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6:07

Twitter Continues Cleanup and Cracks Down on...

Security, Spoken ·

2018/07/26

Several weeks ago, my friend Jeff signed up for an online Twitter application that promised to delete his old tweets. It was advertised merely as a simple way to clear your online presence, but after Jeff used it, he noticed that his account began retweeting spam. Out of an abundance of caution, he deleted his Twitter account entirely. On Tuesday, Twitter announced steps it was taking to curb this exact sort of abuse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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14:00

Equifax's Security Overhaul, a Year After Its Epic...

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2018/07/25

A year ago this week, the credit bureau Equifax saw signs of a problem on its network of a problem. A really big problem. Hackers had entered the company’s network, stealing the personal and financial data of more than 147 million people in the United States, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses, and some driver's license numbers and credit card numbers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:20

Google Chrome Now Labels HTTP Sites as 'Not Secure'

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2018/07/25

Nearly two years ago, Google made a pledge: It would name and shame websites with unencrypted connections, a strategy designed to spur web developers to embrace HTTPS encryption. On Tuesday, it finally follows through. With the launch of Chrome 68, Google will now call out sites with unencrypted connections as “Not Secure” in the URL bar. The move flips the convention of how Chrome displays the security of sites on its head. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:16

Why Trump Won't Stop Talking About the Carter Page...

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2018/07/24

On Saturday, in response to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits filed by several news outlets and conservative group Judicial Watch, the Justice Department took the unprecedented step of releasing the (heavily redacted) application to wiretap former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. In a series of eight tweets fired off over the next two days, Trump reveled in the document, declaring it evidence of “an illegal scam,” and further proof of the “witch hunt” against him. Learn more about your ad

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6:15

Security News This Week: Maybe Go Ahead and Make Your...

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2018/07/24

This week started with a controversial, widely derided meeting between President Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and ended with… an invite for round two! And yes, all manner of craziness managed to happen in between. That includes yet more denials on Trump’s part that Russia interfered—and continues to—with US democracy, a stance that has serious repercussions, however many times he walks it back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:23

How to Secure Your Accounts With Better Two-Factor...

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2018/07/23

Hopefully by now you’ve heeded the repeated warnings from your friends and loved ones (and friendly, beloved internet writers) to use two-factor authentication to secure your digital accounts. That’s where access to Facebook or Twitter or your online bank—anything that supports it, really—requires not just a password but also a special code. Not all two-factor is created equal, however. For better protection, you’re going to want an authenticator app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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10:14

The Midterm Elections Are Already Under Attack

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2018/07/23

With primaries underway and less than four months to go until this year's midterm elections, early signs of attack have already arrived—just as the US intelligence community warned. And yet Congress has still not done everything in its power to defend against them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:22

Why It Matters That Trump Denies Russian Interference

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2018/07/20

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump appeared to downplay Russia’s efforts to interfere with US democracy for a third time this week. The first had come during a joint press conference with Russian president Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, a 45-minute exercise in kowtowing to a hostile foreign leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:05

Rubio, Warner Stress Election Security After...

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2018/07/20

Perhaps one of the most surprising parts of Monday's jaw-dropping joint press conference between United States President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is that it compelled a Democratic and a Republican member of Congress to admit, in front of a room full of press and international lawmakers, that they actually agree with each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:04

Amazon Tests Out Two Tools to Help Keep Its Cloud Secure

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2018/07/19

Amazon Web Services is the world's biggest cloud provider. As a result, its security directly influences that of countless websites and online services. And those concerns aren't just theoretical; dangerous lapses happen all the time. Customers store all sorts of datasets and raw information in AWS repositories, which then become part of their own infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:11

The Trump-Putin Press Conference Gave Russia...

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2018/07/19

Over the course of a roughly 45-minute press conference Monday, President Donald Trump stood beside Russian leader Vladimir Putin both physically and metaphorically. He repeatedly, pointedly declined to acknowledge that Russia interfered in the 2016 election, contrary to the assessment of every relevant US intelligence agency and a fistful of detailed indictments from special counsel Robert Mueller. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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24:13

Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing...

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2018/07/18

When we met in early March, Jonathan Albright was still shrugging off a sleepless weekend. It was a few weeks after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had killed 17 people, most of them teenagers, and promptly turned the internet into a cesspool of finger pointing and conspiracy slinging. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:56

Schools Can Now Get Facial Recognition Tech for Free....

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2018/07/18

Like many parents in the United States, Rob Glaser has been thinking a lot lately about how to keep his kids from getting shot in school. Specifically, he’s been thinking of what he can do that doesn’t involve getting into a nasty and endless battle over what he calls “the g-word.” It’s not that Glaser opposes gun control. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:42

Security Roundup: Ukraine Blocked a Russian Hack of...

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2018/07/17

After four months of relative quiet from the special counsel's office, Robert Mueller Friday indicted a dozen Russians for their role in hacking the DNC, DCCC, and the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. It's unlikely they'll ever actually get arrested, but it's safe to say we know a lot more about Russian intelligence than we did last week. And speaking of Russian intelligence, this week it also became apparent that Facebook gave Russian internet giant Mail. Learn more about your ad choices

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15:47

How a ‘Sentiment Meter’ Helps Cops Understand Their...

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2018/07/16

Three weeks into his new job as commanding officer of Manhattan’s 20th precinct, Captain Timothy J. Malin stared at a map on his computer screen, puzzled. It showed his jurisdiction carved up by streets and parks, with the southern edge encased in an ominous shade of red. For decades, the New York Police Department has used real-time statistics to chart spikes in violence and calibrate police activity across the city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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16:58

Indicting 12 Russian Hackers Could Be Mueller's...

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2018/07/16

In some ways, special counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of 12 Russian intelligence officers for their hacking and attack on the 2016 presidential election is Mueller’s least surprising move yet—but it might also be his single most significant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:24

How the US Government Secretly Sold 'Spy Phones' to...

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2018/07/13

In 2010, a suspected cocaine smuggler named John Krokos bought encrypted BlackBerry devices from an undercover Drug Enforcement Administration agent. That sort of federal subterfuge is par for the course. But in this case, the DEA held onto the encryption keys—meaning that when the government moved on Krokos and his alleged collaborators a few years later, they could read the emails and messages that passed to and from the phone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:04

Senators Fear Meltdown and Spectre Disclosure Gave...

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2018/07/12

A Wednesday Congressional hearing on the Meltdown and Spectre chip vulnerabilities had all the technobabble and painful misunderstanding you might expect. But the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation also raised an important practical concern: No one informed the US government about the flaws until they were publicly disclosed at the beginning of January. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:52

Facebook Gave a Russian Internet Giant a Special Data...

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2018/07/12

Since March, when news broke that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica used a Facebook app to amass data on as many as 87 million people without their consent, the social networking giant has been forced to repeatedly answer for how it has given away user data and who it's given that data to. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:44

Apple's China-Friendly Censorship Caused an...

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2018/07/11

Last April, while security researcher Patrick Wardle was attending the RSA security conference in San Francisco, a Taiwanese friend who lived in the city asked to meet for coffee, and for his help with what she described as a serious problem: China, she said, was hacking her iPhone. Wardle, a former NSA staffer and a prominent Apple-focused hacker who founded Digita Security, had heard that request from paranoid friends and acquaintances plenty of times before, making him naturally skeptical. Learn

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