Subscribers who average more than 200GB of data downloaded per month have been told they have until February 16 to either move to a different plan or find a new carrier. It's believed atleast 8,200 customers have been sent the letters notifying them of an impending shutdown.

As far back as July of last year, there were reports of a mass-cancellation for those who used extremely high amounts of data on their wireless plans.

The attack against MongoDB is a fairly simple one and is taking advantage of databases that have been misconfigured and left open, without the need for a user to first have proper administrative credentials. Once the attackers log into the open database, the next step is to fully take control and then steal or encrypt the database, offering it back to the victims only on receipt of the Bitcoin ransom payment.

The solution to the MongoDB security risk involves database administrators following the security checklist that MongoDB outlines on its website. The very first item on the checklist is 'enable access control and enforce authentication.'

The U.S. government quietly began requesting that select foreign visitors provide their Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts upon arriving in the country, a move designed to spot potential terrorist threats that drew months of opposition from tech giants and privacy hawks alike.

The new policy comes as Washington tries to improve its ability to spot and deny entry to individuals who have ties to terrorist groups like the Islamic State.

Following an argument with YouTube, PewDiePie had said he'd delete his channel on Friday evening after he got 50 million subscribers.

Most people thought he meant his main channel, PewDiePie, but he actually deleted a different one - Jack Septiceye2.

In a video uploaded on Friday, video gamer Mr Kjellberg said he would delete his channel when it reached 50 million subscribers as a result of his frustration with the platform.

Mr Kjellberg is currently producing new episodes of his YouTube-financed series Scare PewDiePie, and on Tuesday topped Forbes' list of highest-paid YouTube stars for the second year in a row.

The malicious script is concealed in the alpha channel that defines the transparency of pixels, making it extremely difficult for even sharp-eyed ad networks to detect. After verifying that the targeted browser isn't running in a virtual machine or connected to other types of security software often used to detect attacks, the script redirects the browser to a site that hosts three exploits for now-patched Adobe Flash vulnerabilities.

Despite targeting only people using IE and unpatched versions of Flash, Stegano is noteworthy for its concealment of exploit code in the pixels of the banner ads. There's no reason future campaigns—or possibly ongoing ones that have yet to be discovered—couldn't exploit zero-day vulnerabilities that infected a much larger base of people. Until ad networks get much better at detecting malvertising campaigns, the scourge is likely to continue.

"Based on the error pattern, we cannot exclude the possibility that the routers have been targeted by external parties with the result that they can no longer register on the network."

The company, which has 20 million customers in Germany, has issued a software update and is asking affected customers to disconnect their routers.

When logging into the website with a Google account it scans for apps and services you’ve created an account for, and creates a list of them with easy delete links.

Every account it finds gets paired with an easy delete link pointing to the unsubscribe page for that service. Within in a few clicks you’re freed from it, and depending on how long you need to work through the entire list, you can be account-less within the hour.

Oracle is also in the midst of a reinvention: it wants to become a cloud computing company that can compete with the likes of Amazon and Google. In that case, the acquisition of Dyn just might give Oracle a much-needed asset.

Amazon and Google already offer their own DNS services. So in a sense, Dyn just makes Oracle’s cloud offering more complete.

Snap, the parent company of messaging app Snapchat, has filed to list on the US stock market, according to several reports.

And while Snap won't comment - it's thought it could be valued at $25bn (£20bn).