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Knowing how to hack will be vital in a cybercrime-filled future

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Knowing how to hack will be vital in a cybercrime-filled future

To improve cybersecurity we need to understand how hackers really think, as well as how they code, says cyber-lawyer Scott Shapiro. That's why he's teaching everyone how to hack

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A scam email on a smartphone

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ChatGPT can be made to write scam emails and it slashes their cost

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2A7XK59 Lisbon, Portugal. 4th Nov, 2019. Edward Snowden, former intelligence officer who served the CIA, NSA, and DIA for nearly a decade as a subject matter expert on technology and cyber security, speaks from Russia to the audience for an interview by James Ball, during the annual Web Summit technology conference in Lisbon. Credit: Henrique Casinhas/SOPA Images/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Live News

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Pegasus review: Terrifying exposé of the world's most powerful spyware

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A postprocessed version of a photo that has been made blurry by a signal injection attack

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Spoofing cyberattack can make cameras see things that aren’t there

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Ukraine's army of hackers failed to thwart Russia and quickly gave up

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Artist Ciaran Gallagher painting a mural in Belfast depicting the candidates vying to be the next UK prime minister

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Tory leadership contest's online vote is still vulnerable to hackers

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MEDYKA, POLAND - MARCH 09: Iryna Holoshchapova, a Ukrainian refugee who fled the embattled city of Mykolaiv, shows a video on her smartphone of a friend's apartment block in Mykolaiv on fire following a Russian attack as she, her son Tibor and mother Halina rest in a heated tent at the Medyka border crossing on March 09, 2022 in Medyka, Poland. Yulia said her friend was not in the building when it was struck. Over one million people have arrived in Poland from Ukraine since the Russian invasion of February 24, and while many are now living with relatives who live and work in Poland, others are journeying onward to other countries in Europe. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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The internet is a key battleground for truth about the Ukraine war

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Flag of Ukraine on a computer binary codes falling from the top and fading away.

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Will Russia’s invasion of Ukraine trigger a massive cyberwar?

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GPS cyberattack falsely placed UK warship near Russian naval base

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GPS cyberattack falsely placed UK warship near Russian naval base

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What is phishing?

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Phishing

Phishing is the most common cyberattack today and is getting increasingly sophisticated as public awareness and technical attempts to stop it grow

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Voice assistant recordings could reveal what someone nearby is typing

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Exclusive: UN cybercrime chief warns against US and Iran cyberattacks

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This piece of music could stop your Amazon Alexa from working

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Hackers could use Wi-Fi to install ransomware on DSLR cameras

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