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Domain transfer #FAIL - man gets 20 years for gunpoint domain hijack
The owner of doitforstate.com was shot in the leg before shooting his
assailant in the chest.
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How a Nigerian Prince scam victim got his money back after 10 years
The Nigerian prince never showed up but the victim's $110,000 did,
eventually.
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Researchers claim Chrome bug bounty paid to the wrong people
Yubico has been drawn into a rare public spat over how the discovery
of a security flaw affecting it products was credited.
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Firefox fixes critical buffer overflow
Version 60.0.2 of the resurgent Firefox browser fixes a critical
security flaw in its SVG rendering code.
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Apple code signing flaw could have made Mac malware look legit
For years it was possible to fool some security software into thinking malicious
code had been digitally signed by Apple.
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