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12.11.2018: Chip cards are compromised in U.S. due to the magnetic stripe
- U.S. Chip Cards Are Being Compromised in the Millions
07.11.2018: Netherlands' police decrypted IronChat messages
- Police decrypt 258,000 messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app
02.11.2018: New vulnerability found from Intel CPUs
- Intel CPUs impacted by new PortSmash side-channel vulnerability
26.10.2018: BGP hijacking by China Telecom
- China has been 'hijacking the vital internet backbone of western countries'
- China’s Maxim – Leave No Access Point Unexploited: The Hidden Story of China Telecom’s BGP Hijacking
17.10.2018: Windows' vulnerability gives access to admin rights
- Researcher finds simple way of backdooring Windows PCs and nobody notices for ten months
15.10.2018: On the uselessness of DNT
- 'Do Not Track,' the Privacy Tool Used by Millions of People, Doesn't Do Anything
13.10.2018: Smart home or a surveilled home?
- Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest To Hand Over Data 300 Times
08.10.2018: Google Chrome will remove trust from Symantec certificates issued before June 2016
- With Chrome 70, hundreds of popular websites are about to break
08.10.2018: Data leak from Google+
- Google+ shutting down after data leak affecting 500,000 users
02.10.2018: Adobe update fixed 85 vulnerabilities
- Use Windows, macOS? Don't be hacked by PDF, patch these critical Adobe flaws now
01.10.2018: Chrome extensions will become more trustworthy
- Trustworthy Chrome Extensions, by default
01.10.2018: New digital search law in New Zealand
- Travellers refusing digital search now face $5000 Customs fine
28.09.2018: Facebook breach affected 50 million accounts
- Facebook security breach: Up to 50m accounts attacked
- Security Update
27.09.2018: Facebook uses phone number from two-factor authentication for advertising
- You Gave Facebook Your Number For Security. They Used It For Ads.
23.09.2018: Google Chrome forces auto-login
- Why I’m done with Chrome
20.09.2018: Third parties could have access to your Gmail's inbox
- Google admits it lets hundreds of other companies access your Gmail inbox
11.09.2018: Overview of the British Airways hack
- How Hackers Slipped by British Airways' Defenses
- British Airways customer data stolen from its website
10.09.2018: Tesla Model S used weak cryptography for its key fob
- Hackers Can Steal a Tesla Model S in Seconds by Cloning Its Key Fob
22.08.2018: A good reflection on NotPetya
- The Untold Story of NotPetya, the Most Devastating Cyberattack in History
16.08.2018: Australians may have to hand over the phones if new law is accepted
- Australians who won’t unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail
13.08.2018: How to stop Goolge from tracking you
- Google Tracks You Even If Location History's Off. Here's How to Stop It
27.07.2018: How GRU hacked the US elections
- How they did it (and will likely try again): GRU hackers vs. US elections
17.07.2018: US voting machine vendor used remote access software
- Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States
29.06.2018: New weaknessess found in LTE standard
- LTE wireless connections used by billions aren’t as secure as we thought
24.05.2018: First results of China's "Social Credit" system
- China's Terrifying "Social Credit" System Has Already Blocked 11 Million From Taking Flights

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