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Showtime
Showtime’s Web sites roped visitors’ CPU into mining cryptocurrency

Here’s the latest good reason for users to block JavaScript: if you don’t, your computer’s CPU power could be used to mine cryptocurrency without your …

money
Avast to acquire AVG for $1.3 billion

Avast Software and AVG Technologies have entered into a purchase agreement in which Avast will offer to purchase all of the outstanding ordinary shares of AVG for $25.00 per …

Fire
Difficult to block JavaScript-based ransomware can hit all operating systems

A new type of ransomware that still goes undetected by the great majority of AV solutions has been spotted and analyzed by Emsisoft researchers (via Google Translate). …

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