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    Russian national, author of NeverQuest banking trojan, pleads guilty
    Russian national, author of NeverQuest banking trojan, pleads guilty
    Date23 Feb 2019
    CategoryNEWS
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

    A Russian national pleaded guilty today in a New York court of creating, running, and infecting users with the NeverQuest banking trojan --also known as Snifula and Vawtrack.

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    Another Facebook privacy scandal, this time involving its mobile analytics SDK
    Another Facebook privacy scandal, this time involving its mobile analytics SDK
    Date23 Feb 2019
    CategoryPrivacy
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

        In an explosive exposé published ...

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    A third of all Chrome extensions request access to user data on any site
    A third of all Chrome extensions request access to user data on any site
    Date22 Feb 2019
    CategoryPrivacy
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

     

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    POS firm says hackers planted malware on customer networks
    POS firm says hackers planted malware on customer networks
    Date20 Feb 2019
    CategoryHacks/Cracks
    Author Posted By Brittany Day

        North Country Business Products (NCBP), a Minnesota-based provider of point-of-sale (POS) products, announced a security breach last week. The ...

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    LandMark White data breach could impact Westpac property service customers
    LandMark White data breach could impact Westpac property service customers
    Date19 Feb 2019
    CategoryNEWS

    Westpac Group has warned customers that those who have conducted a property valuation through its business may have been inadvertently impacted by a separate data breach affecting LandMark White. ...

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    Another Facebook privacy scandal, this time involving its mobile analytics SDK
    Another Facebook privacy scandal, this time involving its mobile analytics SDK
    Date23 Feb 2019
    CategoryPrivacy

        In an explosive exposé published today, ...

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    Russian national, author of NeverQuest banking trojan, pleads guilty
    Russian national, author of NeverQuest banking trojan, pleads guilty
    Date23 Feb 2019
    CategoryNEWS

    A Russian national pleaded guilty today in a New York court of creating, running, and infecting users with the NeverQuest banking trojan --also known as Snifula and Vawtrack. ...

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    LandMark White data breach could impact Westpac property service customers
    LandMark White data breach could impact Westpac property service customers
    Date19 Feb 2019
    CategoryNEWS

    Westpac Group has warned customers that those who have conducted a property valuation through its business may have been inadvertently impacted by a separate data breach affecting LandMark White. ...

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    Another Facebook privacy scandal, this time involving its mobile analytics SDK
    Another Facebook privacy scandal, this time involving its mobile analytics SDK
    Date23 Feb 2019
    CategoryPrivacy

        In an explosive exposé published today, ...

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    Russian national, author of NeverQuest banking trojan, pleads guilty
    Russian national, author of NeverQuest banking trojan, pleads guilty
    Date23 Feb 2019
    CategoryNEWS

    A Russian national pleaded guilty today in a New York court of creating, running, and infecting users with the NeverQuest banking trojan --also known as Snifula and Vawtrack. ...

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