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  Cybercriminals Found a Scary New Way of Making Hacked Companies Pay Ransom

  VICE - David Gilbert

  Ransomware is spreading like wildfire in the U.S., and one gang is threatening infected companies with mass data exposure if they don't pay up. As ransomware continues to spread like wildfire through the U.S., one cybercrime gang has found a new way to convince their victims to cough up the …

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  LifeLabs pays ransom after cyberattack exposes information of 15 million customers in B.C. and Ontario

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  The Canadian laboratory testing company LifeLabs says it made a payment to criminals to retrieve the sensitive information of millions of customers …

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  5 Ways to Help Lock Down Your Data After PayPal's Data Breach

  CNET - Clifford Colby

  PayPal is the latest company to investigate a digital breach. You can't prevent these incidents, but here are ways to protect yourself online.

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  Why every website wants you to accept its cookies

  Recode - Emily Stewart

  Cookies alerts are supposed to improve our privacy online. But are they? If you’ve visited a new website on your phone or computer over the past 18 months or so, you’ve probably seen it: a notification informing you that the page is using cookies to track you and asking you to agree to let it …

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  The 6 most popular cyberattack methods hackers use to attack your business

  TechRepublic - Alison DeNisco Rayome

  Here's how your company can prevent common cybersecurity incidents including malware and social engineering, according to a Positive Technologies …

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  The iPhone's USB Restricted Mode is painfully easy to hack

  Mashable - Stan Schroeder

  USB Restricted Mode, a new iOS feature that protects unauthorized access of the data on your iOS device, has a glaring omission that would make it quite easy for someone to beat in many scenarios. The feature, introduced in iOS 11.4.1 and iOS 12 beta 2, is supposed to make the data on your iPhone …