset"? It looks like the hacked company has made a blunder.
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Anatomy of a "feature" - what happens if a website grabs all your disk space?
HTML5 allows websites to save data on your hard disk for the next time you visit. Your browser is supposed to restrict how much disk space each website can use. But for most browsers, the restrictions...
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Monday review - the hot 22 stories of the week
In case you missed anything, here's everything we wrote in the past seven days.
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Jailed cybercriminal hacked into his own prison's computer system after being...
Here's a piece of advice for those running classes training prisoners about information technology. It's probably not a good idea to let notorious hackers join the course - or, if you do, to keep a...
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Has Justin Bieber died in a car crash? No. But that doesn't stop Facebook...
Get your real news from real news websites. Don't trust Google or your Facebook friends, as they may be sharing links and stories that simply aren't true.
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Apple bans outdated Adobe Flash plugins from Safari
Last week, Apple showed that it is getting more serious about security by getting strict about the version of Flash you're allowed to use in Safari. Paul Ducklin explains the what and the why...
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US ISPs launch pirate wrist-slapping campaign
With the new "six strikes" piracy alert system, Comcast plans to hijack offenders' browsers, Cablevision will suspend subscribers for 24 hours after a fifth offense, and plenty of ISPs are looking at...
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Curiosity Rover suffers IT glitch - this time it really might be "cosmic rays"!
The Mars Science Laboratory project reported late last week that the Curiosity Rover was switched over to its backup computer system, following what sounds like a problem of memory corruption. Paul...
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USA is number one! (...for spam)
USA! USA! USA! is back on top as the world’s leading spam-relaying country. See what other countries top our 'dirty dozen' list and get the latest spam stats from SophosLabs.
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Russian ransomware takes advantage of Windows PowerShell
What's a reasonable price to pay to get your data safely returned to you from the guys who stole it? How about 10,000 Rubles? No? According to the cybercriminals behind this new ransomware targeting...
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Rogue Apache modules pushing iFrame injections which drive traffic to...
SophosLabs has seen huge volumes of legitimate sites being compromised with malicious redirects in recent weeks. Fraser Howard explains what's going on, and how the compromised web servers are almost...
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Samsung Galaxy security vulnerability unlocks homescreen
If you're nimble enough, you can get past the Galaxy Note 2's lock screen. And PIN. And password. And face unlock.
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It's *never* a virus when people say it might be a virus - funny diagram from...
Check out this virus-related Venn diagram from those amusing folks at XKCD.
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White House agrees cellphone unlocking should be allowed, but jailbreakers...
The White House agrees with the 114,000+ US citizens who signed a petition to make cell phone unlocking legal. What they didn't address: the legality of jailbreaking and rooting.
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Find a new way of exploiting Chrome, IE, Java, etc.. and you could win...
Security researchers are gathering in Vancouver at the CanSecWest conference, in the hope of winning substantial cash prizes for finding exploitable vulnerabilities in the likes of Chrome, Internet...
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How to protect yourself from debit-card fraud
How's this for a phone call you don't want on a Sunday night: Visa's fraud unit, calling to ask whether you're aware that $1,371 has been wired from your bank account via Western Union. Unfortunately,...
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