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12:32

Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to...

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2020/02/17

Last month, the cryptographer and coder known as Moxie Marlinspike was getting settled on an airplane when his seatmate, a midwestern-looking man in his 60s, asked for help. He couldn't figure out how to enable airplane mode on his aging Android phone. But when Marlinspike saw the screen, he wondered for a moment if he was being trolled: Among just a handful of apps installed on the phone was Signal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:03

Google's Giving Out Security Keys to Help Protect...

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2020/02/14

Malign foreign influence operations during the 2016 United States presidential election season raised awareness about the need for tighter security within campaigns. And while the 2020 presidential campaigns have shown some improvement, many are still seriously lagging—and facing real threats—with nine months left before election day. Now Google is trying to help move the needle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:44

How to Get Your Yahoo Breach Settlement Money

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2020/02/13

Well, here we are again. Even years later, it's still hard to fully grasp the degree to which Yahoo failed at protecting the data of billions of people across multiple breaches in the 2010s. But now, thanks to a class action suit against Yahoo that has reached a proposed settlement, you have until July 20 to file a claim if you were impacted. Don't miss out on your chance for a $100 apology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:07

Facebook's Bug Bounty Caught a Data-Stealing Spree

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2020/02/12

Despite its best damage control efforts, Facebook is still dogged by its checkered past on data privacy. But at least some of the security mechanisms the company has put in place are catching problems—and helping them get fixed. Facebook said on Friday that in 2019 its bug bounty saw its largest number of accepted bugs since the program launched nine years ago, paid out its highest single reward ever, and began inviting select researchers to evaluate new features before they launched. Learn more

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6:28

Security News This Week: Pro-Trump Trolls Flooded the...

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2020/02/11

The week kicked off with the Iowa caucuses, which went very poorly, in so many ways! We'll talk about a few of them below, but the main takeaway is that adding unvetted technology to the voting process—or anything—rarely makes things better. Other states, please take note! Actually, Nevada and New Hampshire already have. It's a start. In another unwelcome technological evolution, ransomware has started targeting industrial control systems, which bodes poorly for critical infrastructure. Learn more

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7:55

Trump Now Has the Senate GOP's Blessing to Undermine...

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2020/02/10

Welcome to a dark day in America’s modern experiment with democracy. Despite becoming the first president ever to receive votes from both parties to convict and remove him from office in an impeachment trial, President Donald Trump today woke up in the White House unbound. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:46

An Artist Used 99 Phones to Fake a Google Maps...

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2020/02/07

Almost three years ago, artist Simon Weckert noticed something unusual at a May Day demonstration in Berlin: Google Maps showed there was a massive traffic jam, even though there were zero cars on the road. Soon enough, Weckert realized that it was the mass of people, or more specifically their smartphones, that had inadvertently tricked Google into seeing gridlock on an empty street. And then he decided to do it himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:49

This Identity Activist Wants to Make Facebook Obsolete

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2020/02/06

Kaliya Young doesn’t want to break up Facebook. She wants to make it obsolete. She was an Olympic-level water polo player for Canada, but in 2002 was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Freshly graduated from university and living in the San Francisco Bay Area, she went through months of radiation and chemotherapy that sapped her physical strength. In her mid-twenties, far from home, no longer an athlete, Young felt intensely alone. Wired UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Learn more

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6:52

Security News This Week: Windows 7 Gets One Last...

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2020/02/05

Have you heard about this little thing called Space Force? If so, it's probably through ridicule; the latest branch of the US military has received no shortage of it since it launched at the end of last year. Still, at least it had a better week than Intel, which had to release a patch for a patch for its patch of its ZombieLoad problem. Say that five times fast. This week we also took a look at the most common Mac malware, at least by antivirus firm Kaspersky's reckoning. Learn more about your ad

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8:27

Dashlane's Super Bowl Ad Proves Password Managers...

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2020/02/04

This year’s crop of Super Bowl ads includes plenty of the usual suspects: expensive cars, cheap beers, big tech. But among the companies coughing up a reported $5.6 million for 30 seconds of Big Game glory is one name most people have never heard of, selling a product that many don’t know exists: Dashlane, an app that manages your passwords. It’s not that password management is entirely novel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:20

Warren Pledges to Fight Disinformation, but Her...

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2020/02/03

Elizabeth Warren has a plan for dealing with disinformation. Sort of. Yesterday, the Democratic senator and presidential candidate known for her detailed policy objectives released a proposal titled “Fighting Digital Disinformation.” The part about what she intends to do as president, however, is a bit thin by her standards. The bulk of the plan is devoted instead to what Warren wants social media platforms to do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:38

Scraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI...

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2020/01/31

The internet was designed to make information free and easy for anyone to access. But as the amount of personal information online has grown, so too have the risks. Last weekend, a nightmare scenario for many privacy advocates arrived. The New York Times revealed Clearview AI, a secretive surveillance company, was selling a facial recognition tool to law enforcement powered by “three billion images” culled from the open web. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:21

One Small Fix Would Curb Stingray Surveillance

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2020/01/30

Law enforcement in the United States, international spies, and criminals have all used (and abused) the surveillance tools known as "stingrays" for more than a decade. The devices can track people's locations and even eavesdrop on their calls, all thanks to weaknesses in the cellular network. Today, researchers are detailing a way to stop them—if only telecoms would listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:24

The Sneaky Simple Malware That Hits Millions of Macs

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2020/01/29

The popular misconception that Macs don’t get viruses has become a lot less popular in recent years, as Apple devices have weathered their fair share of bugs. But it’s still surprising that the most prolific malware on macOS—by one count, affecting one in 10 devices—is so relatively crude. This week, antivirus company Kaspersky detailed the 10 most common threats its macOS users encountered in 2019. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:18

Free Press Advocates Decry Cybercrime Charges Against...

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2020/01/28

In a criminal complaint released Monday, the Brazilian government is charging journalist Glenn Greenwald with committing cybercrimes. The accusations are connected to leaked text messages that Greenwald reported on last year for The Intercept Brasil, which the outspoken journalist launched in 2016 as a spinoff of the US-based news site he had founded two years prior. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:35

Inside the World's Highest-Stakes Industrial Hacking...

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2020/01/27

On a small, blue-lit stage in a dim side room of the Fillmore Theater in Miami on Tuesday, three men sat behind laptops in front of a small crowd. Two of them nervously reviewed the commands on a screen in front of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:09

Everything We Know About the Jeff Bezos Phone Hack

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2020/01/24

On November 8, 2018, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos received an unexpected text message from Saudi Arabian leader Mohammed bin Salman. The two had exchanged numbers a few months prior, in April, at a small dinner in Los Angeles, but weren’t in regular contact; Bezos had previously received only a video file from the crown prince in May that reportedly extolled Saudi Arabia’s economy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:42

A Handy Chrome Feature, a Sonos Update Warning, and...

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2020/01/23

Chrome is protecting and Sonos is disconnecting, but first: a cartoon about the new big screen. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today’s News Don't ignore Chrome's new password checkup feature If you've logged in to any accounts on Google Chrome recently, you've probably noticed a new pop-up nagging you about your password security. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:13

An Open Source Bid to Encrypt the Internet of Things

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2020/01/22

End-to-end encryption is a staple of secure messaging apps like WhatsApp and Signal. It ensures that no one—even the app developer—can access your data as it traverses the web. But what if you could bring some version of that protection to increasingly ubiquitous—and notoriously insecure—Internet of Things devices? The Swiss cryptography firm Teserakt is trying just that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:57

Twitch Has Become a Haven for Live Sports Piracy

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2020/01/21

As Liverpool soccer player Roberto Firmino clutched out the only goal of the club's December 21 FIFA Club World Cup match before a live audience of over 45,000, at least twice as many fans were tuned in somewhere better suited to FIFA 20, the video game: the streaming platform Twitch. While the game roiled on, three of the top 10 livestreams listed in Twitch’s directory were simulcasts of the FIFA Club World Cup match—with 14,000, 33,000, and 53,000 viewers respectively. Learn more about your ad

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