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Hackers Attack ASUS Live Update Planting Malware
Update! Following the article below, Kaspersky Labs have released a tool to help users identify if they have been affected by the malware. You can learn more by visiting the website here! ASUS Live Update If you own ASUS technology, be it on a PC or (more likely) laptop, then…
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Senior Departure At Facebook Fires Shots At Mark Zuckerberg?
Senior Staff Member Issues Strange Resignation Letter Over the last few months, there has been a number of movements within the senior Facebook team with many long-term members leaving the company. While all of these departures have largely seemed to be amicable chief product officer Chris Cox may have fired…
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Website Launches To Teach Kids About Online Dangers
Website Uses Animation & Games To Teach About Online Dangers In this day and age of smartphones and games consoles, it’s hard to avoid the reality that sooner or later your kids are going to have relatively free access to the internet. This, by proxy, will likely mean interacting with…
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Google Warns Windows 7 Chrome Users To Update Immediately!
Google Warns Of “Serious” Windows 7 Bug Despite Microsoft’s best efforts, there is still a remarkably high number of people clinging to Windows 7 rather than making the update to 10. With the operating system having less than a year of official support left, however, users are, sooner or later,…
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New ‘Spoiler’ Intel Security Vulnerability Is Found
Intel ‘Spoiler’ Vulnerability Throughout most of 2018, Intel was having to deal with a rather disturbing security flaw with their processor design. In it’s simplest terms, two differing flaws were found called ‘Spectre’ and ‘Meltdown’. While the jury was out as to how much of a risk these posed to…
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If Your Password Is “ji32k7au4a83” You Might Want To Change It
How Good Is Your Password? These days, we are regularly prompted to change our passwords for one reason or another. In fact, it has even gotten to the point that I have so many complex passwords that I’ve stopped trying to remember them and have instead reverted to a bizarrely…
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UK To Extend Airport ‘No Fly Zone’ For Drones
UK To Extend Drone ‘No Fly Zones’ Purchasing a drone can be a very inexpensive way to have a lot of fun. With the cost making them more accessible, however, there will always be some people who decide to either abuse their use or fly them in completely ridiculous places.…
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UK Cyber Security Hints That Huawei Could Be Used For 5G
UK May Accept Limited Huawei 5G Involvement Within the next 5-years, most of the major countries in the Western world will be looking to implement the new 5G system of wireless internet. Over the last few months, however, one of the biggest talking points has not been the system. Rather,…
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Twitter Is Still Retaining Deleted Direct Messages
Twitter Is Keeping Your Deleted Direct Messages In this modern world of social media, I’m sure that at this point nearly everyone has dropped a messaging faux pas. This can, of course, vary. Perhaps an ill-advised comment. Perhaps a message to an ex you wish you’d never sent. With Twitter,…
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Pwn2Own Competitive Places Tesla Model 3 As Hack Target
Pwn2Own This year’s Pwn2Own competition is shortly set to begin in Vancouver. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, it is essentially one of the biggest annual competitions in which hackers are set various security challenges to try and overcome. There is, however, something of an incentive this year…
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New Ring Door View Smart Cam Sits Over Existing Peephole
Converts your Peephole into a Smart Cam Amazon acquired security company Ring several months ago for over a billion dollars. Obviously home security is a concern for Amazon since their business requires front-door deliveries. They have even gone as far as offering smart locks in conjunction with actually allowing couriers…
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Hackers Target Chromecast Devices to Promote PewDiePie
PewDiePie Promoted by Hackers Swedish video-game vlogger PewDiePie got an unlikely help with his subscription campaign recently when hackers took over Chromecast devices to promote his channel. PewDiePie is currently in a subscription-count war with T-series, an Indian music video channel. Both are vying for the most amount of subscribers…
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Hand Made of Wax Used to Fool Vein Authentication Security
Biometric Security Workaround Hackers have found an ingenious way to circumvent vein authentication security, through a fake wax hand. Vein authentication is one of the latest developments when it comes to biometric security. Going beyond mere fingerprints, iris or facial recognition. As the name suggests, vein authentication uses a scan of…
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EPIC Games CEO Denies Sharing User Data with TenCent
Does EPIC Collect and Share User Data via the EPIC Games Store? With the EPIC Games Store launching and eventually gaining steam, users are raising concerns regarding the platform’s Terms of Service. A post by /u/Amnail on Reddit raising questions about this has even gone viral recently. So much so…
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New Netflix Phishing Scam Has Been Identified
Netflix Phishing Scam Anyone who has regularly used the internet will be aware that there are more than a few minefields to dodge when it comes to scams. For example, I regularly receive e-mails telling me about purchases made on my Apple account. While I haven’t, of course, made any…
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