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13:36

7 Scenarios for How the Mueller Probe Might 'Wrap Up'

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2019/02/26

The breaking news hit a snowy Washington on Wednesday: Newly installed attorney general William Barr appears to be preparing to announce the end of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:44

NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About...

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2019/02/26

The phony Facebook pages looked just like the real thing. They were designed to mimic pages that service members use to connect. One appeared to be geared toward a large-scale, military exercise in Europe and was populated by a handful of accounts that appeared to be real service members. In reality, both the pages and the accounts were created and operated by researchers at NATO’s Strategic Communications Center of Excellence, a research group that's affiliated with NATO. Learn more about your ad

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6:56

Security News This Week: Google Forgot To Mention the...

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2019/02/25

The Mueller investigation has lasted so long, it's easy to forget that it'll end at some point. In fact, according to recent reports, it may wrap up as early as next week. But what does that mean exactly? We took a look at seven distinct possibilities, from fizzle to fireworks. As though the border wall "national emergency" wasn't enough to worry about. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:48

The (Non-Trump) Surprise Inside Andrew McCabe's Memoir

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2019/02/25

If New Yorker writer George Packer hadn’t already taken the title, former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe’s new book might be best titled The Unwinding. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:00

A 'Smart Wall' Could Spark a New Kind of Border Crisis

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2019/02/22

After years of promises about a physical wall stretching along the United States-Mexico border, president Donald Trump declared a state of emergency last week in an attempt to secure wall funding in spite of Congressional opposition. But physical barriers alone have always been both ineffective and expensive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:26

The Russian Sleuth Who Outs Moscow's Elite Hackers...

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2019/02/22

Ten years ago, Roman Dobrokhotov sat down in the front row of a Kremlin auditorium, surrounded by a polite audience of journalists and dignitaries attending a speech by Russia’s then-president Dmitri Medvedev. Medvedev was only a few minutes into his address on the importance of the country's constitution—which he had just amended to allow Vladimir Putin to serve as president again—when Dobrokhotov stood up, turned around, and addressed the audience himself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:01

Android Users: Check This Facebook Location Privacy...

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2019/02/21

On Wednesday, Facebook introduced a new privacy setting for Android users. Previously, if you had Location History turned on, the app could track you in the background. In other words, even if you didn’t have the app open, it knew where you were. Now, you can stop it from doing so. And you should. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:18

Hacker Lexicon: What Is Credential Stuffing?

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2019/02/20

You may have noticed this happening more and more lately: Online accounts get taken over in droves, but the companies insist that their systems haven't been compromised. It's maddening, but in many cases, technically they're right. The real culprit is a hacker technique known as "credential stuffing." The strategy is pretty straightforward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:58

Security News This Week: Database Leak Details...

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2019/02/20

The US government averted another shutdown when Donald Trump instead opted to declare a national emergency to fund his border wall dreams—a wall which raises huge privacy and security concerns and will cause more problems than it solves. As the country digested the national emergency, cybersecurity workers were still scrambling to clean up the security nightmare wrought by the longest shutdown in history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:05

Russian Hackers Go From Foothold to Full-On Breach in...

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2019/02/19

In the handwringing post mortem after a hacker breach, the first point of intrusion usually takes the focus: The phishing email that Clinton campaign manager John Podesta's aide accidentally flagged as legit, or the Apache Struts vulnerability that let hackers get access to an Equifax server. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:13

Hacks, Nudes, and Breaches: It's Been a Rough Month...

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2019/02/19

Dating is hard enough without the added stress of worrying about your digital safety online. But social media and dating apps are pretty inevitably involved in romance these days—which makes it a shame that so many of them have had security lapses in such a short amount of time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:03

The Imperfect Truth About Finding Facts in a World of...

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2019/02/18

In the summer of 2006, Fidel Castro unexpectedly announced that he was temporarily handing over power to his brother. Turns out he needed to undergo intestinal surgery. Afterward, an anchor on state-run television read a statement, said to have been written by Castro, attesting that all was well. But there were no photographs of Fidel in recovery, no nine-hour radio address from his hospital bed. Rumors flew that the longtime Cuban leader had died. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:50

Trump Declared an Emergency Based on Data That...

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2019/02/18

Toward the end of a White House press conference Friday morning, during which President Donald Trump declared a national emergency in order to secure up to $8 billion in funding for a border wall, White House reporter Brian Karem stood to ask the president a single question: “What do you base your facts on?” It was the most clarifying question in an hour-long display that at times felt as hard to grasp as a slinky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:56

Instead of a Wall, Congress Puts Border Money Where...

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2019/02/15

After weeks—years, really, but lately more urgent—of debate over the Trump administration's proposed wall at the US-Mexico border, Congress will vote on a spending bill Thursday that includes $1.375 billion for 55 miles of border fence construction. President Donald Trump has long sought $5.7 billion for a more comprehensive concrete or steel structure spanning the 2,000 mile border, but has not managed to garner much political support. Rightly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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13:50

Don’t Get Your Valentine an Internet-Connected Sex Toy

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2019/02/15

Happy Valentine’s Day! Since it’s 2019, you and a partner could celebrate by installing an app on your phone that lets you control a vibrator your partner discreetly wears in their underwear all day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:49

Cybersecurity Workers Scramble to Fix a Post-Shutdown...

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2019/02/14

Two weeks out from the longest government shutdown in United States history—and with the possibility of another still looming—government employees are still scrambling to mitigate impacts on federal cybersecurity defenses. And the stakes are high. Furloughed cybersecurity employees returned to expired software licenses and web encryption certificates, colleagues burned out from working on skeleton crews, and weeks-worth of unanalyzed network activity logs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:05

1 in 3 Americans Suffered Severe Online Harassment in...

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2019/02/14

Despite concerted efforts by tech giants to cut back on abhorrent behavior on their platforms, a new survey finds that severe forms of online hate and harassment, including stalking and physical threats, may be on the rise. According to the survey, released Wednesday by the Anti-Defamation League, more than one third of Americans reported experiencing some type of severe online hate or harassment in 2018. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:16

What Happens If Russia Cuts Itself Off From the Internet

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2019/02/13

The world’s internet infrastructure has no central authority. To keep it working, everyone needs to rely on everyone else. As a result, the global patchwork of undersea cables, satellites, and other technologies that connect the world often ignores the national borders on a map. To stay online, many countries must rely on equipment outside their own confines and control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:58

A Popular Electric Scooter Can Be Hacked to Speed Up...

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2019/02/13

The fleets of electric scooters that have inundated cities are alarming enough as is. Now add cybersercurity concerns to the list: Researchers from the mobile security firm Zimperium are warning that Xiaomi’s popular M365 scooter model has a worrying bug. The flaw could allow an attacker to remotely take over any of the scooters to control crucial things like, ahem, acceleration and braking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:41

Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over...

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2019/02/12

Three of the Senate’s biggest privacy advocates are sending letters to Facebook, Google, and Apple executives Thursday, following a recent TechCrunch report that Facebook used an iOS and Android app to monitor the phones of users as young as 13 years old. The app, called Research and sometimes referred to as Project Atlas, gave Facebook complete visibility into users' app activity, web searches, encrypted data, and even private messages. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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