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8:01

YouTube Will Link Directly to Wikipedia to Fight...

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2018/03/15

After the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, in February, the top trending video on YouTube wasn’t a news clip about the tragedy but a conspiracy theory video suggesting survivor David Hogg was an actor. The video garnered 200,000 views before YouTube removed it from its platform. Until now, the company hasn’t said much about how it plans to handle the spread of that sort of misinformation moving forward. On Tuesday, however, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki detailed a potential solution. Learn more

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8:24

Florida Could Start a Criminal-Justice Data Revolution

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2018/03/14

There’s no such thing as the US criminal justice system. There are, instead, thousands of counties across the country, each with their own systems, made up of a diffuse network of sheriffs, court clerks, prosecutors, public defenders, and jail officials who all enforce the rules around who does and doesn’t end up behind bars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:01

Researchers Point to an AMD Backdoor—And Face Their...

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2018/03/14

When the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities were revealed in millions of processors earlier this year, those deep-seated vulnerabilities rattled practically the entire computer industry. Now a group of Israeli researchers is outlining a new set of chip-focused vulnerabilities that, if confirmed, would represent another collection of flaws at the core of computer hardware, this time in a processor architecture designed by AMD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:34

How Creative DDOS Attacks Still Slip Past Defenses

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2018/03/13

Distributed denial of service attacks, in which hackers use a targeted hose of junk traffic to overwhelm a service or take a server offline, have been a digital menace for decades. But in just the last 18 months, the public picture of DDoS defense has evolved rapidly. In fall 2016, a rash of then-unprecedented attacks caused internet outages and other service disruptions at a series of internet infrastructure and telecom companies around the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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10:38

Router-Hacking 'Slingshot' Spy Operation Compromised...

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2018/03/12

Routers, both the big corporate kind and the small one gathering dust in the corner of your home, have long made an attractive target for hackers. They're always on and connected, often full of unpatched security vulnerabilities, and offer a convenient chokepoint for eavesdropping on all the data you pipe out to the internet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:45

Russian Propaganda Remains on Reddit

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2018/03/12

Of all of the tech platforms that Russian trolls infiltrated during the run-up to the 2016 election in the United States, Reddit has been among the least forthcoming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:27

Ad-Blocker Ghostery Just Went Open Source—And Has a...

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2018/03/09

In privacy-focused, anti-establishment corners of the internet, going open source can earn you a certain amount of street cred. It signals that you not only have nothing to hide, but also welcome the rest of the world to help make your project better. For Ghostery though, the company that makes Edward Snowden’s recommended ad blocker, publishing all its code on GitHub Thursday also means clearing up some confusion about its past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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19:29

Operation Bayonet: Inside the Sting That Hijacked an...

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2018/03/09

For anyone who has watched the last few years of cat-and-mouse games on the dark web's black markets, the pattern is familiar: A contraband bazaar like the Silk Road attracts thousands of drug dealers and their customers, along with intense scrutiny from police and three-letter agencies. Authorities hunt down its administrators, and tear the site offline in a dramatic takedown—only to find that its buyers and sellers have simply migrated to the next dark-web market on their list. Learn more about

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8:16

The Leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World

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2018/03/08

An elite Russian hacking team, a historic ransomware attack, an espionage group in the Middle East, and countless small time cryptojackers all have one thing in common. Though their methods and objectives vary, they all lean on leaked NSA hacking tool EternalBlue to infiltrate target computers and spread malware across networks. Leaked to the public not quite a year ago, EternalBlue has joined a long line of reliable hacker favorites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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10:46

Spy v. Spy: An NSA Leak Reveals the Agency's List of...

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2018/03/07

When the still-unidentified group calling itself the Shadow Brokers spilled a collection of NSA tools onto the internet in a series of leaks starting in 2016, they offered a rare glimpse into the internal operations of the the world's most advanced and stealthy hackers. But those leaks haven't just let the outside world see into the NSA's secret capabilities. They might also let us see the rest of the world's hackers through the NSA's eyes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:58

In US v. Microsoft, a Decades-Old Law Leaves Few Good...

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2018/03/07

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Microsoft, a case that many observers believe could have significant ramifications for how cloud computing and other technology companies interact with the US government. If it were up to the justices themselves, however, those implications would end up being short-lived. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:12

Uber 'Surprised' by Totally Unsurprising Pennsylvania...

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2018/03/06

Uber faces more potential legal consequences for waiting to make public a major hack until a over a year after it happened. The Pennsylvania Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Uber Monday for violating the state's data breach notification law, which says hacks should be disclosed within a "reasonable" time frame. Uber didn't merely keep quiet about the massive breach; it reportedly paid a $100,000 ransom to the perpetrators in exchange for their silence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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7:29

Security News This Week: Equifax Found 2.4 Million...

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2018/03/06

It was a wild west week in security, as GitHub succeeded in surviving the biggest DDoS attack ever (1.35 terabits per second!) and analysts scrutinized the "false flag" techniques Russian hackers have used in their attacks to shift blame and throw off investigators. Researchers found an unexpected method for executing phishing attacks against some "unphishable" Yubikey two-factor authentication tokens. (Not the one included in WIRED's subscription package. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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9:51

Facebook Doesn't Know How Many People Followed...

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2018/03/05

For more than a year, Jonathan Albright has served as something of a one-man General Accounting Office for the tech industry. The researcher at Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalism has dug into the details on how political Twitter trolls manipulate the media, and unearthed an intricate web of conspiracy theory videos on YouTube. Last weekend, while digging through Facebook’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee from last fall, something else caught his eye. Learn more about

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10:33

Covert 'Replay Sessions' Have Been Harvesting...

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2018/03/05

Yes, websites track your behavior online. But some go much further than what you'd reasonably expect, using so-called session replays to create a detailed log of everything you do and type on a site. And new research shows that in some cases these movie-like recordings are even storing your passwords. Bulk data collection is always a privacy red flag. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:37

Chrome Lets Hackers Phish Even 'Unphishable' Yubikey...

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2018/03/02

There's no better way to protect yourself from the universal scourge of phishing attacks than with a hardware token like a Yubikey, which stymies attackers even if you accidentally hand them your username and password. But while Yubikey manufacturer Yubico describes its product as "unphishable," a pair of researchers has proven the company wrong, with a technique that allows clever phishers to sidestep even Yubico's last bastion of login protection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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8:42

GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded

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2018/03/02

On Wednesday, at about 12:15pm ET, 1.35 terabits per second of traffic hit the developer platform GitHub all at once. It was the most powerful distributed denial of service attack recorded to date—and it used an increasingly popular DDoS method, no botnet required. GitHub briefly struggled with intermittent outages as a digital system assessed the situation. Within 10 minutes it had automatically called for help from its DDoS mitigation service, Akamai Prolexic. Learn more about your ad choices

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6:39

How to Turn Off Facebook's Face Recognition Features

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2018/03/01

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10:26

Microsoft's Supreme Court Case Has Big Implications...

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2018/03/01

Five years ago, US law enforcement served Microsoft a search warrant for emails as part of a US drug trafficking investigation. In response, Microsoft handed over data stored on American servers, like the person’s address book. But it didn’t give the government the actual content of the individual’s emails, because they were stored at a Microsoft data center in Dublin, Ireland, where the subject said he lived when he signed up for his Outlook account. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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11:27

5 Key Takeaways From the Democratic Rebuttal Memo

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2018/02/28

Three weeks ago, House Republicans publicly released a much-hyped memo written by representative Devin Nunes of California. It alleged, through a series of allusions, tangential facts, and seeming misdirections, that law enforcement officials had abused their power in obtaining a surveillance warrant against former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. Now, in a 10-page memo of their own, House Democrats are attempting to set the record straight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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