During the summer, many students and other young people need a job to augment that crucial time around the local swimming pool catching up with friends. In the past, restaurant work or odd jobs provided a little income and time out of the house away fr…
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On Monday, a First American Financial customer named David Gritz filed a class-action lawsuit against the real-estate title insurer for an alleged data breach exposing 885 million files. The breach was reported last week by cybersecurity researchers wh…
Video gaming is now the world’s largest entertainment industry – bigger than music, even bigger than Hollywood. That means, for game developers and publishers, it’s also the most profitable place to be.
Whether we know it or not, every move we make is being tracked by smartphones and apps. And the data collected can reveal a lot: where we live, where we go, what we do, who we know, how we communicate, and our personal habits.
In 2016, American democracy was hacked. Can cybersecurity prevent meddling next time?
This week TechCrunch reported that the Chinese company TP-Link had not addressed a vulnerability in its routers first discovered in 2017. The issue allows hackers to remotely take control of the routers by guessing weak default passwords that come with…
Call it the Case of the $200,000 Typo.
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Rain Networks isn’t your average IT solutions distributor. Starting operations in 2003, the Seattle-based company initially sold antivirus software solutions to vendors that were trying to build a North American presence. Soon …
Europol takes down cybercrime supermarket
In a joint effort by six countries, Europol led a complicated international operation to take down the GozNym malware cybercriminal network. The network preyed on over 40,000 victi…