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The three things you need to do to protect yourself online
And taping over your webcam isn't one of them, says Google's cybersecurity chief Gerhard Eschelbeck.
And taping over your webcam isn't one of them, says Google's cybersecurity chief Gerhard Eschelbeck.
Telegram is a messaging app that promotes itself as a safe, secure option. Here's the unfortunate truth.
Mark Zuckerberg does it and you probably should too: Tape over your laptop's video and audio portals for basic, cheap security.
Leaderless cryptocurrency experiment has been hacked and will be closed down.
Adobe has patched its problematic web plug-in for just the latest of a string of critical security flaws.
The Facebook boss' Twitter and Pinterest accounts were compromised this week. Here's how you can do better.
Hackers change chat history, potentially spreading malware or engaging in fraud.
A destructive scam email has successfully targeted 10,000 Australians since it was detected this week, a security analyst says.
Charging smartphones over USB is extremely convenient but security vendor Kaspersky Lab cautions that not every USB port is safe to use.
360 million accounts from when Myspace was cool have been compromised.
A 2012 data breach that was thought to have exposed 6.5 million hashed passwords for LinkedIn users instead likely impacted many more.
Finnish whiz kid isn't even old enough to sign up for an account, according to Facebooks terms of service.
Security breach results in some users' email addresses being compromised.
Even if a crook skims your card or buys your card number online, how do they make purchases on the web without the CVV?
Agency director James Comey says price was higher than the amount he'll make in the remainder of his tenure, and he has more than seven years to go.
Now that Apple has abandoned the software on Windows, hackers will be looking to exploit is vulnerabilities to take control of your machine.
Australians are being urged to think twice before transferring funds or handing over sensitive information at work amid a global spike in business-focused spear-phishing attacks.
Using little more than a $7 computer and some custom software, attackers can create a Wi-Fi network that will brick any recent iPad in range, assuming the device is not updated to the latest version of iOS. iPhones are harder to brick, but are still vulnerable.
Little-known Japanese company at the centre of a legal tussle between Apple and the US government over the hacking of an iPhone built its business on pinball game machines and stumbled into the mobile phone security business almost by accident.
Private information of more than a million customers of online takeaway giant Menulog such as names and addresses is at risk of being stolen, with experts deeming the website as "vulnerable" and "not secure".