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Don’t get suckered by fake breaking news
It’s an unfortunate but not unexpected state of affairs that hackers continue to take advantage of our voracious appetite for news. As has been happening with hot news stories for at least a year or more, malware links are cropping up to exploit the media frenzy surrounding missing Malaysian Flight MH370. Taking advantage of the
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Startup Poised to Disrupt Cellular Networks
If telecommunications startup Artemis has anything to say about it, bulky and costly cell towers like the one pictured here will be a thing of the past. Instead, they are hoping the nation’s cellular providers will buy into their new technology platform, dubbed “pCell” that they believe will revolutionize both network coverage and data speeds.
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Remote Access Trojan App Shows up on Google Store
About a year ago, I shared an article from Ars Technica detailing a chilling and degrading hacker activity called “ratting” wherein your computer could be hacked into covertly spying on you. This disturbing trend now appears to be spreading to Android smart phones; for a short while before it was detected and removed, a seemingly
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Thousands of SOHO Routers Hacked Globally
Illinois-based security firm Team Cymru has released research findings that point to a wide-spread compromise of consumer-grade routers that are commonly installed in homes and small offices all over the world. As many as 300K of these devices from a variety of manufacturers have been hacked to redirect network traffic to counterfeit banking sites and
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360M Account Credentials for Sale on Black Market
Security firm Hold Security LLC is reporting that a cache of 360 million account credentials are up for sale on the black market. Of the 360 million identities, 105 million of them may be from a single data breach, the size of which rivals Adobe’s breach (153 million) from October 2013. Also on sale are
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Prototype Wi-Fi Virus Spreads Like Biological Virus
It’s a common practice in the technology industry to describe computer viruses and the way they behave using the same terms and concepts as the medical industry, primarily because the reality of how digital viruses work is rather boring and technical. Up until now. In the “surprising no one” category of research findings, scientist in
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