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It’s not just private companies’ websites falling victim to cryptocurrency mining hijacks. Security consultant Scott Helme and the Register have discovered that intruders compromised over 4,200 sites with Coinhive’s notorious Monero miner, many of them government websites from around the world. This includes the US court info system, the UK’s National Health Service and Australian […]
Sorbis/Shutterstock Eligible taxpayers can file their tax return online for free using many different services. Tax season officially began January 29, with a final deadline of April 17 this year. The IRS recommends e-filing your taxes and requesting your refund via direct deposit. Business Insider decided to try the free file version of several online […]
You might not to log in to your favorite websites one at a time in the near future. The 9to5Mac team has found code in the iOS 11.3 beta hinting at a single sign-on option for the web based on your iCloud account. It’s not certain just how it would work, but you would be […]
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Enlarge / A screenshot showing a keylogger extracting user names and passwords. It’s currently infecting more than 2,000 WordPress websites. (credit: Sucuri) More than 2,000 websites running the open-source WordPress content management system are infected with malware, researchers warned late last week. The malware in question logs passwords and just about anything else an administrator […]
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Enlarge / AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on November 20, 2017 in New York City. (credit: Getty Images | Amir Levy ) AT&T is lobbying Congress for a net neutrality law that isn’t nearly as strict as the rules just recently repealed by the Federal Communications Commission. But the most notable aspect of AT&T’s rather vague […]
It’s no secret that China is fond of censorship. Now, however, the country has divulged numbers that give a sense of that crackdown’s scale. A report from the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress has revealed that China has either shut down or revoked licenses for more than 13,000 websites since the start of […]
Published time: 16 Dec, 2017 02:17 The top French constitutional authority has for the second time this year scrapped proposed legislation to criminalize visiting terrorist websites, ruling in favor of civil liberties over increased security from terrorism. The bill proposes to sentence anyone who visits jihadist websites “without any legitimate reason” to “two years of […]
Researchers have discovered a new technique that lets hackers and unscrupulous websites perform in-browser, drive-by cryptomining even after a user has closed the window for the offending site. Over the past month or two, drive-by cryptomining has emerged as a way to generate the cryptocurrency known as Monero. Hackers harness the electricity and CPU resources […]
