Twenty US middle and high-school students in the US are facing charges of privacy invasion after numerous explicit photos of female students were swapped by text and social media.
"Security Checkup" doesn't reinvent the wheel: it just drags Facebook's login protection tools out of the drop-down menu closet and puts them right under our noses.
Yahoo will face a class action lawsuit for allegedly violating users' privacy by scanning email messages for targeted advertising purposes.
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Parents upload an average of 973 photos of kids on social media before they hit 5 but 17% admit they don't check privacy settings, ever.
After 2 months of patient data exposed for anyone to see, Cottage Health System's insurance policy should have come as a relief. It didn't.
Linux-based operating systems aren't invulnerable.
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A significant minority of experts working in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), about 18%, believe that AI will one day pose an 'existential threat' to humanity.
Gone are the sex scandals, excessive use of chauffeur driven cars, and lavish expenses used to spiff up MPs' homes.
The Internal Revenue Service has confirmed that attackers accessed 100,000 taxpayers' accounts using personal data stolen elsewhere.
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He might face state and federal charges. The attack crippled more than 50 schools, forcing some students to retake tests multiple times, among other miseries.
Adult FriendFinder, a website billed as a way for people to "find friends, sex, flings and hookups," has had a serious data breach. Millions of people who thought they were using a discrete service to find casual sex have had
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12% of the 269,422 complaints received in 2014 had a social media aspect, be it doxing, clickjacking or pharming. Here's how to stay safe.
Special agents working at Scotland Yard worried that cult religious groups inspired by TV series like Star Trek and The X-Files might commit widespread acts of violence ahead of the new millennium.
We've had BEAST, Lucky Thirteen, BREACH, BEAST, POODLE, Heartbleed and FREAK...now, it's LOGJAM.
Paul Ducklin explains, and tells you what you can do about it.
Businesses often don't realise why encryption is important, and how they can use it to protect their data. The latest in our Practical IT series tells you what encryption is and how you can use it in your business.
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