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Facebook Inc. has patched a security vulnerability that allowed any user to access and then delete any photo uploaded by another user. The vulnerability, discovered by security researcher Pouya Darabi, involves a coding issue in a recently release polling feature launched by the social network. …
Trend Micro acquires Immunio to boost its software development security offering
Security firm Trend Micro Inc. has acquired Montréal, Canada-based Immunio Inc., a startup specializing in web application security, for an undisclosed price. Founded in 2013, Immunio sells a platform that offers runtime self-protection technology, which protects web apps against application-layer attacks. The platform …
Three Chinese nationals indicted over alleged state-sponsored hacking
Three Chinese nationals have been indited by the U.S. Department of Justice on allegations that they were behind the hacking of Moody’s Corp., Siemens AG and Trimble Inc. between 2011 and the middle of this year. The indictment names Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia …
UK law would require drone users to pass safety awareness tests
The United Kingdom is set to be the latest country to crack down on the use of drones as it published draft laws that would require some drone users to pass safety awareness tests, among other things. The proposed legislation, aimed at preventing …
Hacking group injects porn and fake news into Islamic State websites
A clever group of hackers in Iraq is taking the good fight to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria by inserting fake news and pornography into web pages controlled by the group. Going by the name of Daeshgram, which is a play on …
Bitcoin surges through $9,000 as report claims up to 23% of bitcoin may be permanently lost
The price of bitcoin surged past $9,000 for the first time on Sunday for a new record high as a new report claimed that as many as 23 percent of all bitcoin may be permanently lost, creating further scarcity in a market with …
Report: FBI failed to warn targets of Russian-linked hacking group
The Federal Bureau of Investigation knew the Russian-linked Fancy Bear hacking group was targeting U.S. government officials for at least a year and failed to notify all but a handful of the targets, according to a report from the Associated Press. In what …
Email addresses and passwords stolen in hack of image-sharing site Imgur
Popular image-sharing site Imgur Inc. has disclosed that it was hacked back in 2014, with the details of 1.7 million users stolen. The hack was first detected by Troy Hunt of data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned, who had the stolen data sent …
Elon Musk warns there’s only a small chance artificial intelligence won’t kill us all
Elon Musk is back on the artificial intelligence scaremongering bandwagon, saying in a recent talk that AI is probably going to kill us all. The Tesla Inc. chief executive made the comments talking to employees at his neurotechnology company Neuralink Inc., a startup developing “high bandwidth and safe brain-machine interfaces.” …
Uber faces multiple investigations as former CEO is linked to hacking cover-up
Uber Technology Inc.’s woes continue to go from bad to worse as authorities in four countries launched probes into Uber’s hacking and subsequent cover-up of a serious hacking last year of 57 million customer records. Moreover, there are new claims that former Chief …