The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who’s taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more.

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In all, the update covers five Windows and Linux desktop CVE vulnerabilities, including one rated as critical.

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Thousands of active WordPress plugins have been hit with a swathe of XSS vulnerabilities that could give attackers complete control of the site.

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Researchers have demonstrated how voice assistants can be secretly activated without ever physically touching the device.

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Thanks to this flood of free certificates, the web is a lot more encrypted than it was a few years ago.

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You might want to unplug this not-so-smart robot: researchers found they can watch video streams piped out from its security camera.

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Less than an hour after the crooks registered their scamming domain, the phishing attack was under way.

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Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.

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From Chrome’s mystery zero-day to why the EC has switched to Signal, get yourself up to date with everything we’ve written in the last week.

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Time to worry about how well the facial recognition startup protects its 3b+ database of faceprints scraped from our social media accounts?

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