True-life digital pirates have reportedly hijacked the upcoming film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and plan to leak it online in increments, unless Disney pays an exorbitant ransom demand to rescue its movie.
The account details of millions of subscribers to the education platform Edmodo have not only been stolen but witnessed to be for sale on the dark web.
Citizens attempting to login to their accounts on the U.S. Social Security Administration website will now be required to offer further proof of their identity, but the enhanced security implementation is receiving mixed reviews.
Yahoo's three-year-old bug bounty program has paid out more than $2 million to bug hunters with the most recent important find taking place in April when a vulnerability in Flickr was revealed.
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