computer security
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T-Mobile Offers Free Identity Theft Protection After Hackers Steal Data on Millions of Customers
T-Mobile will offer two years of free identity theft protection services after hackers stole data on roughly 49 million U.S. customers and potential customers, according to a statement from the mobile carrier. The data breach only became public over the past weekend after hackers offered to sell the data for six bitcoin, or roughly $US272,400…
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Billions of Dollars Later, the U.S. Government Remains as Hackable as Ever
The United States is at no risk of being confused for a country with serious cybersecurity defences.
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PunkSpider — the Search Engine for Web Exploits — Rises From the Dead
One of the web’s most controversial cybersecurity projects is being brought back to life next week. PunkSpider — essentially a tool that crawls the internet to create a searchable database of hackable sites across the web — is being resurfaced at next week’s Defcon cybersecurity conference, WIRED reports. This is the first time people will…
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Hackers Stole a Terabyte of Data from Oil Giant Saudi Aramco
Cybercriminals have stolen approximately a terabyte of data from one of the world’s largest energy companies, Saudi Aramco.