Sextortion scammers have started hijacking poorly managed or defunct blogs to expand an increasingly profitable business.

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Facebook is using trademark law to target the operators of sites that imitate or target Facebook and Instagram sites.

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The anonymized real-time location data the city’s after can easily be associated with riders, thereby jeopardizing their privacy, Uber says.

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The Kardashians love the Gradient app – but they’re being paid to use it, whereas for you it’s the other way round. Is it safe?

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The PHP development team has fixed a bug that could allow remote code execution in some setups of the programming language.

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The technology – which Facebook won’t use in its own apps – subtly distorts face images so they’re still recognizable, but not to machines.

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Adobe has become the latest company to be caught leaving an Elasticsearch database full of customer data exposed on the internet.

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Johannesburg spent the weekend struggling to recover from its second malware attack this year as it took key services systems offline.

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US lawmakers asked intelligence to look into whether the app and others like it could pose a security threat or be used to influence opinion.

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