It’s not longer enough to be wary of flash-in-the-pan “lovers” who ask you to send money; now they’re asking you to open accounts for them.

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Equifictitious sites popped up within days of Equifax agreeing to pay up to $700m to settle claims over the 2017 data breach.

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When is a secure PIN not a secure PIN? When you accidentally store it in your log files.

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The August 2019 security bulletin is out – and two of the critical flaws could allow an attacker to compromise the Android system kernel.

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NVIDIA has patched five bugs in its Windows GPU display driver, three of which could allow an attacker to execute code on the system.

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New research from Sophos takes an exhaustive look at the Baldr password stealer.

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His victims: UCSD and a Pennsylvania university. He hid out in Kenya for nearly 8 months before being nabbed.

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The class action charges Capital One and GitHub, charging it with being “friendly” (at least) toward hacking and for the hackers’ posts.

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Another database has fallen to extortion hackers, this time containing 2.1 million records belonging to Mexican bookseller, Librería Porrúa.

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Apple and Google have announced that they will limit the way audio recorded by their voice assistants, Siri and Google Assistant, are accessed internally by contractors.

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