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Russian hacker, described as ‘brilliant’ by judge, gets seven years in a US clink for raiding LinkedIn, Dropbox

The Register A Russian scumbag found guilty of hacking into LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring – and stealing data on over 200 million users – has been sent down for more than seven years. Yevgeniy Nikulin …

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Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors

The Register Three individuals were charged on Friday for allegedly hijacking a string of high-profile Twitter accounts after hoodwinking the social network’s staff. It is claimed a social-engineering-driven phishing campaign against Twitter employees led to …

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MI6 tried to intervene in independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers – but they said sorry, so it’s OK

The Register The UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, aka MI6, has been accused of trying to tamper with a court that is supposed to oversee and regulate it after an extraordinary tale emerged yesterday. Two spies …

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Living on a prayer? Netgear not quite halfway there with patches for 28 out of 79 vulnerable router models

The Register Netgear has now patched 28 out of 79 vulnerable router models, six months after infosec researchers first noticed security problems potentially allowing an attacker to remotely execute code as root. The latest hotfixes …

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UK police’s face recognition tech breaks human rights laws. Outlaw it, civil rights group urges Court of Appeal

The Register Automated facial recognition (AFR) use by British police forces breaches human rights laws, according to lawyers for a man whose face was scanned by the creepycam tech in Cardiff. Put simply, connected to …

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At Mozilla VPN stands for Vague Product News: Foundation reveals security product will launch eventually, with temporary pricing, in unspecified places

The Register The Mozilla Foundation has announced it will soon launch its VPN. The organisation’s announcement is rather vague, as it says the product will debut “in the next few weeks” and protect up to …

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Fake crypto-wallet extensions appear in Chrome Web Store once again, siphoning off victims’ passwords

The Register Three weeks after Google removed 49 Chrome extensions from its browser’s software store for stealing crypto-wallet credentials, 11 more password-swiping add-ons have been spotted – and some are still available to download. The …

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