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How to check if your email was in a data breach
Have I Been Pwned listed more than 17.8 billion breached addresses as of 17 October 2026. How to search yours, get alerts and act on a hit.
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Quin Halberg
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Quin Halberg writes the Computing and How-to desks, with 30 stories covering chips, operating systems and the hardware people buy. Computing pieces run from AMD's EPYC Venice prices to Windows 11 26H2 and Rust 1.99. The how-to guides walk readers through jobs like moving books to Amazon's new Kindle, or checking every clock in the house when daylight saving starts.
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How to lock down your home Wi-Fi router
A Chinese botnet hijacked hundreds of thousands of home devices. Here's how to change your router password, update it and switch off risky extras.
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How to screen scam calls on iPhone and Pixel
Your phone can now ask unknown callers who they are before it rings. Here's how to set up call screening on iPhone and Pixel, and what Do Not Call does.
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Poole Group probes LockBit listing and data threat
Sunshine Coast firm Poole Group told Cyber Daily it's investigating a cyber incident after LockBit claimed an attack and set a 25 October countdown.
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Napoleon Perdis says 340,000 records hit in supplier hack
Napoleon Perdis told customers almost 340,000 records were exposed when supplier Retail Express was hacked, the ABC reports.
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How to move your passwords into Apple's Passwords app
Apple's free Passwords app can import logins from other managers and flag weak or leaked ones. Here's how to switch, clean up and stay synced.
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Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday fixes exploited zero-day
Microsoft's October update covers about 1,413 flaws, including a Windows Shell Mark of the Web bypass already under attack.
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How to lock down your Google account and Gmail
Your Gmail is the key to every password reset. Here's how to run Security Checkup, add a passkey, use stronger 2-Step Verification and keep backup codes.
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Hunter Neurology probes n0n ransomware patient-data claim
Hunter Neurology is investigating a claim by the n0n ransomware group, reported on 15 October, that it stole tens of thousands of patient files.
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North Korea's fake job interviews infect 30,000 devices
A joint advisory says North Korea's WaterPlum group used fake job interviews to infect 30,000 devices and drain more than 7,000 crypto wallets.
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Collabora Nextcloud app flaw CVE-2026-110447 exploited
Attackers exploited CVE-2026-110447 in Nextcloud's Built-in CODE app from 10 September. Version 26.4.303 fixes it. Here's what to check.