A 22-year-old man from New Jersey has been charged with stalking one teenage girl and soliciting sexually explicit photos from another via Facebook.![]()
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Legendary NYC steakhouse sues Yelp to unmask spitting-waiter reviewer
A man turned down for a job at the eatery shares a name with the reviewer, who claimed to work at Sparks Steak House, where management purportedly encourages spittle garnishes. He says it wasn’t him; it was an imposter! Sparks wants Yelp to reveal the true identity to get to the bottom of the bogus claim. ![]()
Liberty Reserve CTO pleads guilty to involvement in massive money laundering
Mark Marmilev, CTO of former digital currency brokerage Liberty Reserve, has pleaded guilty to playing a major role in the operation of the business which became a favourite for cybercrooks and money launderers.![]()
Facebook wants to know why you hate specific adverts
Facebook’s not happy to just let us hide ads anymore; now it wants to know why we hid a given ad so it can purge newsfeeds of super-cruddy ads. ![]()
Firefox sneaks out an “inbetweener” update, with security improvements rather than fixes
Usually, if everything goes according to plan, Firefox updates appear every six weeks. But if needs must, Mozilla delivers in-between updates, too, and that’s what has happened here, bumping Firefox from version 32.0 to 32.0.1.![]()
Why would we let you say “No” to something that’s free? 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s our latest 60 Second Security video for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy…![]()
Apple’s free gift: Did U get the album 2?
Apple’s gift of a free U2 album for iTunes users? Turns out it’s “free” as in “compulsory”…![]()
Target tops the list of most epic privacy fails
Our readers ranked Target’s data breach ahead of Adobe, Snapchat, Google Glass, and Talking Angela for the biggest privacy failure of the past year.![]()
Serial hacker pleads guilty to bank bitcoin blackmail
A 22-year-old with a lengthy history of convictions pleaded guilty last week to charges of blackmail and fraud, after threatening to reveal details of thousands of phished bank accounts if the bank involved refused to pay up.![]()
US government “threatened” Yahoo with daily $250,000 fines over user data
In the post-Snowden era many web firms came in for criticism over their apparent willingness to bend over for the NSA as the agency went on a massive data grab. Now, however, Yahoo has revealed how much it would have cost the company to disregard government data requests – a cool quarter of a million dollars per day.![]()
