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TIME TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD AGAIN

711 Million Email Addresses Ensnared In 'Largest' Malware Spambot

5 diggs zdnet.com Technology Security Crime News 6h

The spambot has collected millions of email credentials and server login information in order to send spam through "legitimate" servers, defeating many spam filters.

WE CAN HEAR YOU NOW

Millions Of Verizon Customer Records Exposed In Security Lapse

14 diggs zdnet.com News Security Internet 12 Jul

Customer records for at least 14 million subscribers, including phone numbers and account PINs, were exposed.

NOTHING CONCERNING ABOUT THAT

With A Single Wiretap Order, US Authorities Listened In On 3.3 Million Phone Calls

13 diggs zdnet.com Criminal Justice 1 Jul

The wiretap cost the authorities $335,000 to conduct and led to a dozen arrests. But the authorities noted that the surveillance effort led to no incriminating intercepts, and none of the handful of those arrested have been brought to trial or convicted.

NOBODY'S PERFECT

Microsoft Says 'No Known Ransomware' Runs On Windows 10 S — So We Tried To Hack It

13 diggs zdnet.com Technology 23 Jun

We wanted to see if such a bold claim could hold up. Spoiler alert: it didn't.

THAT'S ONE OUT OF THREE AMERICANS

198 Million Americans Hit By 'Largest Ever' Voter Records Leak

11 diggs zdnet.com News Technology Politics Security 19 Jun

Personal data on 198 million voters, including analytics data that suggests who a person is likely to vote for and why, was stored on an unsecured Amazon server.

THE INTERNET'S HANS BRINKER

Meet Chris Vickery, The Internet's Data Breach Hunter

7 diggs zdnet.com Technology Security Culture Long Reads 26 Apr

His job is simple: Find leaked and exposed data before the bad guys do.

GET WITH THE PROGRAM

Which Programming Languages Are Most Popular (And What Does That Even Mean)?

29 diggs zdnet.com Technology 19 Dec 2016

Popularity may not be a single vector answer, but students and professionals still want to know if they're guiding their careers and companies in the right direction.

BOOK REPORTED

How An Amazon Kindle Scam Made Millions Of Dollars

18 diggs zdnet.com Internet Business Crime 28 Sep 2016

Valeriy Shershnyov hoodwinked Amazon customers into buying low-quality ebooks, which were boosted on the online marketplace by an unscrupulous system of bots, scripts, and virtual servers.

THE SHADOW BROKERS

Inside The Global Terror Watchlist That Secretly Shadows Millions

11 diggs zdnet.com Internet Business Crime Long Reads 30 Jun 2016

The database contains profiles on millions of "heightened-risk individuals," and is used by dozens of leading banks, governments, and spy agencies.

NOT CLEAR IF THIS WAS INTENTIONAL

Apple Made It Harder For The Feds To Force You To Unlock Your iPhone

14 diggs zdnet.com Technology Law 20 May 2016

iPhones and iPads equipped with a Touch ID fingerprint sensor will now ask for a passcode if it hasn't been unlocked with a fingerprint in the past eight hours.

ONLY '90S KIDS WILL REMEMBER

A 23-Year-Old Windows 3.1 System Failure Crashed A Paris Airport

9 diggs zdnet.com Technology Curious Internet 17 Nov 2015

Some of the most important networks and systems today are woefully outdated. And that isn't always a bad thing.

BEYOND THE PIN

China Developing ATM With Face Recognition

5 diggs zdnet.com Economics Technology World 2 Jun 2015

Engineers are developing the first ATM in China with facial recognition technology to identify users of bank cards.

MEET 'VENOM'

Bigger Than Heartbleed

20 diggs zdnet.com Technology 13 May 2015

Move over, Heartbleed. There's a new catastrophic vulnerability in town. A security research firm is warning that a new bug could allow a hacker to take over vast portions of a datacenter — from within.

BANKING ON THE FUTURE

A Glimpse Into The Future Of Money

11 diggs zdnet.com Economics Business Technology 11 Feb 2015

In Spain, where smartphone use is the norm and peer-to-peer lending is taking off, banks' shift from payment processors to financial services advisors is particularly noticeable.

THUNDERSTRIKE

Macs Vulnerable To Virtually Undetectable Virus That 'Can't Be Removed'

49 diggs zdnet.com Technology 12 Jan 2015

A security researcher has discovered a way to infect Macs with malware virtually undetectable, that "can't be removed," and which can be installed using a modified Apple gigabit Ethernet Thunderbolt adapter.

WE'D RATHER USE KEN JENNINGS

Anyone Can Now Use IBM's Watson To Crunch Their Numbers

19 diggs zdnet.com Technology 8 Dec 2014

IBM has launched the public beta of Watson Analytics, its set of cloud-based predictive and analytics tools.

EVERYTHING HAPPENS IN BRAZIL THESE DAYS

Samsung Suffers Massive Robbery In Brazil

6 diggs zdnet.com Crime Business Technology 8 Jul 2014

Approximately $36M worth of products have been stolen from a São Paulo factory.

YOUR PARENTS WILL BE THRILLED

Registry Hack Enables Continued Updates For Windows XP

27 diggs zdnet.com Technology Curious 1 Jun 2014

A single registry setting makes Windows Update think your XP system is Windows XP POSReady, which will receive updates for another five years.

THIS IS WHY YOU CAN'T COPY

Government Breaches At All-Time High, Press Blunder Under-Reports By Millions

5 diggs zdnet.com News Media Politics Technology 8 Apr 2014

This is one of those articles that spoils your faith in mankind. Not only are government security incidents fully into holy-cow territory, the press is reporting numbers three magnitudes too low because someone misread a chart and everyone else copied that report.

HACKONOMICS

Stolen Twitter Accounts 'More Valuable' Than Credit Cards

15 diggs zdnet.com Internet Crime 27 Mar 2014

According to a new report, the value of Twitter accounts on the black market for hacked wares has eclipsed the value of stolen credit card data.