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Email crooks swindle woman out of $150K from home sale
She sent her bank account details three times, she said. Unfortunately, they wound up in crooks’ hands, and her money wound up in their pockets.
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Microsoft font gives away forgery in bankruptcy case
In a case that could be straight out of a legal TV drama, a computing font has cost a couple two houses in a Canadian bankruptcy case.
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Change your password! VoIP provider leaves huge database exposed online
A researcher has discovered an exposed database containing gigabytes of call logs, SMS data, and internal system credentials belonging to US Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service provider VOIPo.com.
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Two charged with hacking company filings out of SEC’s EDGAR system
They’re charged with phishing and inflicting malware to get into the EDGAR filing system, stealing thousands of filings, and selling access.
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Are you sure those WhatsApp messages are meant for you?
Abby Fuller got a shock when she logged into WhatsApp using a new telephone number. She found someone else’s messages waiting for her.
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Intel patches another security flaw in SGX technology
Of the six advisories Intel released last week, the most interesting is a flaw discovered in the company’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX).
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Beware buying Fortnite’s V-Bucks, you could be funding organised crime
Credit card thieves are laundering money by purchasing the in-game currency V-Bucks, then selling it back at a discount to players.
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