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Security, Spoken

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6:51

Security Experts Unite Over the Right to Repair

Security, Spoken ·

2019/05/01

Two years ago, as Nebraska was considering a “right to repair” bill designed to make it easier for consumers to fix their own gadgets, an Apple lobbyist made a frightening prediction. If the state passed the legislation, it would turn into a haven for hackers, Steve Kester told then-state senator Lydia Brasch. He argued the law would inadvertently give bad actors the opportunity to break into devices like smartphones. The bill was later shelved, in part because of industry pressure. Learn more about

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11:10

The Battle of Winterfell: A Tactical Analysis

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2019/04/30

By now we’re all familiar with the battle tactics in Game of Thrones: Confront your enemy head on—usually in some nicely arrayed lines—and hack at them until no one’s left alive or someone has won. It’s a tried and true method, with little in the way of actual operational depth. And as Sunday night’s Battle of Winterfell showed, it's particularly ineffective against an endless army of the undead. Spoilers ahead, obviously. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:01

Security News This Week: Hackers Found a Freaky New...

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2019/04/30

The week in security news began much as you’d expect: still trying to make sense of the redacted Mueller report, which was released to congress late last week. Garrett M. Graff’s takeaways? The report makes clear that Trump was worse than a “useful idiot,” along with 14 other insights you may have missed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:53

The SIM Swap Fix That the US Isn't Using

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2019/04/29

Around a year ago, André Tenreiro was called into a meeting between the chief technology officer of the phone carrier he worked for—one of the largest in Mozambique—and an executive of the country's largest bank. The latter had seen an escalating pattern of fraud based on so-called SIM swap attacks, where hackers trick or bribe a phone company employee into switching the SIM card associated with a victim's phone number. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:49

GoDaddy Takes Down 15,000 Spammy 'Snake Oil' Subdomains

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2019/04/26

You’ve seen the ads in your email or online: Celebrities supposedly hawking miracle weight loss cures or galaxy brain supplements. They’re at this point endemic to the web, as deeply ingrained as hashtags and puppies. But even though plenty of people fall for them, no one ever really does anything about it. Of all the security threats online, spam ranks pretty low on the priority list. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:50

Mueller Makes It Clear: Trump Was Worse Than a...

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2019/04/25

Back in January, approximately 1,000 Robert Mueller news-cycles ago, I argued that given the arc of the special counsel Russia probe, it’d be embarrassing for Donald Trump if he weren’t an agent of the Russian intelligence: “We’ve reached a point in the Mueller probe where there are only two scenarios left,” I wrote at the time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:06

Mueller Report Fallout Pressures Democrats to Impeach...

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2019/04/25

Democrats in Washington found themselves Friday confronting an unwelcome surprise conclusion following the release of the final report by special counsel Robert Mueller: Maybe we should impeach President Trump after all. Ever since taking back the House of Representatives in January, Democratic leaders have carefully modulated the demands for impeachment from their activist base. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:51

Don't Praise the Sri Lankan Government for Blocking...

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2019/04/24

After a series of bombings killed over 300 people in Sri Lanka Easter Sunday, the country’s government blocked access to social media sites including Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, and the chat app Viber, according to state media and independent organizations that monitor internet blocks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:02

Hackers Can Tell What Netflix Bandersnatch Choices...

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2019/04/24

Netflix made a splash when it debuted Black Mirror: Bandersnatch in December, a "choose your own adventure"-style movie that put viewers in charge of their cinematic destiny. It has since invested in even more interactive programming, including a live-action show featuring survivalist Bear Grylls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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17:33

14 Mueller Report Takeaways You Might Have Missed

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2019/04/23

Robert Mueller’s final 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election—and Donald Trump’s apparent attempts to obstruct justice along the way—takes some time to read fully. On close examination, it turns out to be a deeply compelling document, full of tantalizing revelations and details. Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada called the Mueller Report “the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:25

Security Roundup: Facebook 'Unintentionally'...

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2019/04/23

After months of anticipation and fevered speculation by supporters and critics alike, the public finally laid eyes on the most important release of the past 25 years, its secrets guarded by a famously tight-lipped team up until the very end. That's right, Beyoncé dropped a new album this week. Scholars will analyze its influence for years to come. Robert Mueller's report also came out, at least in redacted form. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:33

Trump’s Homeland Security Purge Worries Cybersecurity...

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2019/04/22

This week kicked off a new, chaotic era at the Department of Homeland Security, where the only certainty seems to be the president’s obsession with immigration. As former Customs and Border Protection commissioner and prominent family-separation advocate Kevin McAleenan takes over as acting secretary, it’s fair to wonder what will happen to the rest of DHS’s many essential responsibilities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:29

Today’s News: Read the Mueller Report; Change Your...

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2019/04/22

Tech news you can use, in two minutes or less: The Mueller Report is much worse for Trump than Barr let on The full (but redacted) Mueller Report is finally here, in its 448 pages of glory. There are lots of takeaways, but the bottom line is the report is much more damaging to Trump than Trump-appointed attorney general William Barr initially said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:14

The Mueller Report Is Out. Here's Where You Can Read It

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2019/04/19

On March 22, special counsel Robert Mueller turned in his long-anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 election—and the question of whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice. Now you can read the whole thing for yourself. Or at least what’s left of it, after attorney general William Barr’s redactions. Barr had initially released a brief summary of the report’s key findings in a four-page letter he sent to Congress on March 24. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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10:05

Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire...

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2019/04/19

The discovery of a new, sophisticated team of hackers spying on dozens of government targets is never good news. But one team of cyberspies has pulled off that scale of espionage with a rare and troubling trick, exploiting a weak link in the internet's cybersecurity that experts have warned about for years: DNS hijacking, a technique that meddles with the fundamental address book of the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:21

A Top Dark Web Drug Ring Goes Down—Thanks to ATM...

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2019/04/18

Until a few weeks ago, sinmed was one of the largest drug vendors at Dream Market, the foremost dark web bazaar. It took in millions of dollars shipping fentanyl-laced heroin, methamphetamines, and hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Xanax tablets across the US—until the New York district attorney's office shut it down, and arrested the three men who allegedly ran it. Dark web takedowns happen all the time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:57

Google's Making It Easier to Safeguard Sensitive Data...

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2019/04/18

When Ivan Medvedev joined Google as a privacy engineering manager in 2013, the company had rogue data anxiety. Its user base and set of services had become so massive that it seemed inevitable that sensitive data could accidentally crop up in unexpected places, like customers filing support tickets with more personal information than necessary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:27

Mysterious Hackers Hid Their Swiss Army Spyware for 5...

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2019/04/17

It's not every day that security researchers discover a new state-sponsored hacking group. Even rarer is the emergence of one whose spyware has 80 distinct components, capable of strange and unique cyberespionage tricks—and who's kept those tricks under wraps for more than five years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:16

Microsoft Email Hack Shows the Lurking Danger of...

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2019/04/17

On Friday night, Microsoft sent notification emails to an unknown number of its individual email users—across Outlook, MSN, and Hotmail—warning them about a data breach. Between January 1 and March 28 of this year, hackers used a set of stolen credentials for a Microsoft customer support platform to access account data like email addresses in messages, message subject lines, and folder names inside accounts. By Sunday, it acknowledged that the problem was actually much worse. Learn more about your

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7:20

William Barr Sends Troubling Signals Ahead of Mueller...

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2019/04/16

The Mueller report has been sitting in the Justice Department for nearly two weeks. Attorney general William Barr told Congress Wednesday he’s hoping the public will finally get a look at the 300-plus page document sometime within the next week, ending a bizarre period of dissembling and fumbling by Barr that has left America with more questions than answers about the seriousness of what Mueller uncovered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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