Economy
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Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords
Enlarge (credit: Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Google has given the boot to nine Android apps downloaded more than…
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Thinking about selling your Echo Dot—or any IoT device? Read this first
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Like most Internet-of-things devices these days, Amazon’s Echo Dot gives users a way to perform a…
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Robinhood ordered to pay $70m penalty to US regulator
Enlarge A Wall Street regulator has ordered the retail trading platform Robinhood to pay more than $70m in penalties for…
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Musk aims to cut Starlink user terminal price from $500 to as low as $250
Enlarge / SpaceX CEO Elon Musk speaks via a video link at Mobile World Congress on June 29, 2021 in…
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Microsoft digitally signs malicious rootkit driver
Enlarge Microsoft gave its digital imprimatur to a rootkit that decrypted encrypted communications and sent them to attacker-controlled servers, the…
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Hackers exploited 0-day, not 2018 bug, to mass-wipe My Book Live devices
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last week’s mass-wiping of Western Digital My Book Live storage devices involved the exploitation of not…
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SolarWinds hackers breach new victims, including a Microsoft support agent
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The nation-state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack compromised a Microsoft worker’s computer and…
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A well-meaning feature leaves millions of Dell PCs vulnerable
Enlarge / Dell has released a patch for a set of vulnerabilities that left as many as 30 million devices…
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NFC flaws let researchers hack an ATM by waving a phone
Enlarge (credit: Chalongrat Chuvaree | Getty Images) For years, security researchers and cybercriminals have hacked ATMs by using all possible…
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“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted
Enlarge (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug My…
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