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- Sextortion and what to do about it [VIDEO]
- Australians who won’t unlock their phones could face 10 years in jail
- Sacramento admits to tracking welfare recipients’ license plates
- Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is dictating tweets from prison
- Bogus journals being used to publish fake science
- You Are a Target
- LA to Deploy Body Scanners on Buses
- GBTA Forecasts Seven Percent Growth in Global Business Travel Spend
- Google is tracking your location, even when the setting is turned off
- The sextortionists are back, this time with your phone number as “proof”
- Are your Android apps listening to you?
- Your smart air conditioner could contribute to mass power outages
- FBI warns banks that crooks are planning choreographed ATM drainage
- LA Metro System Invests in Passive Screening Devices
- Hackers Steal $13.5 Million from Indian Bank in ATM Scheme