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Mystery malware steals 26M passwords from 3M PCs. Are you affected?
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Mystery malware steals 26M passwords from 3M PCs. Are you affected?

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Researchers have discovered yet another massive trove of sensitive data, a dizzying 1.2TB database containing login credentials, browser cookies, autofill data, and payment information extracted by malware that has yet to be identified. In all, researchers from NordLocker said on Wednesday, the database contained 26 million login credentials, 1.1 million unique...

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Hackers can mess with HTTPS connections by sending data to your email server

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) When you visit an HTTPS-protected website, your browser doesn’t exchange data with the webserver until it has ensured that the site’s digital certificate is valid. That prevents hackers with the ability to monitor or modify data passing between you and the site from obtaining authentication cookies or executing malicious code on...