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Recently in the news, a staff writer for Wired suffered a massive hack attack when criminals got ahold of his Apple ID information. Through that one access point, they were able to wreak havoc on his accounts, change his passwords, take over his Twitter – even remote wipe his devices, …

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In one of the year’s weirdest attacks, a Gamergate-aligned troll has hacked the crowdfunding website Patreon, exposing 15 gigabytes of users’ personal information. People who don’t know much about the internet might need some help unpacking that sentence, but rest assured: this story is the perfect …

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The European Union is beginning to wind up its massive piece of legislation that will affect every country immediately after its implantation. Formerly known as the General Data Protection Directive, the new regulation will take immediate effect once it’s completed, which will likely be sometime in …

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