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ONE OF THE BIGGEST and most trusted VPN providers, NordVPN, has admitted a server it was renting was hacked last year NordVPN went public after security researchers made accusations on Twitter that the Panama-based firm was sitting on an attack. The hackers got to a single server at a data centre in Finland, rented to NordVPN
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Czech cybersecurity firm Avast Software s.r.o., the owner of popular antivirus software provider AVG Technologies N.V., has been hacked, but the company managed to fight off the attack. Those behind the hack managed to gain access by compromising an employee’s virtual private network credentials that were not protected using two-factor authentication. Having gained access, the hacker managed
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Many people resort to pornography websites to satisfy their bodily needs. On the contrary, an ex-Yahoo engineer went miles ahead and hacked into real people’s accounts instead. Reyes Daniel Ruiz compromised 6,000 accounts of Yahoo users in order to find sexual videos and images. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose for
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Megan Ellis and Christian Cawley catch up to bring you the latest tech news that matters in the Really Useful Podcast, the tech podcast for technophobes. This week, Megan has details about the launch of the Huawei Mate 30, an Android phone that significantly ships without Google apps. We also find out if your iPhone
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fizkes/Shutterstock Bluetooth is everywhere, and so are its security flaws. But how great is the risk? How concerned should you be about Bluejacking, Bluesnarfing, or Bluebugging? Here’s what you need to know to protect your devices. Bluetooth Vulnerabilities Abound At first glance, it might seem like it’s pretty risky to use Bluetooth. At the recent
This week on the podcast we’re talking about cybersecurity at schools—and how secure, or in some cases how vulnerable, the tech systems in school systems are these days. We’re focusing on a pretty unusual story about Bill Demirkapi, who had a pretty odd hobby while he was in high school in Lexington, Massachusetts. While many
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Alphabet teams up with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, are office perks still cool, and Twitter CEO’s gets hacked. Alphabet has teamed up with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan to create an infrastructure company? That’s right, dubbed Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, the new company is focused on investing in “technology-enabled infrastructure” such as advanced mobility, energy,
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The Project Zero team at Google has announced that it discovered a small collection of hacked websites that were being used to attack iPhones. According to the Project Zero team, merely visiting these hacked websites was enough for the exploit servers to attack the visitor’s iPhone. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) collected a total of
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The account of Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) Chief Executive Jack Dorsey was hacked on Friday afternoon, sending public tweets and retweets including racial slurs and curse words to 4 million followers before Twitter secured the account. The social media company, co-founded by Dorsey, said the phone number associated with his account was
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