Imagine sitting down to your computer or swiping your phone and discovering a message that says if you want your files back then send bitcoins to a complicated looking address.…
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The U.S. and China are at war, only it’s not with guns, bombs and missiles. You won’t see burned out homes on television or streams of refugees leaving cities but…
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Hackers are clever, frequently using some feature of a website that was put there for convenience as a way in to get even more valuable information. That’s exactly what happened…
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You do all the right things like running antivirus software and being careful about the websites you visit and it can still happen, you can still get hacked. Exploits are…
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As everyone knows, the “People’s” “Republic” of China employs armies of hackers to perform corporate espionage and subvert foreign computer systems. This year there was even an indictment in US…
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The charts don’t lie, and the data plainly show that Bitcoin remains on a slow but steady price decline. A little over a month ago, prices were near $700 — but it’s been…
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Bitcoin values slid again in the wake of hacking facilitated by a flaw in the digital currency’s central software systems. If that wasn’t enough, government regulators are moving ahead on…
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Superstore Target is doing its best to make up for the huge security breach it suffered over the Black Friday shopping weekend by offering customers 10% off everything in store…
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In case you missed it, Target admitted they had a massive data breach over the Black Friday Thanksgiving weekend. They reported that stolen information was gathered on 40 million credit…