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Mac users vulnerable to adware and worse while Apple procrastinates on bug fix
Malware might still only be a minor threat to Mac users, but adware continues to grow like a plague. The latest exploit comes in the form of a Trojan horse posing as a download utility. The virus atta...
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Pixels in images can hack your computer - #WTFWednesday
What’s so dangerous about looking at a picture file in your web browser? In the past, nothing. You loaded the image. It displayed on your screen. You closed it, or went to a different page. There wa...
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Use a VPN at Worlds to stay in touch with everyone back home!
Don’t lose touch with your friends and family when you’re ripping up the track at Worlds. You’ve worked your butt off to get this far. You train hard. You stay positive. You set goals—and a...
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New strain of malware steals credit card info from local businesses
The latest strain of malicious software targets everything from pet stores and movie theaters to restaurants and credit unions. Called GamaPOS, the malware already affects 13 US states and Vancouver, ...
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Watch the PGA Championship online
If you’re a golf fan, you probably wish you were in Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin for the 2015 PGA Championship — coming up August 13-16 — to watch returning champ Rory McIlroy defend h...
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GCHQ: Financial centers next for Russian hackers
It was all going so well. After decades of Cold War, slightly lukewarm interactions, and the occasionally civil gesture, the United States, Britain and Russia finally found some common ground. And the...
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New tool helps journalists and activists detect governments’ snooping malware
Researchers at Rook Security have created a free tool to scan and detect a malware that is used by oppressive government regimes to spy on journalists and activists, according to Threatpost. Dubbed M...
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Infected NES games for Android steal your data, text your friends, ask for cash
A nostalgic speed run through Super Mario Bros. on your Android phone could cost you more than a few extra lives, according to a recent report from Palo Alto Networks. Gunpoder is a nasty family of m...
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Viral outbreak inspires MERS-themed malware
A human virus is a lot like a piece of malware, “downloading” itself into your system and draining your vital resources for its own ends. So it’s ironic that Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (ME...
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How hackers can use your fingerprints to frame you
This post was originally published on June 17, 2015. It’s the one thing that was supposed to be truly personal to you. As unique as the special snowflake that, deep down, you believe yourself to be....
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