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Two security researchers, Karan Saini and Ryan Stevenson, discovered a bug in Comcast’s website used to activate Xfinity routers – the site could return sensitive information on the company’s customers. Anyone with a subscriber’s account number and street address number would receive their Wi-Fi nam.....
You know how most dystopian future thrillers feature facial recognition cameras that authoritarian governments use to track and control their citizens’ every move? Amazon is working hard to make exactly that sort of facial recognition a reality. To make matters even worse, it has recently been revea.....
Since 2016, a highly advanced and organized hacking organization – likely run by a hostile state – has been infecting internet routers around the world with a powerful piece of malware that researchers call VPNFilter. The malware was being researched and followed in secrecy, but recent events have p.....
When the Cambridge Analytica scandal erupted earlier this year, many hopes that we had seen the worst extent to which Facebook had harvested and profited from our data. A new report, however, reveals that the rabbit hole goes deeper than we thought! What your phone maker knows about youFacebook isn’.....
Cambridge Analytica, the UK-based data firm employed by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016, harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters and used them to build powerful software for both predicting and shaping choices at the ballot box. On Saturday (March 17), The Guardian and The .....
How to know if you’ve been hackedFacebook is a complex service when you look under the hood, so sometimes, what may seem like a hack might just be a quirky security function, setting, or app you weren’t aware of. What are the signs of a real Facebook hack? Strange messages from your friends. When a .....
A sophisticated ransomware attack has left the city of Atlanta crippled and cyber-security experts racing to figure out how it happened. The attack has highlighted the importance of cyber-security on both an individual and institutional level as poor defenses embolden criminal hacker groups. What ha.....
Let’s agree on one thing – when it comes to safeguarding the personal information of its users, Facebook is one big failure. In case you missed the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal, here’s a short recap: Four years ago the UK-based company collected personal data of 87 million Facebook users to ta.....

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