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  Facebook sues Ukrainian browser extension makers for scraping user data (Mar 11)
 

Facebook has filed a suit against two Ukrainian developers for creating Facebook apps and browser extensions that harvested user data and injected ads into users' timelines.
  WordPress shopping sites under attack (Mar 12)
 

WordPress-based shopping sites are under attack from a hacker group abusing a vulnerability in a shopping cart plugin to plant backdoors and take over vulnerable sites.
  Cybercriminals Think Small to Earn Big (Mar 13)
 

There were 12,449 new, authentic breaches and leaks in 2018, an increase of 424% from the year prior. But the average breach size was 216,884 records 4.7 times smaller than in 2017.
  Android Q to get a ton of new privacy features (Mar 16)
 

Google's upcoming Android version, currently referred to only as Android Q, will arrive later this summer with a trove of privacy enhancements.
  Vulnerability in Swiss e-voting system could have led to vote alterations (Mar 13)
 

Two separate teams of security researchers and academics from universities in Australia and Switzerland have revealed today vulnerabilities in the e-voting system that the Swiss voting commission plans to roll out for future elections.
  US Senators say it shouldn’t be a secret when they’ve been hacked (Mar 14)
 

Take a look at the security headlines, and you'll see report after report of businesses and large organisations being hacked.
  ONS Evolution: Cloud, Edge, and Technical Content for Carriers and Enterprise (Mar 17)
 

The first Open Networking Summit was held in October 2011 at Stanford University and described as "a premier event about OpenFlow and Software-Defined Networking (SDN)". Here we are seven and half years later and I'm constantly amazed at both how far we've come since then, and at how quickly a traditionally slow-moving industry like telecommunications is embracing change and innovation powered by open source.
  Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group (Mar 18)
 

As the Texas Democrat enters the race for president, members of a group famous for "hactivism" come forward for the first time to claim him as one of their own.
  Round 4: Hacker returns and puts 26Mil user records for sale on the Dark Web (Mar 18)
 

A hacker who has previously put up for sale over 840 million user records in the past month, has returned with a fourth round of hacked data that he's selling on a dark web marketplace.