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<p>Wikileaks founder Julian Assange speaks from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London, England in 2016. On Thursday, WikiLeaks revealed a second cache of documents allegedly revealing CIA hacking tools aimed at Apple products</p>

WikiLeaks: CIA tools could infiltrate MacBooks, iPhones

A new series of leaked documents appears to show tools from as far back as 2009 that could infect Apple products. They required physical access.

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Software bug makes Nest Cams vulnerable to hacks

An IoT hacker has uncovered a bug that temporarily disables Nest and Dropcam cameras over Bluetooth.

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Most Android users running outdated security patches: report

A cybersecurity company found that 71 percent of Android users on major US carriers are easy targets for hackers.

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"Has my Facebook been hacked?" How to find out (and fix it)

Here's how to see if someone's been poking around where they don't belong.

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Chinese trojan detected spreading through fake base stations

The interestingly named "Swearing Trojan" appears to be using fake mobile base stations in China to send phishing SMS messages to fool victims.

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<p>Police officers push back demonstrators as they protest against US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2017.</p>

Prosecutors hack phones seized in inauguration protests

Court papers say data is being extracted from 100 locked phones confiscated during arrests at anti-Trump protests.

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<p>Hackers are taking aim at iCloud accounts.</p>

Apple reportedly target of shakedown over iCloud accounts

Hackers demand $75,000 in bitcoin by April 7 in exchange for not resetting account credentials, Motherboard reports.

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Google says it's stopped a ton of 'dangerous' Android apps

The company says it's gotten better at keeping potentially harmful apps from reaching Android's 1.4 billion users.

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LastPass fixes just-discovered vulnerabilities

Security bugs in the password manager that could have led to passwords being stolen were fixed in less than day, according to the researcher who found them.

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<p>Google wants to roll out free tools to protect elections.</p>

Google, Jigsaw seek to stop election hacks

While the US government investigates how Russians hacked the 2016 presidential race, Alphabet's Jigsaw and Google want to make sure it won't happen again.

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50 indoor security cameras for a safer smart home

You can't always keep an eye on things at home, so these smart security cameras promise to do the heavy lifting on your behalf.

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<p>FBI Director James Comey testifies in front of the House Intelligence Committee on Monday regarding Russian hacking during the 2016 election.</p>

FBI: We're probing ties between Trump team, Russian hackers

The agency's director, James Comey, confirms the FBI is looking into any possible ties between the president's campaign and the Russian government.

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