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Withdrawal pains: Banks lose $1 billion in new hack
This article was originally published on February 23, 2015. How do you get money out of the bank? If you're like most people, you head to the nearest ATM or talk to a teller for larger amounts. If you...
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Hacktivism and vandalism were the main motivations for DDoS attacks last year
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are growing in size, frequency and complexity, according to the latest Annual Infrastructure Report from Arbor Networks. The security vendor’s 10th Annu...
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Is ransomware the greatest highway robber of the 21st century?
The days of a Dick Turpin type of character pulling you over on the side of the road and demanding your valuables in return for sparing your life are thankfully long gone but highway robbery has never...
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Terror in the skies? New malware clips drone wings
Are drones the answer to manned surveillance flights and retail deliveries? Both governments and companies like Amazon have been working hard to sell this line but have been met with stiff resistance....
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Explaining the WebRTC IP leak vulnerability affecting some web browsers
UPDATE: December 6, 2017 ExpressVPN has a great new WebRTC leak test page to help you check for and learn about WebRTC leaks. For Chrome users: Good news! webrtc.org has just released its official f...
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The KooZoo camera app: It's a jungle out there
This post was originally published on January 28, 2015. What if you could turn smartphones or iPods into a streaming cameras, then get a look at what other people doing the same thing were streaming w...
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Encrypted chat apps, round two: Talk is cheap
We recently took a look at some of the most popular encrypted chat apps on the market, but as several commenters pointed out didn't even scratch the surface of what's available. Without further ado, h...
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Internet Systems Consortium site hacked
This post was originally published on January 7, 2015. This week the Internet Systems Consortium site was hacked. Visitors to the site, which develops the BIND DNS, OpenReg, ISC AFTR and ISC DHCP t...
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Top 10 security breaches of 2014
That's right folks, it's time. Time for a roundup of the year's worst IT security breaches and how they've impacted the tech market at large. And away we go, with: 1) University of Maryland Let's sta...
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Encrypted chat apps: Give 'em nothing to talk about
This post was originally published on December 22, 2014. We've since done a follow-up post about even more encrypted chat apps for you to keep your conversations private! In the wake of NSA snooping r...
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