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Written by: ZDNet

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Published: 15 October 2020

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A ransomware gang going by the of Egregor^[1] has leaked data it claims to have obtained from the internal networks of two of today's largest gaming companies — Ubisoft and Crytek.

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Data allegedly taken

Read more: Ubisoft, Crytek data posted on ransomware gang's site

Written by: ZDNet

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Published: 15 October 2020

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The US Department of Justice has unsealed today charges against 14 members of an international money laundering group known as QQAAZZ.

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US authorities said the group has been

Read more: US charges QQAAZZ group for laundering money for malware gangs

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 15 October 2020

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Alphabet's X lab for emerging technologies "moonshot factory", has unveiled yet another initiative that might this time come to improve the future content of our plates.

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The research company - formerly Google X - has developed Project

Read more: Alphabet X has a crop-watching robot that rolls around fields

Written by: the Moz Blog

Category: News

Published: 15 October 2020

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In a study of 2.1M searches and 766K videos, YouTube accounted for 94% of all video carousel results on page one of Google, leaving little room for competition.

Even the most casual video aficionado knows YouTube (acquired...

Read more: YouTube Dominates Google Video in 2020

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 15 October 2020

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You couldn't be blamed if you watched the iPhone 12^[1] release commercial -- excuse me, media event -- and thought you'd soon be getting Gigabit speeds from 5G.  No, you're not. Most of...

Read more: 5G is no reason to buy the iPhone 12 - or any phone

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 15 October 2020

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What is a DDoS attack?

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A distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) sees an attacker flooding the network or servers of the victim with a wave of internet traffic so big that their infrastructure is overwhelmed by the

Read more: What is a DDoS attack? Everything you need to know about Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks and...

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 15 October 2020

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Security researchers have demonstrated how hijacked billboards could be used to confuse self-driving cars -- forcing them to slam on the brakes, or worse. 

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Autonomous driving systems have come on leaps and bounds in recent years, but

Read more: Self-driving cars can be forced to brake by hijacked billboards

Written by: ZDNet

Category: News

Published: 15 October 2020

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Millions of people have been ditching Facebook and switching to Mountain View, CA-based social media network MeWe^[1], touted to be the ad-free future of social networking.

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Advised by Sir Tim Berners-Lee^[2]

Read more: Have issues with Facebook collecting your data? Privacy-first alternative MeWe surges to 9M users

Written by: ZDNet

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Published: 15 October 2020

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Read more: South Korea makes 6GHz band available for Wi-Fi