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Facebook Reveals 270 million accounts fakes duplicates

Facebook reveals that its 270 Million Accounts are Fakes or duplicates

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Facebook is considered as the largest social media network with 2.07 billion active users per month. However, according to the third-quarter earnings report released on Wednesday, the social media giant has confessed that up to 270 million accounts on the network are fake or duplicates or illegitimate, which is somewhat more than it had previously […]

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Disqus hacked 17.5 Million users Details stolen 2012 breach

Disqus Hacked: More than 17.5 Million Users’ Details Stolen in 2012 Breach

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This time the popular commenting system has fallen victim to a massive security breach. isqus, the company which provides a web-based comment plugin for websites and blogs, has admitted that it was breached 5 years ago in July 2012 and hackers stole details of more than 17.5 million users. The stolen data includes email addresses,

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Your Web History Can Be Traced Even After Anonymity, According To Researchers

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A team of German researchers shared that an individual’s secret web history and habit can be traced. Surprisingly, even after it goes under anonymity, it can be revealed. Security experts Svea Eckert and Andreas Dewes did their research with 3 million Germans, out of which some were public personalities. ou think nobody will get to

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Web Hosting Company Pays $1 Million To Hackers for Ransomware Encrypted Files

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South Korean web hosting provider has agreed to pay $1 million in bitcoins to hackers after a Linux ransomware infected its 153 servers, encrypting 3,400 business websites and their data, hosted on them. ccording to a blog post published by NAYANA, the web hosting company, this unfortunate event happened on 10th June when ransomware malware

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Who is Behind WannaCry Ransomware Cyberattack? Was It North Korea

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Research conducted by one of Google’s security experts – Neel Mehta – has thrown up a possible connection between the Lazarus hacker group and the WannaCry ransomware that has been wrecking havoc across the globe. The Link ! ! !! lan Woodward, a UK based cyber security professor, has made this claim based on the

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WannaCry 2.0 ransomware, is here to wreak havoc

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Never in history has a ransomware brought more than half the world’s computers to a standstill. On Friday, May 12, 2017, the computers around the world were crippled by the biggest ransomware attack known as “WannaCry” (“WanaCrypt0r 2.0” or “WannaCrypt” or “WCry”) that targeted Microsoft’s Windows run PCs/laptops and ATMs. his malware attack that infected

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