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1. Cloudflare reports that it has blocked one of the largest HTTPS DDoS attacks ever seen

   By Karlston, April 28, 2022   

   • cloudflare
   • ddos
   • 0 comments
   • 1,820 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 28, 2022

2. Russian Hacker Arrested in India for Reportedly Helping Students Cheat in JEE-Main Exam

   By aum, October 5, 2022
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   • 1,049 views
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   • Added by aum
   • October 5, 2022

3. Google Play apps with >20M downloads depleted batteries and network bandwidth

   By Karlston, October 21, 2022   

   • google play
   • 0 comments
   • 1,109 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • October 21, 2022

4. White House invites dozens of nations for ransomware summit

   By aum, October 31, 2022
   • 0 comments
   • 996 views
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   • Added by aum
   • October 31, 2022

5. Hacker leaks alleged Activision employee data on cybercrime forum

   By alf9872000, February 27, 2023
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   • 1,051 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • February 27, 2023

6. One of YouTube's most irksome ad formats is finally going away April 6

   By Karlston, March 7, 2023   

   • youtube
   • ads
   • 1 comment
   • 1,270 views
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   • Comment by Karlston
   • March 7, 2023

7. CrowdStrike details Spyboy Terminator said to kill Microsoft Defender, Avast, and more EDRs

   By alf9872000, June 1, 2023
   • 0 comments
   • 1,406 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • June 1, 2023

8. How to stop Microsoft Edge from importing Google Chrome browsing data at launch

   By Karlston, October 13, 2023   

   • microsoft edge
   • 0 comments
   • 1,340 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • October 13, 2023

9. Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

   By Karlston, June 27, 2024
   • 0 comments
   • 1,416 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • June 27, 2024

10. Free, France’s second largest ISP, confirms data breach after leak

    By Karlston, October 29, 2024   

    • free
    • france
    • (and 1 more)

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      • free
      • france
      • data breach
    • 0 comments
    • 1,465 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 29, 2024

11. Google admits to anti-competitive conduct in Australia

    By Karlston, August 18, 2025   

    • google
    • anti-competitive
    • (and 1 more)

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      • google
      • anti-competitive
      • australia
    • 0 comments
    • 429 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 18, 2025

12. Meta must stop forcing algorithmic feeds on users, court rules

    By Karlston, October 2, 2025   

    • meta
    • 0 comments
    • 402 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 2, 2025

13. Researchers report rare intrusion by suspected Chinese hackers into Russian tech firm

    By aum, October 15, 2025
    • 0 comments
    • 371 views
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    • Added by aum
    • October 15, 2025

14. Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen.

    By Karlston, March 3   

    • oops
    • 0 comments
    • 320 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 3

15. New Mēris botnet breaks DDoS record with 21.8 million RPS attack

    By Karlston, September 9, 2021   

    • yandex
    • ddos
    • (and 1 more)

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      • yandex
      • ddos
      • botnet
    • 0 comments
    • 1,942 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 9, 2021

16. LastPass says no passwords were compromised following breach scare

    By Karlston, December 29, 2021   

    • lastpass
    • 2 comments
    • 3,800 views
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    • Comment by DKT27
    • January 1, 2022

17. Microsoft testing integrated VPN ‘Secure Network' in Edge powered by Cloudflare

    By Karlston, April 28, 2022   

    • microsoft edge
    • vpn
    • (and 1 more)

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      • microsoft edge
      • vpn
      • cloudflare
    • 0 comments
    • 1,525 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • April 28, 2022

18. QBot phishing abuses Windows Control Panel EXE to infect devices

    By alf9872000, November 17, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 1,065 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • November 17, 2022

19. Security researcher bags $107K bounty for hacking Google Home to spy on you

    By Karlston, December 31, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 1,007 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • December 31, 2022

20. The Week in Ransomware - June 23rd 2023 - The Reddit Files

    By Karlston, June 24, 2023   

    • ransomware
    • 0 comments
    • 1,613 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • June 24, 2023

21. YouTube showing ads with uBlock Origin enabled? Here is a fix!

    By Karlston, September 3, 2023   

    • youtube
    • ads
    • 10 comments
    • 6,464 views
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    • Comment by jayballs
    • October 1, 2023

22. LastPass to enforce minimum Master Password length of 12 characters

    By Karlston, September 22, 2023   

    • lastpass
    • master password
    • 0 comments
    • 1,452 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • September 22, 2023

23. Major Sites Are Saying No to Apple’s AI Scraping

    By Karlston, August 29, 2024   

    • apple
    • ai
    • 0 comments
    • 1,323 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 29, 2024

24. Google warns uBlock Origin and other extensions may be disabled soon

    By Karlston, October 14, 2024   

    • google chrome
    • adblockers
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • google chrome
      • adblockers
      • banned
    • 13 comments
    • 2,367 views
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    • Comment by vide
    • October 17, 2024

25. New tool bypasses Google Chrome’s new cookie encryption system

    By Karlston, October 29, 2024   

    • google chrome
    • 0 comments
    • 1,219 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • October 29, 2024