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Online games: 5 risks to your online security and privacy

We all love playing online games; from time to time until late in the night on our mobile devices, gaming consoles, or  computer. One of the most amazing things about gaming now,  is that we are  connected to the whole world and can interact with  each other in many ways. To do so, we are required  to set up accounts on game platforms and talk to people we don’t know at all.

Play online with no lag, no interruptions, and maximum safety

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Shopping online is one of the reasons why we love the internet, but it’s not the only one. Video games are also a major reason. With more than 155 million Americans playing on their PC, game console, smartphone, wireless device or handheld system, gaming is more popular than going to the movies or listening to music.

How to protect your account after the Dailymotion hack

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After the massive data breaches of web giants Dropbox, Badoo, MySpace, Tumblr, LinkedIn and Yahoo! in September 2016 (the biggest massive piracy of individual data against a single company never made public), Dailymotion, one of the most visited video platforms in the world has been attacked. The French online video giant remains behind YouTube, bringing in more than 300 million unique visitors per month. More than 85 million accounts are affected by this massive data leak, which still makes it one of the most important attacks of the year.

One of the most important attacks of the year

LeakedSource sounded the alarm this week by acquiring some of the stolen data. According to them, Dailymotion’s database was victim to an intrusion in early October which allowed the hackers to recover the data of more than 85 million users: mainly identifiers, passwords and email addresses.

 

Avast Releases Four Free Ransomware Decryptors

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Within the last year, ransomware has risen to become the new “it” malware we have seen a 105% year over year growth in ransomware attacks. Therefore, we are happy to announce today, that we have released four more ransomware decryption tools for the latest ransomware threats: Alcatraz Locker, CrySiS, Globe, and NoobCrypt. All the decryption tools are available, together with a detailed description of each ransomware strain. We now have tools to help you recover encrypted files if your computer has been infected with one of the following ransomware strains: