Ransomware Attacks Are on the Rise, Again
Amid a concerted effort by global law enforcement to crack down on ransomware attacks, payments to hackers and even the...
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Silk Road’s Second-in-Command, Variety Jones, Gets 20 Years in Prison
Nearly ten years ago, the sprawling dark web drug market known as the Silk Road was torn offline in a...
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How to Use Discord’s Family Center With Your Teens
Discord started in 2015 as a communication platform for gamers. It’s now a sprawling hub of active servers where users...
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The Quiet Rise of Real-Time Crime Centers
Most evidence for RTCC effectiveness, however, is anecdotal, and there is a real lack of studies into how effective they...
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Russia’s Notorious Troll Farm Disbands
When Yevgeny Prighozin, the head of the notorious mercenary army known as the Wagner Group, staged an aborted coup against...
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How Threads’ Privacy Policy Compares to Twitter’s (and Its Rivals’)
Meta’s long-awaited Twitter alternative is here, and it’s called Threads. The new social media app launches at a time when...
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Don’t Join Threads—Make Meta’s Instagram-Linked Twitter Alternative Join You
As Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, started generating buzz ahead of yesterday’s launch, curious netizens spotted a placeholder listing for the...
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US Spies Are Buying Americans’ Private Data. Congress Has a Chance to Stop It
The National Defense Authorization Act now includes language that would forbid government entities from buying Americans’ search histories, location data,...
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EV Charger Hacking Poses a ‘Catastrophic’ Risk
Such cracks could conceivably permit hackers to access vehicle data or consumers’ credit card information, says Ken Munro, a co-founder...
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Security News This Week: Cyberstalkers Win First Amendment Victory in the US Supreme Court
Amid exploding AI usage, the United States Senate is mulling legislation to regulate the development of artificial intelligence, but lawmakers’...
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Apple, Google, and MOVEit Just Patched Serious Security Flaws
Summer software updates are coming thick and fast, with Apple, Google, and Microsoft issuing multiple patches for serious security flaws...
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Pornhub Accused of Illegal Data Collection
The final element of the complaints claims that Pornhub uses people’s data and “unilaterally assigns sexual preferences to each individual...
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