PayAsUGym hack exposes members' card details

itness website PayAsUGym has admitted that members' financial details were stolen when one of its servers was hacked on Thursday. The discovery was made by security experts who found partial card numbers and home addresses on a public website. The company acknowledged there had been "confusion" over earlier claims that it did not hold any card details. Security expert Troy Hunt advised customers to cancel their credit card if they think details have been stolen. PayAsUGym, which...

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Facebook accused over WhatsApp takeover

Facebook has been accused by the European Commission of misleading it during its investigation of the company's 2014 takeover of WhatsApp. The Commission says Facebook misled it when the company said it was impossible to match users' Facebook and WhatsApp accounts. But in August, WhatsApp said it would do just that, by linking users' phone numbers with their Facebook identities. Facebook said it had nothing to hide and had acted in good faith. The Commission believes the ability to link...

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Security risk on in-flight entertainment systems, say researchers

Air passengers could be subjected to a series of "shocking" incidents if security flaws in cabin entertainment systems were abused, say researchers. Security experts found flaws that let them take over cabin entertainment systems. The flaws could allow attackers to switch off lights, change altitude readings, display bogus maps and broadcast messages via the PA. Personal information and credit card data were also accessible via the bugs. Accidental discovery The weaknesses were found...

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Google responds on skewed Holocaust search results

Google has said it is "thinking deeply" about ways to improve search, after criticism over how some results - including ones discussing the Holocaust - were ranked. Searching for "did the Holocaust happen?" returned a top result that claimed it did not, as Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr reported. Now, the ranking has changed for US users. The page - from white supremacist site Stormfront - remains top in the UK. "This is a really challenging problem, and something we're...

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