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Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history
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Verizon overrides users’ opt-out preferences in push to collect browsing history

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Scott Olson) Verizon is automatically enrolling customers in a new version of a program that scans mobile users’ browser histories—even when those same users previously opted out of the program when it had a different name. The carrier announced changes to its “Verizon Selects” program along with a new name...

Microsoft seizes domains used by “highly sophisticated” hackers in China
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Microsoft seizes domains used by “highly sophisticated” hackers in China

Enlarge / Computer chip with Chinese flag, 3d conceptual illustration. (credit: Steve McDowell / Agefotostock) Microsoft said it has seized control of servers that a China-based hacking group was using to compromise targets that align with that country’s geopolitical interests. The hacking group, which Microsoft has dubbed Nickel, has been in Microsoft’s sights since at...

SolarWinds hackers have a whole bag of new tricks for mass compromise attacks
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SolarWinds hackers have a whole bag of new tricks for mass compromise attacks

Enlarge Almost exactly a year ago, security researchers uncovered one of the worst data breaches in modern history, if not ever: a Kremlin-backed hacking campaign that compromised the servers of network management provider SolarWinds and, from there, the networks of 100 of its highest-profile customers, including nine US federal agencies. Nobelium—the name Microsoft gave to...