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Facebook admits it’s using numbers supplied for 2FA for more than security, and you can’t turn it off.

IT managers are flying blind in the battle to protect their companies from cyber attacks, according to a new Sophos survey.

It didn’t require an account PIN to switch carriers. Everybody uses 0000, it said, making it easier for customers… and phone hijackers.

Adobe has issued an urgent patch for a critical flaw in the ColdFusion web development platform it says is being exploited in the wild.

Microsoft’s IoT version of Windows is vulnerable to an exploit that could give an attacker complete control of the system.

An Argentinian has garnered $1m in bug bounties, while a German researcher has given up on getting any bounty at all from Apple.

After big brands pulled ads, YouTube banned millions of comments, closed hundreds of accounts, and sped up development of a predator filter.

It’s been a predator’s playground, where children’s photos have been public by default and trolling adults could message them.

Facebook, Signal and Telegram are all planning cryptocurrencies. But why these companies, why now, and will they be successful?

A security company was able to track command and control traffic generated by hacking groups thanks to an anomaly in a pen-testing tool.