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From Firefox 66 for desktop and Android, due in March, media autoplay of video or audio will be blocked by default.

Chainalysis found that two groups, which it calls Alpha and Beta, are responsible for stealing around $1 billion in funds from exchanges.

One thing the world doesn't need: hackers who can broadcast to billboards of any size, be they PC monitor- or Godzilla-sized.

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FamilyTreeDNA has disclosed that it's opened up DNA profiles to the FBI to help find suspects of violent crime.

Half of the apps used to control a range of Internet of Things devices are insecure in a variety of ways, researchers found.

The only person who knew the password is dead, leaving customers unable to access around $190million in fiat and virtual currency.

Anyone could have accessed the entire database, including a child's location, on Gator watches and other models that share its back end.

Researchers have discovered security holes in 5G, 4G and 3G telephony protocols, which can expose a user's location.

Chrome now checks for misspellings of popular URLs and will display a link to the site that it thinks the user might have wanted to visit.

The FBI revealed that it joined the Joanap botnet and started chewing it up from the inside.

A groundbreaking settlement in New York finds that selling fake likes and followers is illegal.

From the DNS outage that deleted users' Azure data to the Nest security cam hijacker, and everything in between. It's weekly roundup time.

In this week's Naked Security Live video: what to do about microphone-equipped devices in your home?

A pair of bugs in a very widely used Linux system tool called systemd have just been "weaponised" - check you're patched!

How many user credentials have fallen into the hands of criminals during a decade of data breaches? Billions, according to two recent discoveries.

Yet another family unnerved by yet another voice coming from a nursery webcam serves as yet another argument against password reuse.

Users of Microsoft’s Azure system lost database records as part of a mass outage on Tuesday. A combination of DNS problems and automated scripts were to blame, said reports.

It was using the same Apple enterprise back door as Facebook to get its market research done, but it owned up and backed off.

Google and Mozilla are tidying up security features and patching vulnerabilities in Chrome and Firefox for Mac, Windows, and Linux.