security breaches
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Your Mac Is Not Virus Proof. It Never Has Been.
Apple computer owners have long felt free to roam the internet without a care in the world. You float out of the Apple Store with a white box that perfectly slides apart when you open it at your home, and inside is your impenetrable, space-grey fortress of solitude with anApple logo just waiting to shine…
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Court Finds That Teenage Hackers Were Central to Data Breaches of Uber, Nvidia, and Rockstar Games
It’s official: a band of British teenagers managed to hack some of the biggest companies on the planet last year, and they did it all using fairly basic hacking techniques. That news comes via recently concluded court proceedings in London, where jury members have just convicted two teens of having been members of the notorious…
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A Hacker Gang Claims It Stole AMD’s Data. Were Bad Passwords Responsible?
A cybercrime gang claims that it recently stole 450 gigabytes of data from global chipmaker AMD by merely guessing employees’ terrible passwords.
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This Hacker Group Forces People to Do Good to Get Their Data Back
A new strain of ransomware was recently identified by cybersecurity analysts, which forces its victims to complete a series of charitable tasks in order to retrieve their data. It combines the inconvenience of having your data stolen, plus the added cringe of self-righteous instructions on how to retrieve said data by doing a number of…