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7:31

A New App Gives Old Android Versions an Important...

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2018/10/03

Thanks to a push over the last few years, led by Google and others, encrypted HTTPS connections protect more data than ever as it passes between web servers and browsers. But another fundamental component of web browsing too often remains unencrypted: the Domain Name System connections that act as the address lookups of the internet. In Android 9, also known as Android Pie, Google has added a feature called Private DNS to start encrypting DNS on mobile. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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5:57

Hackers Can Stealthily Avoid Traps Set to Defend the...

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2018/10/03

Cloud services host vast quantities of valuable information, making them perpetually attractive targets for hackers. Attackers regularly develop new and clever ways to access cloud accounts—or find ones that have been left exposed—and exfiltrate data. Those in charge of protecting cloud accounts have their own methods of shoring up defenses and securing account perimeters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:09

How the Kavanaugh Information War Mirrors Real Warzones

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2018/10/02

As the controversy surrounding the Supreme Court confirmation for Judge Brett Kavanaugh escalates, the online conversation around it has started to feel less like a debate and more like a war. That’s because it is one. WIRED OPINION ABOUT P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking are the authors of LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, out Oct 2, 2018. It's been more than three decades since the alleged sexual assaults. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:42

Everything We Know About Facebook's Massive Security...

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2018/10/02

Facebook’s privacy problems severely escalated Friday when the social network disclosed that an unprecedented security issue, discovered September 25, impacted almost 50 million user accounts. Unlike the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a third-party company erroneously accessed data that a then-legitimate quiz app had siphoned up, this vulnerability allowed attackers to directly take over user accounts. The bugs that enabled the attack have since been patched, according to Facebook. Learn more

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6:51

The Facebook Security Meltdown Exposes Way More Sites...

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2018/10/01

On Friday, Facebook revealed that it had suffered a security breach that impacted at least 50 million of its users, and possibly as many as 90 million. What it failed to mention initially, but revealed in a followup call Friday afternoon, is that the flaw affects more than just Facebook. If your account was impacted it means that a hacker could have accessed any account that you log into using Facebook. That's a lot of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:43

Voting Machines Are Still Absurdly Vulnerable to Attacks

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2018/10/01

While Russian interference operations in the 2016 US presidential elections focused on misinformation and targeted hacking, officials have scrambled ever since to shore up the nation's vulnerable election infrastructure. New research, though, shows they haven't done nearly enough, particularly when it comes to voting machines. The report details vulnerabilities in seven models of voting machines and vote counters, found during the DefCon security conference's Voting Village event. Learn more about

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8:35

Russia’s Elite Hackers Have a Clever New Trick That's...

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2018/09/28

The Fancy Bear hacking group has plenty of tools at its disposal, as evidenced by its attacks against the Democratic National Committee, the Pyeongchang Olympics, and plenty more. But cybersecurity firm ESET appears to have caught the elite Russian team using a technique so advanced, it hadn’t ever been seen in the wild until now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:33

Mobile Websites Can Tap Into Your Phone's Sensors...

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2018/09/27

When an app wants to access data from your smartphone's motion or light sensors, iOS and Android require them to get your permission first. That keeps a fitness app, say, from counting your steps without your knowledge. But a team of researchers has discovered that those rules don't apply to websites loaded in mobile browsers, which can often often access an array of device sensors without any notifications or permissions whatsoever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:40

The 3-D Printed Gun Machine Rolls On, With or Without...

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2018/09/26

For over half a decade, Cody Wilson has been a unique thorn in the side of anyone who advocates even the most minimal form of gun control. More than any person else on the planet, the creator of the world's first 3-D printed gun has advanced the dangerous idea that with digital DIY tools, anyone can make a deadly weapon at home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:31

Even If Rosenstein Stays, the Mueller Investigation...

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2018/09/26

What was already setting up to be one of the biggest, most consequential weeks of Trump’s presidency—as the commander-in-chief, in New York, chaired a meeting of the United Nations and, in Washington, the city braced for a showdown over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh—saw the stakes appear to rise to historic levels by noon Monday, as news outlets raced to report the long anticipated denouement of deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein. It was not to be. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:00

A Seemingly Small Change to Chrome Stirs Big Controversy

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2018/09/25

Though Chrome launched in 2008 as a scrappy upstart, it has for years been the dominant web browser, with over 60 percent market share on both desktop and mobile. So when Chrome adjusts its features or policies, it impacts a huge chunk of people worldwide. And a recent change to how Chrome treats logins has shown how poorly those alterations can go over. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:55

The New YubiKey Will Help Kill the Password

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2018/09/24

By now it's hopefully been drilled into you to enable two-factor authentication on your online accounts, giving you more protection than a password alone. And while the most ubiquitous second factor is a numeric code sent to your smartphone via an app, physical tokens that you plug into your computer have become increasingly popular. And now they're angling to make passwords obsolete. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:31

Clouldflare and Google Will Help Sync the Internet's...

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2018/09/21

Cryptography schemes are complicated to understand and implement. A lot of things can go wrong. But when it comes to web encryption, a surprising number errors actually stem from a straightforward and seemingly basic mechanism: timekeeping. Synced clocks in operating systems may make digital timekeeping look easy, but it takes a lot of work behind the scenes, and doesn't always solve problems online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:09

How the HTC Exodus Blockchain Phone Plans to Secure...

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2018/09/20

Blockchain phones are coming, that much is certain. The Sirin Labs Finney and the HTC Exodus are both expected by the end of the year, each with its own, sometimes vaguely defined sense of what exactly that term means. HTC’s Phil Chen, who spearheaded Exodus development, has at least started to fill in the blanks of how the Exodus will pull off its most important trick: keeping your cryptocurrency safe. The Exodus has loftier ambitions than mere storage, of course. Learn more about your ad choices

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9:26

John Deere Just Swindled Farmers Out of Their Right...

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2018/09/20

The fight for our right to repair the stuff we own has suffered a huge setback. As anyone who repairs electronics knows, keeping a device in working order often means fixing both its hardware and software. But a big California farmers’ lobbying group just blithely signed away farmers’ right to access or modify the source code of any farm equipment software. As an organization representing 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:06

The Collateral Damage of Trump's Extreme...

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2018/09/19

On Monday evening, the White House released an order instructing the Department of Justice and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify excerpts from an array of documents related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference. He has every legal right to do so. But national security analysts and former intelligence officials say that such a demand isn't just largely unprecedented; it's potentially dangerous. Learn more about your ad choices

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12:42

The Mirai Botnet Architects Are Now Fighting Crime...

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2018/09/19

The three college-age defendants behind the creation of the Mirai botnet—an online tool that wreaked destruction across the internet in the fall of 2016 with unprecedentedly powerful distributed denial of service attacks—will stand in an Alaska courtroom Tuesday and ask for a novel ruling from a federal judge: They hope to be sentenced to work for the FBI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:39

Edward Snowden on Protecting Activists Against...

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2018/09/18

WIRED ICON Edward Snowden, NSA whistle-blower NOMINATES Malkia Cyril, Founder of the Center for Media Justice, cofounder of Media Action Grassroots Network October 2018. Subscribe to WIRED.Plunkett + Kuhr DesignersPeople generally associate the word radical with extreme. But I prefer to think of the word in reference to its Latin origin:radix, the root of the issue. My friend Malkia Cyril is a radical in the truest sense of the word. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:00

Facebook Broadens Its Bug Bounty to Help Fix...

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2018/09/18

Facebook was a relatively early proponent of so-called bug bounties, paying out more than $6 million to security researchers who have spotted vulnerabilities in its platform since its program launched in 2011. But as the social network has faced a series of high profile and impactful controversies, its bug bounty increasingly doubles as an opportunity for Facebook to demonstrate maturation. That trend continues Monday, with the company's latest expansion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:45

A Decade-Old Attack Can Break the Encryption of Most PCs

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2018/09/17

If you want to secure the data on your computer, one of the most important steps you can take is encrypting its hard drive. That way, if your laptop gets lost or stolen—or someone can get to it when you're not around—everything remains protected and inaccessible. But researchers at the security firm F-Secure have uncovered an attack that uses a decade-old technique, which defenders thought they had stymied, to expose those encryption keys, allowing a hacker to decrypt your data. Learn more about

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