FBI Offering $4.3 Million For Help Finding Cyber Most-Wanted

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The FBI’s updated Cyber Most Wanted List now includes 15 men (no women). The Bureau is still not offering monetary rewards for information leading to the arrests of five members of the People’s Republic of China’s People’s Liberation Army who remain on the list. However, they are offering bounties for most others, which add up to over $4.3 million.

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Banks get attacked four times more than other industries

Modern-day criminals are still following Willie Sutton’s example of going after banks "because there’s where the money is." According to a new report from Websense Security Labs, the average number of attacks against financial services institutions is four times higher than that of companies in other industries.

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Kenyan slums dispense clean drinking water through ATMs

In many parts of Kenya’s capital of Nairobi, clean water is difficult to come by. That often means taking your chances with dysentery from an impure source, or pay through the nose from a "water vendor." But the BBC reports that thanks to a partnersh…

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Test Your Hearing with These Mobile Apps

Test Your Hearing with These Mobile Apps

Worried your hearing might be getting bad but don’t want to see a doctor about it just yet? You can give yourself a preliminary test using mobile apps to see where you stand.

BBC Future recommends a couple of different apps, Hearing Test for Android and UHear for iPhone. You can also test your hearing age using Mimi Test for iPhone (this video also works). Both will give you an idea of how your hearing is doing so you can make the choice of whether or not it’s worth seeing a doctor.

Are you damaging your hearing without realising it? | BBC Future

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Investigators connect massive federal hack to China

More information about the hack that leaked info on millions of US government employees — including extremely detailed data from background checks — is coming out now. While a computer security firm called CloudStrike said it came from a Chinese gr…

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