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Buggy software in popular connected storage drives can let hackers read private data
Security researchers have found flaws in four popular connected storage drives that they say could let hackers access a user’s…
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MindBody-owned FitMetrix exposed millions of user records — thanks to servers without passwords
FitMetrix, a fitness technology and performance tracking company owned by gym booking giant Mindbody, has exposed millions of user records…
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A flood of fake installers will really update Flash for you – but also install cryptocurrency mining malware
If you think that Flash, the once-popular web plugin, couldn’t die fast enough, even those annoying fake Flash installers riddled…
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Tim Berners-Lee is on a mission to decentralize the web
“I’ve always believed the web is for everyone,” wrote Tim Berners-Lee, the well-known (and knighted) creator of the World Wide…
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Garmin-owned navigation unit exposed thousands of boat owners’ data
Navionics, an electronic navigational chart maker owned by tech giant Garmin, has secured an exposed database that contained hundreds of…
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D-Wave offers the first public access to a quantum computer
Outside the crop of construction cranes that now dot Vancouver’s bright, downtown greenways, in a suburban business park that reminds…
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Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime
When Amazon rolled out its membership-based two-day shipping service in 2005, e-commerce and customer expectations around fulfillment speed changed forever.…
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GitHub gets a new and improved Jira Software Cloud integration
Atlassian’s Jira has become a standard for managing large software projects in many companies. Many of those same companies also…
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Google’s cyber unit Jigsaw introduces Intra, a new security app dedicated to busting censorship
Jigsaw, the division owned by Google parent Alphabet, has revealed Intra, a new app aimed at protecting users from state-sponsored…
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