Hacker

Security at stake, again! Serial hacker returns to steal data of 26 mn users

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SAN FRANCISCO: The hacker, who earlier stole and posted personal data of close to 843 million users of various popular websites on a Dark Web marketplace, has now put up the fourth set of nearly 26 million hacked databases for sale. Hacker Gnosticplayers has put up the personal data of 26 million people using the services of six different companies globally … Read more

Cyber Saturday—E-Voting Security, Beto O’Rourke’s Hacker Days, Facebook Criminal Probe

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Howdy from Austin, Texas, where I’m filing today’s column from a taco shop as this year’s SXSW festival concludes. The security of electronic voting systems has become a hot button issue in recent years. Just this week researchers disclosed that they uncovered a critical flaw in an electronic voting system Switzerland plans to roll out. The vulnerability, … Read more