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10:00

Senators Grill Whistleblower on Cambridge Analytica's...

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2018/05/18

In a highly anticipated hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, lawmakers questioned Christopher Wylie, a former research director for the shadowy political data firm Cambridge Analytica, about the company's history of privacy violations, its contacts with Russia, and its work with Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:59

Gruesome Jihadi Content Still Flourishes on Facebook...

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2018/05/18

Facebook announced this week that algorithms catch 99.5 percent of the terrorism-related content it deletes before a single user reports it. Thanks to steadily advancing AI tools, that's an improvement from last year, when that figure hovered around 97 percent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:30

Inside the Takedown of a Notorious Malware Clearinghouse

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2018/05/17

Most antivirus scanners play a classic cat and mouse game: They work by checking software against a frequently updated list of potential threats. In response, a whole industry has built up to help occlude and conceal hacking tools. That includes services that automate the process of checking all sorts of tools, from malware to malicious URLs, against dozens of defense scanners to see if they would get blocked. The feedback helps bad actors know what to tweak further, and whats ready to use. Learn

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7:04

Jigsaw's Project Shield Will Protect Campaigns From...

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2018/05/17

With midterm elections looming and primaries already underway in many states, anxiety has been building over the possibility of cyberattacks that could impact voting. Though officials and election security researchers alike are adamant that voters can trust the United States election system, they also acknowledge shortcomings of the current security setup. Little time remains to meaningfully improve election security before the midterms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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6:10

White House Cuts Critical Cybersecurity Role as...

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2018/05/16

A little over a month ago, the White House forced out Tom Bossert, its cybersecurity czar. A week later, cybersecurity coordinator Rob Joyce said he would depart as well. And now, rather than replace either, the Trump administration will do without anyone at the helm of its cybersecurity policy. It couldn’t have picked a worse time. The news that the newly appointed national security adviser John Bolton has decided to phase out the cybersecurity coordinator role was first reported by Politico. Learn

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9:43

Encrypted Email Has a Major, Divisive Flaw

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2018/05/15

The ubiquitous email encryption schemes PGP and S/MIME are vulnerable to attack, according to a group of German and Belgian researchers who posted their findings on Monday. The weakness could allow a hacker to expose plaintext versions of encrypted messages—a nightmare scenario for users who rely on encrypted email to protect their privacy, security, and safety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:10

Russia-Linked Facebook Ads Targeted a Sketchy Chrome...

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2018/05/15

Earlier this week, the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released roughly 3,500 Facebook and Instagram ads purchased by the Internet Research Agency, a notorious Russian troll farm. Among them: Ads purchased in May of 2016 that promoted a suspicious Chrome extension that gained wide access to the Facebook accounts and web browsing behavior of those who installed it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:12

Security News This Week: The Hidden Commands Only...

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2018/05/14

This week, the United States officially backed out of the Iran nuclear deal. The geopolitical reverberations should continue to play out in a variety of fields, but make sure you count cybersecurity among them. Iran targeted the US frequently—particularly financial institutions before the deal went into place. Security experts warn that with the agreement no longer in place, the barrage could begin again. So, look out for that! We also took a look at facial recognition technology. Learn more about

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9:33

Facial Recognition Tech Is Creepy When It Works—And...

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2018/05/11

For the last few years, police forces around China have invested heavily to build the world's largest video surveillance and facial recognition system, incorporating more than 170 million cameras so far. In a December test of the dragnet in Guiyang, a city of 4.3 million people in southwest China, a BBC reporter was flagged for arrest within seven minutes of police adding his headshot to a facial recognition database. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:50

The Iran Nuclear Deal's Unraveling Raises Fears of...

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2018/05/10

When the US last tightened its sanctions against Iran in 2012, then-president Barack Obama boasted that they were "virtually grinding the Iranian economy to a halt." Iran fired back with one of the broadest series of cyberattacks ever to target the US, bombarding practically every major American bank with months intermittent distributed denial of service attacks that pummeled their websites with junk traffic, knocking them offline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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4:52

Security News This Week: Drone Swarms Are Messing...

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2018/05/08

The week started with a figurative bang, as a list of questions Robert Mueller's team have for Trump leaked to The New York Times. They all point to one inevitable conclusion: That Mueller almost certainly already knows how all of this ends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:22

How to Keep Hackers Out of Your Facebook and Twitter...

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2018/05/07

It's important to proactively secure your social media accounts, especially since you never know when an innocuous mistake could put you at risk. But it isn't just a theoretical threat. Pranksters, vandals, and malicious attackers all look for ways to get into any legitimate account they can. So while you don't need to hide in a hole, there are some worthwhile (and easy!) steps you can take to keep your accounts from being hijacked. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:21

A Georgia Hacking Bill Gets Cybersecurity All Wrong

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2018/05/07

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6:01

Change Your Twitter Password Right Now

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2018/05/04

On Thursday, Twitter chief technology officer Parag Agrawal disclosed in a blog post that the company had inadvertently recorded user passwords, in plaintext, in an internal system. This is not how things are supposed to go! And while Twitter has fixed the bug, and doesn't think any of the exposed passwords were accessed in any way, you should still change your Twitter password right now to make sure your account is secure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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11:29

A Remote Hack Hijacks Android Phones Via Electric...

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2018/05/04

Nearly four years have passed since researchers began to experiment with a hacking technique known as "Rowhammer," which breaks practically every security model of a computer by manipulating the physical electric charge in memory chips to corrupt data in unexpected ways. Since that attack exploits the most fundamental properties of computer hardware, no software patch can fully fix it. And now, for the first time, hackers have found a way to use Rowhammer against Android phones over the

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10:55

Nigerian Email Scammers Are More Effective Than Ever

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2018/05/03

You would think that after decades of analyzing and fighting email spam, there'd be a fix by now for the internet's oldest hustle—the Nigerian Prince scam. There's generally more awareness that a West African noble demanding $1,000 in order to send you millions is a scam, but the underlying logic of these “pay a little, get a lot” schemes, also known as 419 fraud, still ensnares a ton of people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:34

Cambridge Analytica Shuts Down All Offices Amid...

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2018/05/03

Cambridge Analytica, the embattled data firm that worked on President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, has told employees it is shutting down, along with its UK counterpart SCL Elections. The move, which impacts all offices of both companies worldwide, comes amid recent revelations that the company harvested the data of up to 87 million Facebook users without their consent, according to multiple sources close to the company. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:06

Robert Mueller Likely Knows How This All Ends

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2018/05/02

The beginning of May marks the longest period of public silence from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team since his first charges last October—more than two months without any new plea deals, fresh indictments, or publicly “flipped” witnesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:16

The House Intel Committee's Russia Report Doesn't Let...

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2018/05/01

The Republican majority of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released an over 250-page report Friday outlining its months-long investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The full report, the key findings of which were published in March, finds that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:31

AI Can Help Cybersecurity—If It Can Fight Through the...

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2018/05/01

Walking the enormous exhibition halls at the recent RSA security conference in San Francisco, you could have easily gotten the impression that digital defense was a solved problem. Amidst branded t-shirts and water bottles, each booth hawked software and hardware that promised impenetrable defenses and peace of mind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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