Google’s big announcement this Monday that it was creating a new holding company called Alphabet took the business world by surprise, and cybersquatters have moved in to exploit confusion about the Alphabet domain name and website.
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Change this Facebook setting so you can’t be searched for by phone number
A developer says he’s found a way to harvest users’ personal data from Facebook. Facebook is shrugging, given that it’s all public anyway. You might want to check your privacy settings though …
Women posed as fake brides to scam ISIS out of $3000
Even if you pull one over on the world’s most fearsome terrorist army, it’s still illegal.
iTunes and AppStore remote exploit fixed by Apple
The vulnerability posed “a significant risk to buyers, sellers or Apple website managers/developers”.
What’s keeping security experts awake at night?
Enterprises will pour more than $71 billion into infosec this year but are still get clobbered by Sony-esque level breaches. Why? They’re not focusing on the real threats. 
Fed up with losing email to your spam folder? Gmail’s artificial intelligence wants to help
Google is arming bulk email senders with spam smarts so that you get more of the emails you want and spend less time dumpster-diving for missing email.
Cybersquatters giving some US presidential candidates a bad name
Cybersquatters have caused some embarrassment for several of the US presidential contenders. But abuse of domain names can be costly for businesses and dangerous for consumers.
Spearphishing gets personal as woman scammed out of £50k house deposit
Spearphishing isn’t just a threat for businesses. As this case shows, thieves are willing to spend considerable effort prying into the lives and email of ordinary people in the hope of scoring big cash.
Police break up romance scam gang that fleeced women of $1.5 million
York Regional Police in Canada this week announced the arrest of nine men who allegedly targeted women on dating websites, and conned seven victims out of a total of $1.5 million. The romance scammer’s outward demonstrations of love must conceal a dark heart …
49 busted in Europe for Man-in-the-Middle bank attacks
A multination bust nabbed 49 people on suspicion of using Man-in-the-Middle attacks to sniff out and intercept payment requests from email.