August 08, 2022

Slack admits to leaking hashed passwords for five years

"When those invitations went out... somehow, your password hash went out with them."

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January 14, 2020

Lottery hacker gets 9 months for his £5 cut of the loot

We don't care how little you made from your crimes, the judge said. We care that you went after an outfit that gives a ton to charities.

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November 14, 2019

How the most damaging ransomware evades IT security

This article is a condensed version of our report How Ransomware Behaves: What defenders should know about the top families

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October 22, 2019

Vatican launches smart rosary – complete with brute-force flaw

Now fixed, the Vatican's new fitness-and-prayer eRosary and its accompanying app, Click to Pray, were found to have a serious privacy bug.

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April 30, 2019

A taste of the onslaught at the network’s edge

Edge devices take a licking so the rest of the network can keep on ticking, but they do need a little extra TLC

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October 24, 2017

Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreak

The Bad Rabbit ransomware outbreak is spreading into Europe from Russia

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August 16, 2017

News in brief: micro robots heal mice; Scottish Parliament hacked; Google Allo on desktops

Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news

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February 26, 2016

Apple responds in iPhone unlocking case: US seeks “dangerous” powers

Apple says the US government's request for a backdoor to the iPhone is a dangerous overreach of its constitutional powers.

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February 11, 2016

PIN-stealing IRS attack affects 100,000 taxpayers

Crooks have used a list of close to 500,000 social security numbers to milk an IRS portal of more than 100,000 taxpayers' e-filing PINs.

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