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What To Do When You Get Locked Out Of Your Social Media Accounts
There you are just wanting to get on with some casual Facebooking but all of a sudden you can’t get into your account — and what you thought were your username and password aren’t working any longer. If you find yourself locked out of one of your social media accounts, take a deep breath, and…
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Hacktivist Targets Citizen, Leaking Crime App’s Scraped Data to the Dark Web
“Fuck snitches, fuck Citizen, fuck Andrew Frame and remember, kids: Cops are not your friends,” someone on the dark web recently wrote. That same person claims to have scraped and leaked data from the aforementioned crime reporting app — including information about some 1.7 million public safety “incidents” recorded and cataloged by the company, Motherboard…
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Dutton Is Coming For Encrypted Messaging Services
The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission (ACIC) says there’s no justifiable reason why a law-abiding citizen would need to use an encrypted communication platform like Signal, Telegram or ProtonMail In a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) as part of the inquiry into the Surveillance Legislation Amendment (Identify and Disrupt) Bill…
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Hackers Are Swarming Microsoft Exchange
Those Microsoft Exchange security flaws you may have heard about are really getting pummelled. If ever there was a time for cybersecurity reporters to trot out metaphors involving phrases like “blood in the water” and “deranged swarm of piranhas,” it might be right now.