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In a Medium article titled How to Make $80,000 Per Month On the Apple App Store, Johnny Lin uncovers a scamming trend in which apps advertising fake services are making thousands of dollars a month from in-app purchases. The practice…

Even as Bitcoin hits its all-time high, people’s interest in other cryptocurrencies hasn’t waned, especially Ethereum. But what makes Ethereum popular among some? From an article on VentureBeat: Despite its recent appreciation in value, as a technology, Bitcoin has stagnated…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: There have been some well-publicized incidents in which student groups or other protesters have interfered with scheduled appearances by right-wing speakers at U.S. universities. In response, a number of states have…

In what is believed to be “the first time the death penalty had been awarded in a case related to social media,” a 30-year-old man in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for blasphemy in comments made on Facebook. Gizmodo…

An anonymous reader writes: “A team of researchers from French company P1 Security has detailed a long list of issues with the 4G VoLTE telephony, a protocol that has become quite popular all over the world in recent years and…

Kaspersky Lab said it has seen some of the first exploits targeting a patched Samba vulnerability, and those are being used to mine Monero cryptocurrency.

Researchers say sensitive data can be extracted from air-gapped networks via a wireless router’s blinking LEDs.