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Wikileaks’ Digital Cats Need A Forever Home
Wikileaks is now in the business of selling digital cats. How far the mighty have fallen. You might remember CryptoKitties, which took off just a few short weeks ago — although this exhausting year makes it feel much, much longer.
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Stolen California Voter Database Held For Bitcoin Ransom
An Amazon AWS server believed to contain files on all of California’s registered voters was left exposed this year due to a misconfigured database, according to researchers at the Kromtech Security Center. The database was later stolen by cybercriminals demanding a ransom only payable in bitcoin.
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Facebook Now Lets You ‘Snooze’ Your Friends For 30 Days
Facebook already allows you to unfollow someone while staying friends, if their posts are starting to clog up your feed. But perhaps you just want to shush them for a while, without cutting them out completely. In that case, the social media site has a new feature, just for you, called “Snooze”.
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Kaspersky Closes DC Office, Says It Is ‘No Longer Viable’ To Work With US Government
Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky has had a rough season in the US amid claims the company’s software scans for and steals documents of interest to the Kremlin. With the use of its products at US government agencies now banned, the company has elected to shut down its DC-area headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.