Emotet is moving, shape-shifting target for admins and their security software. Here’s what we’ve learned from dealing with outbreaks.

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The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued an emergency directive tightening DNS security after a recent wave of domain hijacking attacks targeting government websites.

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Your likes, interest and personality can be gleaned from as few as 8-9 friends on social media, whether you’re on the platform or not.

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A man has been arrested a year after stealing €10m ($15m) of the IoT-focused cryptocurrency IOTA using bogus software that tricked users.

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Adverts on Facebook featuring fake celebrity endorsements scam people out of their savings, and Facebook is now doing something about it.

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A bomb threat spam campaign that hit North America last month may have been engineered using a flaw in GoDaddy’s domain management process, it was revealed this week.

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The decision means Yelp, and other platforms, are still protected from liability for user-submitted content under the CDA’s Section 230.

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Did you see the story about the US family whose Nest camera “warned” them of an impending nuclear attack? Here’s how to keep hackers out…

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Apple has issued its January security updates fixing a list of mostly shared CVE flaws affecting iOS and macOS with a smattering for Safari, watchOS, tvOS, and iCloud for Windows.

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Hanging up on the fact-checkers probably isn’t the best way for a news outlet to assure them that it’s trustworthy.

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