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Lenovos shipped with vulnerable bloatware
Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo (IBM’s former hardware division) is making headlines this month, but not the kind that most companies covet. Until as recently as January 2015, Lenovo has shipped a large number of computers with pre-installed software from adware company Superfish. In and of itself, this isn’t an uncommon practice – hardware manufacturers commonly
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Cyber bank heist nets perps millions
Russian security firm Kaspersky has just released details of an elaborate, multi-year, multi-country heist that netted hundreds of millions for the group orchestrating the crime. Rather than a series of spectacularly violent bank robberies, this campaign played out quietly and slowly on the technology infrastructure of over 100 financial institutions in 30 different countries. Unfortunately
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Anthem hacked – 80 million customers exposed
If you didn’t hear it on the news, you probably got an email from Anthem letting you know that your personal information has been exposed in a massive data breach that impacts over 80 million people served by the medical insurer. According to Anthem’s own website established to address this breach, no medical records or
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Do cellphones cause cancer?
Popular YouTube science series Veritasium asks the question everyone has on their minds, “Do cellphones cause brain tumors?” Rather than drowning you in scientific mumbo-jumbo, science blogger Derek Muller explains in easy-to-understand terms why popular opinion says, “Yes” when science says, “No.”
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Do cellphones cause cancer?
Popular YouTube science series Veritasium asks the question everyone has on their minds, “Do cellphones cause brain tumors?” Rather than drowning you in scientific mumbo-jumbo, science blogger Derek Muller explains in easy-to-understand terms why popular opinion says, “Yes” when science says, “No.”
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Facebook users get trojaned by fake video
Like the predictable “tick-tock” of a clock, reports are coming in of an infection spreading rapidly through Facebook via a fake Flash Update. The “tick” in this case was the report last week of a zero-day Flash vulnerability, and the subsequent legitimate update of the Adobe Flash plug-in. Not wanting to miss an opportunity, cybercriminals
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