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HTTPS is everywhere you look. Most social media sites use it, YouTube uses it, it’s a basic protocol for secure email, and any website that takes a credit card uses it as a bare minimum. And unfortunately, researchers have just

Barclays has announced that its personal banking customers will, starting this week, be able to use voice security technology over passwords. This would help customers avoid the need to answer various questions over the telephone to gain access to their

As over half a million fans descend on Rio for the summer Olympics kicking off on Friday, experienced fraudsters will be eyeing the deluge of international audiences drawn to this major sporting event, warns ACI Worldwide. Brazil has among the

For those that don’t know, the dark web (also known as Tor) is world wide web content that exists on hidden darkness and requires specific software, or authorization in order for users to get access to it. It’s most commonly

Security researcher Kirill Firsov found a data leak in the popular messaging app Telegram. In the OS X version, text that was copied-and-pasted into the app was also written to the file /var/log/system.log, better known as the syslog, creating a

Security researchers have discovered new malware designed to bypass traditional physical and cybersecurity which could be used in an attack to shut down an energy grid. SentinelOne’s Joseph Landry and Udi Shamir explained in a lengthy analysis that despite some

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian accused of scamming $60 million from companies around the world through fraudulent emails has been arrested after months of investigation, Interpol and Nigeria’s anti-fraud agency said Monday. One target paid out $15.4 million, according

Windows 10 will not load unsigned kernel mode drivers, starting with version 1607 of the operating system. This is something that had been announced back in 2015, but is only just being implemented. The decision was taken in order to