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‘Dirty little secret’ extortion email threatens to give your family coronavirus

…And it’s got your password as “proof”.

The EFF got in touch with the institutions that have the dataset. Some deleted it, while one refused and others didn’t bother to respond.

Cryptojacking may not be entirely gone following the shutdown of notorious cryptomining service Coinhive – but it’s drastically diminished.

This week the company made amends, issuing fixes for an unusually high CVE-level 41 vulnerabilities, 21 of which are rated critical.

Facebook is denying that a recent content moderation glitch has anything to do with workforce issues, but blames automatic systems.