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Increasingly, security professionals are coming together with law enforcement to provide free decryption tools — freeing locked files and eliminating the temptation for victims to pony up.

Increasingly, security professionals are coming together with law enforcement to provide free decryption tools — freeing locked files and eliminating the temptation for victims to pony up.

Advertisements and notifications are a common part of the whole smartphone experience. But according to two new reports, they present troubling privacy issues.

Advertisements and notifications are a common part of the whole smartphone experience. But according to two new reports, they present troubling privacy issues.

Mileage blockers and freezers are cheap plug-in devices that can stop a cars brain from counting the miles as its being driven. Despite this, they remain legal to sell and use in Britain today.

Mileage blockers and freezers are cheap plug-in devices that can stop a cars brain from counting the miles as its being driven. Despite this, they remain legal to sell and use in Britain today.

Inflation, housing affordability, dangerous products, the breakout of artificial intelligence, and of course scams were among 2023's top stories.

Widely disruptive, large-scale hacks are surging. After a lull in 2022, ransomware attacks on high-value targets such as big companies, banks, hospitals

After a lull in 2022, ransomware attacks on high-value targets such as big companies, banks, hospitals or government agencies, have seen a “massive uptick” this year, rising 51% through late November, according to cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike Holdings Inc.

TAIWAN’S financial system undergirds a $760 billion high-tech economy, but its vulnerability to advanced hacks has raised fears of a worst-case scenario: a full-blown cyberattack from China that sends its currency and markets into a tailspin. To bolster its online defenses, government officials and financial institutions in Taipei are consulting…