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Here are the most controversial data breaches of 2018 that affected Indian users

Amid concerns of rising security threats globally, India has had its fair share of hacking-related…

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Jeff Bezos phone hack shows hackers are winning in the 'arms race' between governments and tech firms according to a cybersecurity expert

Jeff Bezos' phone being hacked is only one example of governments around the world are shelling out…

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Most of the top-earning Twitch streamers are men and only 3 women are part of the top 100, according to the data leak

Only three women made the list of the 100 top earners on the platform, excluding group channels, an…

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The computer repairman with Hunter Biden's laptop lost his lawsuit against Twitter and has to pay the company's legal fees

The repairman gave Biden's information to Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who sent it to the NY Post…

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Ransomware hits Jack Daniel's owner and Ritz London— investigation ongoing

The maker behind famous Jack Daniels bourbon whiskey along with Ritz London have become the latest …

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A QAnon influencer who claims to be from the future was released after spending 225 days in prison

Austin Steinbart, whose followers call him "Baby Q," leaked NFL players' medical records and led a …

Madison Hall   


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Some of the world's biggest Twitter accounts got hacked this week. Here's what we know about what happened.

Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kim Kardashian, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, and more have been hack…

Rob Price   


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A gang of hackers claims to have sold off all the data it has on President Trump and plans to auction its Madonna data next

The hackers behind the data dumps related to Lady Gaga and President Trump claim to have sold all t…

Jeff Elder   


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A famous techie created an $88 device that will let you 'hack' your car so that it can do new things

The idea is to let people "hack" their cars the same way they can tinker with and customize a compu…

Danielle Muoio   


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How to avoid having your computer hacked

Amanda Rousseau: You know, once you get onto a social media platform or a banking site, you're givi…

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This man's job was to hack the Pentagon. Now he invests millions in security startups.

His NSA experience also comes in handy when handing out advice. "If you are a one-person penetratio…

Charlie Wood   


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The 3 biggest hacks of 2017

Famous hacker group OurMine is back at it, hacking social media profiles to give the world know exa…

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Meet unicorn cybersecurity startup KnowBe4, which has a trickster CEO, a legendary felon as its 'chief hacking officer,' and a rumored IPO on the horizon

KnowBe4, a cybersecurity training startup, is rumored to have an upcoming IPO, and has a legendary …

Jeff Elder   


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An early investor in Facebook and Google has slammed them for 'aggressive brain hacking'

... the big Internet companies know more about you than you know about yourself, which gives them h…

Julie Bort   


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10 simple productivity hacks for finance professionals

Remove manual tasks whenever possible. Take the time to figure out all tasks that take up valuable …

Ernie Humphrey   


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The Facebook hack that exposed 30 million accounts shows we're going to be dealing with the consequences of its 'Move Fast' motto for years to come

But you can find the effects of the company's "Move Fast and Break Things" motto far beyond the lat…

Troy Wolverton   


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Apple is building a special portal for law enforcement officials to get user data — here's Apple's letter describing the plan

Reuters Apple, for example, responded to some 14,000 of these requests in the Uni…

Kif Leswing   


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Here's why the NSA won't release a 'smoking gun' implicating Russia in these major hacks

"I can tell you that if I got onto a machine today and I found a Russian backdoor and I started usi…

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A hacker explains why you shouldn't believe North Korea was behind the massive Sony hack

And it's interesting to note how strange it is for the president to call something like the Sony ha…

Paul Szoldra,Paul Szoldra,Pau…