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Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro is full of fail

Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro, a piece of software that allows users to log into their PCs or authenticate to configured websites using fingerprint recognition, has been …

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Strava user heatmap reveals patterns of life in western military bases

In November 2017, online fitness tracker Strava published a heatmap of the activity many of its users around the world engage in (and track) daily. But what might have seemed …

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Old Bitcoin transactions can come back to haunt you

A group of researchers from Qatar University and Hamad Bin Khalifa University have demonstrated how years-old Bitcoin transactions can be used to retroactively deanonymize …

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Facebook, Microsoft announce new privacy tools to comply with GDPR

In four months the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, and companies are racing against time to comply with the new rules (and avoid being brutally …

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Reddit rolls out 2-factor authentication for users

The 234 million or so unique Reddit users are finally getting the option of setting up 2-factor authentication for their account(s). Why is that important? With over 540 …

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Alphabet enters enterprise cybersecurity market, launches Chronicle

Google’s parent company Alphabet has announced its entry into the lucrative enterprise cybersecurity market through Chronicle, a company started in early 2016 as a …

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PCI Council sets security requirements for mobile point of sale solutions

The PCI Security Standards Council has announced a new PCI Security Standard for software-based PIN entry on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices such as smartphones and …

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Security in the enterprise: Things are looking up!

Cybersecurity is quickly becoming the number one business priority, says identity and access management company Okta. Based on the results of an analysis of authentication and …

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DuckDuckGo offers new privacy extension and app

DuckDuckGo, the company behind the eponymous privacy-minded Internet search engine, has announced a new browser extension and mobile app: DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. …

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Fake cryptocurrency wallet carries ransomware, leads to spyware

People around the world are rushing to acquire all kinds of cryptocurrency, hoping that prices will go up and they will be rolling in money when they sell their investment …

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Intel testing new Spectre fixes, tells everyone to hold off on deploying current firmware updates

Shortly after Red Hat stopped providing microcode to address variant 2 (branch target injection) of the Spectre attack, Intel has advised OEMs, cloud service providers, system …

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Human trafficking victims forced to defraud Chinese computer users

Late last week, the Croatian police executed a coordinated raid on two houses where 59 individuals were confined and forced into defrauding Chinese and Taiwanese computer and …

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