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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has had extraordinary success at building a social network that has attracted over a billion users. But that’s not to say that he’s had such luck in every other area of IT. Take securing his online accounts from attack, for instance. To misquote Oscar Wilde’s...

How do you think your customers would feel if they visited your business’s website one day and were greeted with an offensive image, malicious code, religious propaganda or a form designed to steal their passwords? My guess is that you wouldn’t be happy, and your customers would be concerned...

Do you use the same password for multiple sites? Do your eyes glaze over after sites like LinkedIn or Yahoo get massively hacked and, like clockwork, the security wonks come wagging their fingers at you for reusing your passwords? Do you shrug and say “Hey, it’s not my job to keep those sites...

This past weekend my wife's Facebook page got spoofed. We learned what was happening as her phone started a constant stream of alerts from family and friends with messages saying they had just received new friend requests from her. While many thought she had been hacked, in other words someone...

Australian authorities hacked Tor users in the US as part of a child pornography investigation, Motherboard has learned. The contours of this previously-unreported hacking operation have come to light through recently-filed US court documents. The case highlights how law enforcement around the...