Spammers are emailing businesses, schools, and other locations in the US, Canada, and New Zealand, demanding bitcoin as ransom to not detonate a supposed bomb
and a ‘Terrible Strategy’ Francisco Memoria / CryptoGlobe : US Government Advises Bitcoin Bomb Threat Victims to Ignore Ransom, Inform the FBI Usman Qureshi / iPhone in Canada Blog : Bitcoin Scammers ...
Facebook rolling out tech that analyzes patterns to find fake accounts that can spread misinformation, malware, and falsely boost page rankings
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Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products, except those from its Amazon Vine product review program
mostly Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader : The Real Story: Amazon Bans Free Review Samples Which Compete With Its Amazon Vine Program Chris Mills / BGR : Amazon reviews are about to get way better B...
How a government targeted Ahmed Mansoor, an activist in the UAE, with three zero-day exploits meant to infect his iPhone with sophisticated commercial spyware
Saturday, August 27, 2016 Ewan Spence / Forbes : Apple Loop: iPhone 7 Launch On September 9th ‘Confirmed’, Dangerous iOS Flaws, New iPhone 7 Images Paul Szoldra / Business Insider : Inside ‘Pegasus,’ ...
Hundreds of computer systems breached at Oracle, including the customer service portal for its MICROS POS CC payment service; Oracle prompts password resets
Oracle's Micros Payment Systems Hacked Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek : Cybercrime Gang Suspected in Attack on Oracle PoS Division Finextra Research Headlines : Hackers hit Oracle Micros POS unit Duncan...
Birth dates, names, emails, and addresses of 1.1M DC-area customers of health insurer CareFirst potentially accessed in a June 2014 cyberattack
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