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Google Gets Record-Breaking $2.7 Billion Fine for Manipulating Search Results

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Google has just lost its biggest regulatory battle!

Google has been hit with a record-breaking $2.7 billion (€2.42 billion) fine by the European antitrust officials for unfairly manipulating search results since 2008.

After a lengthy seven-year investigation that was launched in 2010 after several rivals complaint, the European Commission on Tuesday imposed this ‘biggest even financial

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Two British Men Arrested For Hacking Microsoft

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British police have arrested two men in the UK conspiring to hack into the computer networks of US tech giant Microsoft with plans to steal customers’ data from the software giant.

The suspects — 22-year-old from Sleaford and a 25-year-old from Bracknell — were arrested by the detectives from the Britain’s South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) Thursday morning (22 June 2017).

The

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Google’s New Tool Lets You Easily Backup & Sync Your Entire PC to the Cloud

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Soon you will be able to auto backup and sync your whole computer on Google Drive.

Yes, you heard that right.

By the end of this month, Google will launch Backup and Sync — a new, simple tool that has been designed to help you backup not only your documents and photos in the cloud but your entire computer as well.
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22 Apple Distributors Arrested for Selling Customers’ Data in $7.4 Million

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Chinese authorities have announced the arrest of around 22 distributors working as Apple distributors as part of a $7 million operation, who stole customers’ personal information from an internal Apple database and illegally sold it to Chinese black market vendors.

According to a report from Chinese media, this underground network reportedly consisted

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Creator of Bitcoin Mining Schemes faces $12 Million for Ponzi Scam

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Every time a new topic trends on the Internet, scammers take advantage of it.

You must have heard of Bitcoin and how in recent days it has made some early investors millionaire overnight.

Yes, the Bitcoin boom is back, and it’s real — a digital currency that has just crossed a new milestone today. The current price of 1 BTC or 1 Bitcoin = US$2,850.

An American con man took advantage of this

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14-Year-Old Japanese Boy Arrested for Creating Ransomware

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Japanese authorities have arrested a 14-year-old boy in Osaka, a prefecture and large port city, for allegedly creating and distributing a ransomware malware.

This is the first such arrest in Japan which involves a Ransomware-related crime.

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Man Jailed 6 Months for Refusing to Give Police his iPhone Passcode

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Remember Ramona Fricosu? A Colorado woman was ordered to unlock her encrypted Toshiba laptop while the FBI was investigating alleged mortgage fraud in 2012, but she declined to decrypt the laptop saying that she did not remember the password.

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Linguistic Analysis Suggests WannaCry Hackers Could be From Southern China

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It’s been almost four weeks since the outcry of WannaCry ransomware, but the hackers behind the self-spread ransomware threat have not been identified yet.

However, two weeks ago researchers at Google, Kaspersky Lab, Intezer and Symantec linked WannaCry to ‘Lazarus Group,’ a state-sponsored hacking group believed to work for the North Korean government.

Now, new research from dark web

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3 Nigerian Scammers Get 235-Years of Total Jail Sentence in U.S.

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You may have heard of hilarious Nigerian scams. My all time favourite is this one:

A Nigerian astronaut has been trapped in space for the past 25 years and needs $3 million to get back to Earth, Can you help?

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Microsoft Unveils Special Version of Windows 10 For Chinese Government

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China is very strict about censorship, which is why the country has become very paranoid when it comes to adopting foreign technologies.

The country banned Microsoft’s Windows operating system on government computers in 2014 amid concerns about securi… Continue reading Microsoft Unveils Special Version of Windows 10 For Chinese Government→