Being at your beck and call is central to the “personality” of your digital friend, but there are situations when the device could use some time off

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Can someone take control of your WhatsApp account by just knowing your phone number? We ran a small test to find out.

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Sextortion-meets-coronavirus scams – The financial loss from coronavirus-themed fraud in America – Is the time ripe for one global set of data privacy rules?

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Scams demanding bitcoin on pain of infecting you with the coronavirus gain their fair share of shine among schemes with a thin veneer of plausibility

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The tool, which comes after a similar effort by Google, looks at how people’s traveling behavior has changed since the start of the pandemic

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Even accounts belonging to banks and educational institutions were found on lists plastered across various hacker forums

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The median loss to fraudulent schemes that exploit the global health crisis is almost US$600

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While in France, a citizen of Brazil who resides in California books a bungee jump in New Zealand. Is it a leap of faith into the unknown, for both the operator and the thrill-seeker?

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While in France, a citizen of Brazil who resides in California books a bungee jump in New Zealand. Is it a leap of faith into the unknown, for both the operator and the thrill-seeker?

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Making sense of passwords in Zoom – What to do if your phone goes missing – Email provider hacked

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