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“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

Enlarge (credit: Western Digital) Western Digital, maker of the popular My Disk external hard drives, is recommending customers unplug My Disk Live storage devices from the Internet until further notice while company engineers investigate unexplained compromises that have completely wiped data from devices around the world. The mass incidents of disk wiping came to light...

Hackers are using unknown user accounts to target Zyxel firewalls and VPNs
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Hackers are using unknown user accounts to target Zyxel firewalls and VPNs

Enlarge (credit: Zyxel) Network device maker Zyxel is warning customers of active and ongoing attacks that are targeting a range of the company’s firewalls and other types of security appliances. In an email, the company said that targeted devices included security appliances that have remote management or SSL VPN enabled, namely in the USG/ZyWALL, USG...

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What Is Facebook?

Facebook keeps dabbling in new things. Is it now an overstuffed mess, or a genius idea factory?

John McAfee Dies in Spanish Prison
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John McAfee Dies in Spanish Prison

Mr. McAfee, who has not been associated with the company that bears his name for more than two decades, was fighting extradition to the United States after his arrest in Spain.

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AV mogul John McAfee found dead by hanging in Spanish prison cell

Enlarge / John McAfee on his yacht off the coast of Cuba in 2019. (credit: Adalberto ROQUE / AFP / Getty) John McAfee—the antivirus tycoon whose eccentric and often illegal antics on yachts and in tropical rain forests came to define him in later years—took his own life in a Spanish prison cell shortly after...