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By Waqas

Still didn’t receive your Google Adsense payouts? Don’t worry, you are not alone. For the many millions of Google Adsense users, the earnings derived from it is their bread and butter so when there is a delay in AdSense payouts, predictably there is online pandemonium as many seek answers from the tech Giant. That’s what’s happening […]

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Cyberattacks on airports and airlines are often unrelated to passenger safety - but that's no reason to dismiss them, experts say.

It's Germany's first GDPR fine, for an incident that affected millions of accounts.

A mobile malware has accelerated its activity in 2018, launching more than 70k attacks in August through October.

The incidents affected millions, just as Black Friday, Cyber Monday and the holiday shopping season kicked off.

Malware infection fallout sent ambulances away from East Ohio Regional Hospital and Ohio Valley Medical Center over the Thanksgiving weekend.

Customers may be able to access services by refreshing their connections

Customers may be able to access services by refreshing their connections

Sixty-six of percent of phone users said they had suffered data-related harm: 11 percent suffered identity theft, 22 percent account hacking, 14 percent credit cards hacking and 12 percent financial fraud. 

By Waqas

Don’t trust Google Maps for banks’ contact details – At least not for now. Scammers are now increasingly interested in defrauding users through Google Maps that lets users change or correct the listings displayed on the service. Seeing this as an effectively exploitable opportunity, scammers are modifying the contact information of banks on the app’s listings. […]

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