Browsing the "years" Tag

Facial recognition: EU considers ban of up to five years

January 17th, 2020 📆 | 5703 Views ⚑

Image copyright Getty Images The European Commission has revealed it is considering a ban on the use of facial recognition

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Couple sentenced to 5 years in prison for hacking 700 banking accounts

January 16th, 2020 📆 | 3207 Views ⚑

Thanks to an investigation by the UK Cybercrime Unit, in collaboration with ethical hacking experts, a couple was arrested and

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Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will Take Years

January 11th, 2020 📆 | 5729 Views ⚑

In March of last year, Mark Zuckerberg made a dramatic pledge: Facebook would apply end-to-end encryption to user communications across

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60 call center scammers sentenced to 20 years in prison

January 11th, 2020 📆 | 4958 Views ⚑

Cybercrime is being severely beaten worldwide. Hitesh Madhubhai Patel, originally from India, has just pleaded guilty of being involved in

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Facebook Says Encrypting Messenger by Default Will Take Years

January 10th, 2020 📆 | 3851 Views ⚑

In March of last year, Mark Zuckerberg made a dramatic pledge: Facebook would apply end-to-end encryption to user communications across

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Scammer Who Tricked Facebook and Google Out of $120 Million Gets 5 Years in Jail

January 10th, 2020 📆 | 3764 Views ⚑

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Happy Birthday Bitcoin! 11 years since first software release

January 9th, 2020 📆 | 1996 Views ⚑

Happy Birthday Bitcoin! Yes, Bitcoin is officially 11 years old today, the date Satoshi Nakamoto released version 0.1 of the

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Python 2.7 Reaches End of Life After 20 Years of Development

January 3rd, 2020 📆 | 7546 Views ⚑

As of January 1st, 2020, Python 2.7 has officially reached the end of life and will no longer receive security

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30 years of ransomware: How one bizarre attack laid the foundations for the malware taking over the world

January 1st, 2020 📆 | 3000 Views ⚑

The bizarre story of the first ransomware attack Danny Palmer explains how the world’s first ever ransomware attack happened in

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FISA Court Warned Multiple Times For Years About FISA Abuse and Yet Did Nothing Until Now Proving It’s Another Obama Corrupted Institution

December 31st, 2019 📆 | 7084 Views ⚑

FISA Courtroom Warned A number of Occasions For Years About FISA Abuse and But Did Nothing Till Now Proving It’s

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10 Years Of Bitcoin Breakthroughs And Bombshells

December 29th, 2019 📆 | 1837 Views ⚑

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Dasuki: DSS releases Jonathan’s NSA after 4 years incarceration

December 24th, 2019 📆 | 1840 Views ⚑

Former National Security Adviser to ex President Goodluck Jonathan, Sambo Dasuki, has been released from the custody of the Department

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Suez survivor doesn’t own a computer… but software firm still took his cash for YEARS

December 22nd, 2019 📆 | 3156 Views ⚑

The sale of anti-virus computer software is creating a new scam – with some unscrupulous providers dipping into people’s bank

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Five years for the man who scammed Facebook and Google out of $120m by cunning use of email • DigitalMunition

December 20th, 2019 📆 | 8036 Views ⚑

A Lithuanian hacker will spend the next five years behind bars for masterminding a massive $120m (£92.05m) business email compromise

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Computer Security Day 31 years later: what security precautions should businesses be taking?

December 15th, 2019 📆 | 7660 Views ⚑

On 30th November every year, Computer Security Day serves as a reminder to businesses to protect their technology. Since the

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Over 93% of Healthcare Organizations have Suffered a Data Breach in the Past 5 Years

December 12th, 2019 📆 | 3225 Views ⚑

According to recent research conducted by Black Book Market Research, 93% of US Healthcare organizations surveyed had suffered a data

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Romanian cryptojackers sentenced to 20 years in prison

December 11th, 2019 📆 | 3793 Views ⚑

Two Romanian cryptojackers have been sentenced to prison in the United States. The two were the leaders of a malware

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20 years in prison for sending malware emails and infecting computers

December 11th, 2019 📆 | 8328 Views ⚑

According to ethical hacking specialists, two Romanian citizens have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for infecting more than

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27 Years Later, Senators Want Inquiry into Barr’s Blessing of Call Logs Collection

December 6th, 2019 📆 | 7946 Views ⚑

WASHINGTON — Two Democratic senators asked the Justice Department’s internal ethics watchdog on Thursday to investigate Attorney General William P.

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NIST official says post-quantum environment still years away — FCW

December 5th, 2019 📆 | 6853 Views ⚑

Cybersecurity NIST official says post-quantum environment still years away By Derek B. Johnson Dec 05, 2019   Despite recent industry

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Hackers Find Ways Around a Years-Old Microsoft Outlook Fix

December 4th, 2019 📆 | 4881 Views ⚑

Email has long been a major weak link for security; the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton's campaign were infamously

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OnePlus Reports Second Data Breach in Two Years

November 25th, 2019 📆 | 5243 Views ⚑

OnePlus is reporting the second breach of customer data in as many years. A member of the security team informed

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OnePlus reveals its second website data breach in two years

November 23rd, 2019 📆 | 6482 Views ⚑

Early in 2018, popular cellphone maker OnePlus revealed it had coughed up credit card information on over 40,000 users in

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OnePlus discloses data breach, less than two years after the last one

November 23rd, 2019 📆 | 6753 Views ⚑

OnePlus has suffered a data breach: the company says an “unauthorized party” accessed some customers’ order information. In a statement,

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