The CryptoWall variant of crypto-ransomware cost US businesses and consumers at least $18 million between April 2014 and June 2015. The total damages could be much higher.
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Blackshades RAT co-author sentenced to 57 months in prison
Alex Yucel, co-creator of the Blackshades Remote Access Trojan (RAT), has been sentenced for selling and distributing the malware since 2010.
Hundreds of Australian nude images posted without women’s consent
“Come at me Aussie police,” the uploader jeered, threatening to repost the images to the Deep Web.
Now you can avoid email sender’s remorse with Gmail’s ‘Undo Send’ feature
Wrong recipients and forgotten attachments could soon become a thing of the past with Gmail’s new ‘Undo Send’ feature.
NOT OK, Google! Privacy advocates take on the Chromium team and win…
Privacy advocates were unsurprisingly unimpressed that Google’s Chromium project silently downloaded a proprietary add-on… …that listened to your microphone.
Uber wants even more customer data – EPIC asks FTC to slam on the brakes
Uber wants location data when the app’s running in the background (even when it’s off on iOS), location data from IP address, and users’ contact lists. 
US Navy pays millions to cling to Windows XP
More than a year after Microsoft pulled the plug on free support for the end-of-life’d OS, hundreds of millions of users are still clinging to the drifting ship.
Pita bread helps researchers steal encryption keys
Four Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a tiny, low-cost device that can steal encryption keys via radio waves.
Facebook aiming for faceless facial recognition
Worried that Facebook can’t get your friends right in your selfies when their hair blows around? There might just be an app for that…
Amazon uses artificial intelligence to weed out fake reviews
Given enough time for the new AI system to learn what a helpful review is, fake reviews may sink to the bottom of the reviews ocean.