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9:30

Amino Apps Makes the Case for Anonymity Online

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2018/02/13

Over the last several years, a number of social media and dating platforms have begun emphasizing users’ real names. Facebook started requiring people sign up with their “authentic” names in 2014. Twitter invited anyone to apply to be “verified”—meaning Twitter certified they were who they claimed—in 2016. In December, OkCupid said it would no longer allow prospective daters to use names like “sexgirl_420. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:13

Security News This Week: An Apple Employee Leaked a...

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2018/02/13

This week may have been, perhaps, the closest thing the cybersecurity world can experience to a lull in the digital mayhem. With the exception of one very significant Apple leak—and we'll get to that—hackers kept their breaches, disruptions, and scams close to the baseline. At least, that we know of. One of the most significant news stories of the week was, in fact, a massive law enforcement takedown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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9:36

Snap Map Will Now Live Outside Snapchat

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2018/02/12

When Hurricane Harvey wreaked destruction in Houston last August, the country turned not just to cable television, but also to Snapchat. Two months before the storm, the social media app had debuted Snap Map, a crowdsourced, interactive feature that displays what’s happening on Snapchat around the world. At launch, Snap Map seemed mostly like a fun toy, albeit one with potential privacy implications; Snap Map can broadcast your location to your friends if you opt in. Learn more about your ad

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13:30

Time's Just About Up to Secure the 2018 Midterm...

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2018/02/12

It's been roughly two years since the first signs that Russia had launched an interference campaign aimed at the 2016 presidential race, and now the United States is hurtling toward a set of pivotal midterm elections in November. But while some states have made an earnest effort to secure the vote, the overall landscape looks troubling—and in some cases, it's too late to fix it this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:36

This AI Reads Privacy Policies So You Don't Have To

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2018/02/09

You don't read privacy policies. And of course, that's because they're not actually written for you, or any of the other billions of people who click to agree to their inscrutable legalese. Instead, like bad poetry and teenagers' diaries, those millions upon millions of words are produced for the benefit of their authors, not readers—the lawyers who wrote those get-out clauses to protect their Silicon Valley employers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:12

Feds Take Down a Half-Billion Dollar Cybercrime Forum...

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2018/02/09

With the rise and fall of dark web black markets like Alphabay and the Silk Road, law enforcement officials have repeatedly warned that even anonymity tools like Tor and cryptocurrencies won't hide criminals from the law's long reach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:44

Scammers Are Stealing Bitcoin on Twitter With a...

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2018/02/08

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12:13

Bob Mueller’s Investigation Is Larger—and Further...

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2018/02/06

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8:05

Security News This Week: 'AutoSploit' Tool Makes...

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2018/02/06

Another week, another death by a thousand leaks, from the operational security failure of fitness app Strava exposing the locations of military bases around the world to Russian hacker group Fancy Bear dropping the latest round of stolen documents from Olympics-related organizations. And then there was that other, congressionally orchestrated release of a certain classified memo, a highly politicized move whose importance security experts are still debating. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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13:10

Reading Between the Lines of the Devin Nunes Memo

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2018/02/05

After weeks of Twitter users demanding Congress #ReleaseTheMemo, the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Republican Devin Nunes, disclosed the contentious four-page report to the public Friday, after President Donald Trump signed off on its release. And while, as expected, the document alleges that federal law enforcement officials abused their surveillance powers in investigating the Trump campaign's ties to Russia, national security experts see something very different. Learn more about your

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22:08

Here’s What Happens If ‘Magnificent Bastard’ Mueller...

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2018/02/02

Bob Mueller is famously nonchalant amid life’s toughest moments. Much of that public calm stems from the fact that he’s a Magnificent Bastard and, specifically, the lessons of December 11, 1968. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:15

Hackers Have Already Targeted the Winter Olympics—And...

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2018/02/02

The Olympics have always been a geopolitical microcosm: beyond the athletic match-ups, they provide a vehicle for diplomacy and propaganda, and even, occasionally, a proxy for war. It stands to reason, then, that in 2018 they've also become a nexus of hacker skullduggery. The Olympics unfolding next week in Pyeongchang may already be the most thoroughly hacked in the games' history—with potentially more surprises to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:48

A Devastating ATM Hack Swept the World—And Finally...

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2018/02/01

In July 2016, ATM hackers in Taiwan raked in more than $2 million using a new type of malware attack that manipulated machines into spitting out tons of cash. The method, dubbed "jackpotting," quickly spread across parts of Asia, Europe, and Central America, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of stolen cash. By November 2016, the FBI issued a warning that "well-resourced and organized malicious cyber actors have intentions to target the US financial sector” using this approach. Learn more

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9:48

Cryptocurrency Scams Are Just Straight-Up Trolling at...

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2018/01/31

Facebook announced in a blog post Tuesday that it would ban cryptocurrency advertising from the platform entirely. The company said that many ads for cryptocurrency investment opportunities, like initial coin offerings, were “not currently operating in good faith.” Facebook has a point. Take Prodeum for example, a Lithuanian cryptocurrency startup that appeared online Thursday. By Monday, it was gone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:44

The Strava Heat Map and the End of Secrets

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2018/01/31

A modern equivalent of the World War II era warning that “loose lips sink ships” may be “FFS don’t share your Fitbit data on duty.” Over the weekend, researchers and journalists raised the alarm about how anyone can identify secretive military bases and patrol routes based on public data shared by a “social network for athletes” called Strava. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:46

Look Out: Chrome Extension Malware Has Evolved

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2018/01/30

You already know to be wary of third-party Android apps, and even to watch your back in the Google Play Store. A flashlight app with only 12 reviews might be hiding some malware as well. But your hyper-vigilant download habits should extend beyond your smartphone. You need to keep an eye on your desktop Chrome extensions as well. These handy little applets give you seamless access to services like Evernote or password managers, or put your Bitmoji just a click away. Learn more about your ad choices

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5:32

Security News This Week: Dutch Spies Snooped on...

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2018/01/29

This week’s security news featured a healthy blend of politics, hacks, and the looming threat of apocalypse. What more could one hope for! The Doomsday Clock, which the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists uses to measure how close humanity sits to its own destruction, ticked 30 seconds closer to midnight this week. We’re now at two minutes to doom, the closest we’ve been in decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:21

Mueller's Team Has Interviewed Facebook Staff as Part...

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2018/01/29

The Department of Justice's special counsel Robert Mueller and his office have interviewed at least one member of Facebook's team that was associated with President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, according to a person familiar with the matter. The interview was part of Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and what role, if any, the Trump campaign played in that interference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:09

Your Sloppy Bitcoin Drug Deals Will Haunt You For Years

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2018/01/26

Perhaps you bought some illegal narcotics on the Silk Road half a decade ago, back when that digital black market for every contraband imaginable was still online and bustling. You might already regret that decision, for any number of reasons. After all, the four bitcoins you spent on that bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms would now be worth about as much as an Alfa Romeo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:58

The DNC’s New Chief Security Officer Knows All About...

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2018/01/26

The Democratic National Committee has hired Bob Lord, most recently Yahoo's head of information security, to be its chief security officer—a brand new position, created in the aftermath of the historic hack by Russian operatives of the DNC's servers during the 2016 presidential campaign. This is Lord's first foray into the world of politics, having spent his career in Silicon Valley working at companies like Twitter, AOL, and Netscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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