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    You're Still Not Safe: 318,000 Servers Are Still Vulnerable To Heartbleed

    You're not out of the woods yet, Web users. It seems like ages ago in Internet time that Heartbleed was first discovered. The massive OpenSSL vulnerability…

    By Zach Epstein May 9th, 2014 Read More
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    Major Dropbox Vulnerability Revealed - And Has Already Been Patched

    In a blog post early Tuesday morning, Dropbox revealed a vulnerability with its shared links. The popular cloud storage company said that shared links to some…

    By Ben Zigterman May 7th, 2014 Read More
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    Target's CEO Is The Latest Victim Of The Massive Credit Card Hack

    Target on Monday announced that Gregg Steinhafel, the company's CEO, President and Chairman of the board, has stepped down from all positions following the massive…

    By Chris Smith May 5th, 2014 Read More
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    Meet The Two Men Responsible For Protecting The Internet

    Last month, the Heartbleed bug was revealed as a major vulnerability in the world's most popular encryption method, OpenSSL. Since Heartbleed was uncovered, we still don't…

    By Ben Zigterman May 2nd, 2014 Read More
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    Why The NSA Might Not Say Anything About The Next 'Heartbleed'

    Secretive agencies like the National Security Agency will not hurry to disclose future Heartbleed-like security issues, or at least they won't always be interested in…

    By Chris Smith April 30th, 2014 Read More
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    How To Tell If Any Of Your Accounts Have Been Hacked

    Internet users have obviously known for some time that hackers pose a serious threat, but we all got a shocking reminder when security researchers revealed…

    By Zach Epstein April 28th, 2014 Read More
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    Android Users, Beware: Simple Wallpaper Apps Found To Secretly Mine Bitcoin

    Not long ago it was discovered that a couple of Google Play Store Android applications that were downloaded anywhere from one million to five million…

    By Chris Smith April 25th, 2014 Read More
  • Android Apps Vulnerable To Heartbleed Have Been Downloaded 150 Million Times

    Patching up Android to make sure it's not vulnerable to Heartbleed is one thing. Patching all vulnerable Android apps, on the other hand, is quite…

    By Brad Reed April 24th, 2014 Read More
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    Here's How To See Everything That Facebook Knows About You

    Watch Dogs is already one of the most hyped game releases of the spring, but Ubisoft's clever marketing campaign might convince a whole new crowd to…

    By Jacob Siegal April 23rd, 2014 Read More
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    Life After Heartbleed: 'The Internet Will Never Be 100% Safe'

    Heartbleed was an abrupt but necessary reminder that when it comes to the Internet, nothing is safe. The massive OpenSSL security hole was discovered earlier…

    By Zach Epstein April 23rd, 2014 Read More
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    State Of The Hack: 43% Of All DDoS Attacks In Q4 Originated In China

    The threat from hackers is very real and a new report shows that things are only getting worse. We recently told you about a terrifying…

    By Zach Epstein April 23rd, 2014 Read More
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    iPhone Malware Exists, But The Risk Is Nothing Like It Is With Android

    While most reports detail Android malware efforts from malicious parties looking to take advantage of Android's popularity in order to steal personal data and money from users,…

    By Chris Smith April 21st, 2014 Read More
  • ACTA Anti-piracy Treaty Defeated

    'Highly Sophisticated Malware' Stole Credit Card Data From 3M Michaels Customers

    After LaCie announced earlier this week it was the victim of a massive credit card breach that lasted for a year, crafts store Michaels revealed…

    By Chris Smith April 18th, 2014 Read More
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    New Google Technology Tears Apart CAPTCHA Puzzles

    If there's one thing more annoying than passwords, it's CAPTCHA puzzles that websites use to screen out robots from registering for accounts. However, Google has…

    By Brad Reed April 17th, 2014 Read More
  • Why Heartbleed Could Be Much Worse For Android Users

    Even though Google does not have a Heartbleed problem, particularly since the company has known about the OpenSSL bug a month before everyone else, a large number…

    By Chris Smith April 16th, 2014 Read More
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    LaCie Is The Latest Victim Of Massive Credit Card Breach

    French company LaCie, maker of various storage solutions, on Tuesday announced that it has been the victim of a massive attack that exposed the personal…

    By Chris Smith April 16th, 2014 Read More
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    Galaxy S5's Fingerprint Scanner Has Already Been Hacked, PayPal Accounts At Risk

    When it comes to Samsung's fingerprint scanner technology embedded in the home button on the new Galaxy S5, there's good news and bad news. The…

    By Zach Epstein April 15th, 2014 Read More
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    Here's How To Protect Yourself With Two-Step Verification On 11 Top Websites

    Heartbleed is a very scary bug that came to light recently and once again sent the Internet into a frenzy with talk about how to protect yourself…

    By Zach Epstein April 14th, 2014 Read More
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    This Free Android App Could Save Your Phone From The Heartbleed Bug

    The NSA has apparently known about Heartbleed for years, but the general public was only made aware of the devastating bug a few days ago. Many…

    By Jacob Siegal April 11th, 2014 Read More
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    Trying To Protect Yourself From Heartbleed Could Land You In Jail

    The recently uncovered massive Heartbleed vulnerability affecting 66% of websites is currently being patched by many companies, but several online services already offer users the means…

    By Chris Smith April 11th, 2014 Read More
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    This Plugin Will Warn You Immediately When You Visit A Site Affected By Heartbleed

    Heartbleed is one of the most widespread vulnerabilities we have seen in recent years — it impacted an estimated 66% of the entire Internet at…

    By Zach Epstein April 10th, 2014 Read More
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    What To Do About Heartbleed, The Massive Security Bug That Affects Us All

    Heartbleed is a scary, scary bug. Without getting into the technical aspects of this recently discovered security hole, it's an issue with OpenSSL, the security…

    By Zach Epstein April 9th, 2014 Read More
  • Hugely Popular Android Security App Revealed As A Complete Scam

    As we've noted before, there are definite downsides to Google's policy of allowing all apps onto the Google Play store and only removing them after users flag…

    By Brad Reed April 7th, 2014 Read More
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    Most Sophisticated Android Malware Yet Has Already Infected Millions

    Android is still the most targeted mobile platform out there in terms of mobile malware, considering the reports that keep detailing ways that hackers can take…

    By Chris Smith April 4th, 2014 Read More
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    This App Just Made It Super-Easy For Android Users To Keep Their Passwords Secure

    As we've mentioned in the past, passwords are an enormous pain, especially since keeping them secure these days often means switching them up every couple…

    By Brad Reed March 28th, 2014 Read More
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    Video: Here's How Google Handles 50,000 Government Requests In A Year

    In every transparency report from Google since 2009, the number of requests from the government has increased at a steady pace, but 2013 represents the largest…

    By Jacob Siegal March 27th, 2014 Read More
  • Bitcoins

    Legit Google Play Apps Found To Be Covertly Mining Digital Currency

    In addition to Android apps sideloaded from unsecure third parties, which can contain malicious code that can turn devices into slow cryptocurrency miners, antivirus provider…

    By Chris Smith March 27th, 2014 Read More
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