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The new Twitter tool is meant to enable communities to share lists of problem accounts instead of having to pick them off one by one.

Imagine a friend sends you a link, and you end up on a scammy diet site... Could that cause any harm? What should you do?

Snapchat has an optional new security feature in version 9.9, called Login Verification. Here's why you should definitely update your app and turn it on.

A multination bust nabbed 49 people on suspicion of using Man-in-the-Middle attacks to sniff out and intercept payment requests from email.

The FBI's investigation points to a ring of thieves who used phishing and password-reset scams to crack celebrities' iCloud and email accounts and steal nude images.

We just received an important email from Microsoft. If you're a user of any of Microsoft's cloud services, you probably received one, too.

Apple announced on Monday that iOS 9 will have native two-factor authentication as well as (slightly) more secure passcodes.

An attacker who knows how to update the firmware - not a tough task, says security researcher Billy Rios - can change the dosage to a lethal limit.

To catch the bad stuff, keep your users productive, and cut down on time cleaning up compromised computers, here are our recommendations for getting web security right.

"Your commanders admit they are training the people they have sent you to die fighting", said one of the messages posted on the site.

Otherwise normal-looking tickets issued to drivers fumed that Meaux mayor Jean-François Copé was "a thieving, bastard mayor."

A video of a screaming baby being dunked in a bucket of water leaves Facebook caught between issues of free speech and apparent condoning of practices many interpret as child abuse.

Independent security researcher Samy Kamkar has hacked a kids' toy to open garage doors.

Keep an eye on your gadgets, lest somebody get control of your WhatsApp account with zero technical smarts and just one phone call!

It's not clear what data the intruders might have grabbed, but Brabantia said that it wasn't financial. Nor were passwords accessed.

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One week on from "Marauders Map" and Facebook Messenger has removed its eerie always-on location sharing feature.

The hodgepodge of US state and federal laws about phone search, some of which say the law needs a warrant and some of which say they don't, just got a bit messier.

Being able to see a politician's flip-flopping, via an archive of deleted tweets, was a valuable transparency tool. RIP to that!