Microsoft has recognised that users don’t actually change their passwords when prompted, they just tweak them. And that doesn’t help anyone.

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A Massachusetts federal district judge gave cops a warrant to force-unlock iPhones with the suspect’s fingers.

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A US security researcher has come up with an open-source Windows backdoor loosely based on NSA attack code that leaked back in 2017.

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Someone has been quietly pilfering Ethereum (ETH) cryptocurrency worth millions of dollars without anyone noticing or, apparently, caring.

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The Atlanta Hawks basketball team is recovering after a sophisticated cybercrime group hacked its ecommerce site and planted credit card skimming code on it.

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He claims that Apple allegedly uses the technology to spot shoplifters and that it falsely linked him to a series of Apple store thefts.

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Vishwanath Akuthota faces a potential ten-year stretch after killing at least 66 computers at his former college.

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The privacy think tank had them for 20 days, and one of the docs was already displayed at a conference, but the NYPD is still clawing them back.

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The owner of State Snaps hired his cousin to break into the home of the owner of DoItForState.com to force him to transfer the domain.

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DNS over HTTPS (DoH), backed by Google, Mozilla and Cloudflare, is about to make web surveillance a lot more difficult.

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