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6:37

As the Government Shutdown Drags on, Security Risks...

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2019/01/23

The current federal government shutdown, the longest in United States history, is in its fourth week, with no clear path to resolution. With 800,000 federal employees on full or partial leave as a result, cybersecurity experts raised an early alarm about how the shutdown would impact US cybersecurity. Those early concerns have since compounded, and evolved into a mounting crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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3:13

Jargon Watch: The Rising Danger of Stochastic Terrorism

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2019/01/22

Stochastic Terrorism n. Acts of violence by random extremists, triggered by political demagoguery. When President Trump tweeted a video of himself body-slamming the CNN logo in 2017, most people took it as a stupid joke. For Cesar Sayoc, it may have been a call to arms: Last October the avowed Trump fan allegedly mailed a pipe bomb to CNN headquarters. No one told Sayoc to do it, but the fact that it happened was really no surprise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:34

Security News This Week: Did Russia Take Another Shot...

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2019/01/22

Late Thursday night, Buzzfeed published a report that President Donald Trump instructed his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress. If true, it means impeachment can’t be far off. In fact, Trump’s behavior has been so broadly suspect, Garrett Graff argues, that he’s either a Russian agent or the biggest “useful idiot” in history. Or both. In other government news, we took a look at the major toll the government shutdown has taken on US cybersecurity. Learn more about your ad

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4:53

How to Find Your Netflix Freeloaders—and Kick Them Out

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2019/01/21

With Netflix's recent price hike announcement, you may be taking stock of all the streaming accounts you pay for every month. It's no secret that the easiest way to cut down without sacrificing Blue Planet is to share logins with friends, family, or your neighbor's cousin's coworker. The Greatest Generation had party lines, and millennials have communal cord-cutting. No judgment here if you're voluntarily sharing your Hulu or Netflix or Spotify account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:55

If Trump Told Cohen to Lie, Impeachment Is Coming

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2019/01/21

As the government shutdown neared the one-month mark, the political landscape shifted under Washington’s feet Thursday night, dramatically and perhaps permanently altering the path of our nation’s politics. BuzzFeed’s duo of Russia probe reporters posted a blockbuster report that President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow Project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:00

Be Careful Using Bots on Telegram

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2019/01/18

The secure messaging app Telegram is significant for two very different reasons. One is that the app is a go-to encrypted communication tool for hundreds of millions of users around the world, particularly those looking to duck government surveillance and censorship in countries like Russia and Iran. The other is that many cryptography experts have cast doubt on the integrity of Telegram's encryption scheme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:37

How the Feds Failed to Track Thousands of Separated...

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2019/01/18

They kept the kids in cages. And Excel spreadsheets. And more than 60 other government files and databases that made it nearly impossible to track the thousands of children who have been separated from their parents by the Trump administration while trying to enter the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:49

Hack Brief: An Astonishing 773 Million Records...

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2019/01/17

There are breaches, and there are megabreaches, and there’s Equifax. But a newly revealed trove of leaked data tops them all for sheer volume: 772,904,991 million unique email addresses, over 21 million unique passwords, all recently posted to a hacking forum. The data set was first reported by security researcher Troy Hunt, who maintains Have I Been Pwned, a way to search whether your own email or password has been compromised by a breach at any point. (Trick question: It has. Learn more about your

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6:26

A 'Fortnite' Vulnerability Exposed Accounts to Takeover

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2019/01/17

Fortnite topped 200 million registered players at the end of 2018, continuing its run of massive growth and dominance in online gaming. But huge platforms also inevitably have huge targets on their backs. Fortnite has already dealt with its share of digital security issues, particularly scams like imposter Android apps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:03

Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless...

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2019/01/16

If you use social media, you've probably noticed a trend across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of people posting their then-and-now profile pictures, mostly from 10 years ago and this year. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Kate O'Neill is the founder of KO Insights and the author of Tech Humanist and Pixels and Place: Connecting Human Experience Across Physical and Digital Spaces. Instead of joining in, I posted the following semi-sarcastic tweet: https://twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:09

How GPS Tracking Technology Can Curb Domestic Violence

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2019/01/16

When the US government shut down on December 21stthere was an overlooked victim: the Violence Against Women Act, which expired the same day. That lapse means that new funds for Department of Justice’s VAWA programs, such as hotlines, shelters, crisis centers, and legal assistance, will not be funded until the law is reauthorized. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Gianmarco Raddi is an MD/PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, UCLA, and the National Institutes of Health. Learn more about your ad choices

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5:20

Security News This Week: Employees May Have Snooped...

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2019/01/14

Another week, another crypto heist. This time, Ethereum Classic was the target, when hackers stole around $1.1 million worth of coins by taking over 51-percent of the currency’s network. Another familiar blunder came this week when it was revealed that technologically challenged convicted criminal Paul Manafort had yet another problem using basic tech. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:30

A Worldwide Hacking Spree Uses DNS Trickery to Nab Data

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2019/01/14

Iranian hackers have been busy lately, ramping up an array of targeted attacks across the Middle East and abroad. And a report this week from the threat intelligence firm FireEye details a massive global data-snatching campaign, carried out over the last two years, that the firm has preliminarily linked to Iran. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:24

A Growing Frontier for Terrorist Groups: Unsuspecting...

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2019/01/11

Heads up, tech companies: If your product appeals to the masses, it likely also holds allure for terrorist groups like ISIS. WIRED OPINION ABOUT Rita Katzis the Executive Director and founder of theSITE Intelligence Group, the world’s leading non-governmental counterterrorism organization specializing in tracking and analyzing the online activity of the global extremist community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:36

Your Old Tweets Give Away More Location Data Than You...

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2019/01/11

An international group of researchers has developed an algorithmic tool that uses Twitter to automatically predict exactly where you live in a matter of minutes, with more than 90 percent accuracy. It can also predict where you work, where you pray, and other information you might rather keep private, like, say, whether you’ve frequented a certain strip club or gone to rehab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:17

Carriers Swore They'd Stop Selling Location Data....

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2019/01/10

Location data is some of the most sensitive, and sought after, information that smartphones generate. And wireless providers are in a unique position to access it all the time. But a Tuesday report from Motherboard shows that carriers don't protect this deeply private information as carefully as consumers might think—especially considering that Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T all pledged to stop selling it months ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:20

Paul Manafort Is Terrible With Technology

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2019/01/10

Paul Manafort has a horrible track record when it comes to digital security. The latest reminder came this week, when his defense lawyers failed to sufficiently redact portions of a court filing submitted on Tuesday, responding to Robert Mueller’s claims that Manafort violated his plea agreement with the special counsel by lying to prosecutors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:48

A YubiKey for iOS Will Soon Free Your iPhone From...

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2019/01/09

Over the last several years, Yubico has become close to ubiquitous in the field of hardware authentication. Its YubiKey token can act as a second layer of security for your online accounts, and even let you skip out on using passwords altogether. The only problem? It’s been largely unusable on the iPhone. That’s going to change soon. The upshot: Yubico has received MFi certification, meaning Apple will officially support it as a hardware partner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:22

Robert Mueller’s 2019 To-Do List

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2019/01/08

Last Friday, just like Punxsutawney Phil, DC District Court judge Beryl Howell emerged from her chambers, saw her shadow, and announced six more months of Bob Mueller. Judge Howell’s extension of Mueller’s grand jury, which was set to expire over the weekend, was widely expected—the special counsel’s office has made clear in recent weeks that it has plenty of unfinished business—but the extension underscores just how much work is still left in Mueller’s probe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:54

Security News This Week: The 'Twinning' Site Leaked...

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2019/01/07

You know what they say, the first hacks of January set the tone for the rest of year. (Wait, no one has ever said that.) But with that in mind, we tried to bring you mostly good news this week. First up, we explained why Tor, that wondrous anonymizer, is now easier to use than ever. As the world descends further into digital authoritarianism, anonymity networks like Tor become even more important. And thanks to a slew of improvements last year, Tor has become accessible for just about

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