Apple is scrambling to fix an embarrassingly dangerous “snooping” bug in its popular FaceTime app.

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DIY giant B&Q reportedly suffered an Elasticsearch database breach this week that gave up information on around 70,000 shoplifters.

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Dailymotion is resetting the account passwords of an unknown number of users after being hit by a “large-scale” credential stuffing attack.

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After years of embarrassment, I’m finally ready to admit how and why my Instagram account got hacked.

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Today is Data Privacy Day. We asked around at Sophos for some tips from people that live security day in and day out.

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An experiment to make the internet safer ended up breaking parts of it last week.

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”Hi there,” said the polite (and fake) help desk, leading to a back-and-forth between a lying scammer and a lying security analyst.

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Of all the calamities that befall email users, few are more dreaded than the ‘reply all’ storm.

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YouTube personality Philip DeFranco warned that the messages pretending to be from him and other top influencers are scams.

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From the US gov’s emergency directive to the 10 Year Challenge, and everything in between. It’s weekly roundup time.

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