[ad_1] After pleading guilty in November, the Canadian hacker at least partially to blame for the massive Yahoo hack that exposed up to 3 billion accounts will face five years in prison. According to the Justice Department, the hacker, 23-year-old Karim Baratov, worked under the...
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[ad_1] President Trump continues to expose himself to hackers because he just can't be bothered to do something about it.Image: MASHABLE COMPOSITE: TRUMP - PHOTO BY RICHARD DREW/AP/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK; HACKER - SHUTTERSTOCK / NHUNGBOONBy Marcus Gilmer2018-05-22 15:38:14 UTC President Donald Trump is once again making headlines...
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[ad_1] Bad guys love bad APIs.Image: Getty ImagesBy PC Mag2018-05-17 18:02:27 UTC Businesses love collaboration software: Programs like Slack, Asana, and Airtable have revolutionized the way we work. Unfortunately, according to digital security expert Greg Arnette, these popular tools are also vulnerable to bad actors....
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[ad_1] We hear neutral territory like Zurich is lovely this time of year.Image: UIG via Getty ImagesBy PC Mag2018-05-16 17:43:19 UTC Cybersecurity company Kapersky Labs found itself blacklisted by U.S. federal agencies after being accused of enabling Russian spies to steal NSA files. Unloved and...
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[ad_1] Wait what.Image: B. TONGO/EPA/REX/SHUTTERSTOCKBy Jack Morse2018-05-11 23:51:43 UTC It's been a year since the WannaCry ransomware swept the globe, encrypting computers and wreaking havoc in the process. So you might think we'd have the vulnerability it exploited neatly wrapped up by now. You'd be wrong. Despite...
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[ad_1] Image: lili sams/mashableBy Monica Chin2018-05-09 15:55:55 UTC Apple is doubling down on your security. The company has seeded the fourth beta of its upcoming iOS 11.4 update to developers, and it contains an intriguing new feature called "USB Restricted Mode." The feature, spotted by ElcomSoft, will...
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[ad_1] Andrew Lohn is an engineer at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation. The security community is still reeling from the discoveries of the Meltdown and Spectre computer vulnerabilities, and now it seems that a rash of new hardware vulnerabilities called MasterKey, RyzenFall, Fallout and Chimera have...
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[ad_1] The last two years have seen the Equifax breach, the WannaCry cyberattack, a nefarious DDoS attack that destroyed the internet for a full day, and a laundry list of other security breaches of the stores, restaurants, and retailers we know and love. A skilled...
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[ad_1] Sheesh.Image: Martin Poole/GettyBy Jack Morse2018-04-20 13:30:54 -0400 Look, we get it. Cybersecurity is hard. But maybe, just maybe, a conference dedicated to computer security and encryption should know better than to leave attendee information exposed via its conference mobile app. And yet. As the RSA Conference...
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[ad_1] As an expected 40,000 cybersecurity professionals gathered in San Francisco for this year's RSA conference, discussions of "threat actors" and "advanced malware protection" filled the giant halls of the downtown Moscone Center. But they were all drowned out by a giant fox and a magician....
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