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12:45

Closer to Midnight: The Doomsday Clock and the Threat...

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2018/01/25

The accidental missile alert in Hawaii earlier this month made real for 38 terrifying minutes the vague, low-level dread that permeates American life today: Nuclear war seems closer and more real than it has in a generation. Even the pope—not exactly a fear-monger—said last week that the world now stood at “the very limit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:31

The Cynical Misdirection Behind #ReleaseTheMemo

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2018/01/25

“EXCLUSIVE: Infowars has obtained and is now releasing the secret FISA memo,” conspiracy theorist Alex Jones blared on Twitter Tuesday. Jones thought he had a mysterious four-page document authored by Republican Congressman Devin Nunes, who leads the House Intelligence Committee. The memo purportedly proves that intelligence officials abused surveillance powers authorized under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in investigating Trump’s campaign ties to Russia. Learn more about your ad

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7:49

Meltdown and Spectre Patching Has Been a Total Train...

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2018/01/24

The Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, first revealed at the beginning of the year, affect pretty much anything with a chip in it. That ubiquity has made the process of releasing patches understandably arduous. Every type of impacted hardware and software requires its own specially tailored solution, and even a fix that works as intended may slow down system processes as a side effect. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:39

Tinder's Lack of Encryption Lets Strangers Spy on...

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2018/01/23

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8:13

Pixek App Encrypts Your Photos From Camera to Cloud

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2018/01/23

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9:53

Android Users: To Avoid Malware, Ditch Google’s App...

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2018/01/22

In the early days of Android, co-founder Andy Rubin set the stage for the fledgling mobile operating system. Android’s mission was to create smarter mobile devices, ones that were more aware of their owner’s behavior and location.“If people are smart,” Rubin told Business Week in 2003, “that information starts getting aggregated into consumer products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:26

Security News This Week: Hacking Group's Mobile...

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2018/01/22

This week, Hawaii reeled after an emergency text alert about an impending nuclear missile attack triggered panic—and then turned out to be a false alarm. Researchers provided more details about the sophisticated Triton malware that targets industrial control systems and impacted a real-world plant last year. The anti-fascist far-left movement known as Antifa gets some of its intelligence from a computer scientist named Megan Squire, who disseminates valuable and controversial information. Learn more

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6:52

Menacing Malware Shows the Dangers of Industrial...

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2018/01/19

A recent digital attack on the control systems of an industrial plant has renewed concerns about the threat hacking poses to critical infrastructure. And while security researchers offered some analysis last month of the malware used in the attack, called Triton or Trisis, newly revealed details of how it works expose just how vulnerable industrial plants—and their failsafe mechanisms—could be to manipulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:33

A New Way to Track Down Bugs Could Help Save IoT

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2018/01/19

On a clear day this summer, security researcher Ang Cui boarded a boat headed to a government biosafety facility off the northeastern tip of Long Island. Cui's security company, Red Balloon, will spend the next year studying how its Internet of Things threat-scanning tool performs on the building control systems of Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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10:15

Crime-Predicting Algorithms May Not Fare Much Better...

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2018/01/18

The American criminal justice system couldn’t get much less fair. Across the country, some 1.5 million people are locked up in state and federal prisons. More than 600,000 people, the vast majority of whom have yet to be convicted of a crime, sit behind bars in local jails. Black people make up 40 percent of those incarcerated, despite accounting for just 13 percent of the US population. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:29

Tech Companies Are Complicit in Censoring Iran Protests

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2018/01/17

The world is witnessing the biggest protest movement in Iran since the 2009 Green Movement uprising. Over the last two weeks, there has been unrest in nearly every major Iranian city and dozens of smaller towns. Corruption, economic mismanagement, and neglect are the protesters’ primary grievances, though the chants quickly turned political. Predictably, the government has cracked down: More than 32 people have been killed and at least 3,700 have been detained since the protests began. Learn more

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8:39

Congress Renews Warrantless Surveillance—And Makes It...

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2018/01/17

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency was legally collecting millions of Americans’ phone calls and electronic communications—including emails, Facebook messages, and browsing histories—without a warrant. Congress has now decided not only to reauthorize these programs, but also to expand some of their most invasive techniques. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:37

The Astrophysicist Who Wants to Help Solve...

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2018/01/16

Vacant buildings have their own sort of gravitational pull. When a home gets boarded up on one block, you can almost bet another will follow nearby. Often, they pull whole neighborhoods into their orbit, driving down the local housing market in ever-expanding clusters. Which at least begins to explain why Baltimore has tapped Tamás Budavári, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, to study their patterns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:37

Security News This Week: Google Pulls 60 Malicious...

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2018/01/16

The fallout of the widespread Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities continued this week. WIRED took an in-depth look at the parallel sagas that caused four research teams to independently discover the bugs within months of each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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8:37

How Hawaii Could Have Sent a False Nuclear Alarm

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2018/01/15

As the citizens of Hawaii came out of hiding in their bathtubs and basements Saturday morning, after learning that the emergency alert they had received, warning of an imminent nuclear missile attack, was a false alarm, their fear and panic transformed into rage. "I'm extremely angry right now. People should lose their jobs if this was an error," Hawaii State Representative Matt Lopresti told CNN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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12:13

The Hidden Toll of Fixing Meltdown and Spectre

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2018/01/15

In the early days of 2018, the engineering team at the mobile services company Branch noticed slowdowns and errors with its Amazon Web Services cloud servers. An unexpected round of AWS server reboots in December had already struck Ian Chan, Branch's director of engineering, as odd. But the server slowdowns a few weeks later presented a more pressing concern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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7:47

A Clever Radio Trick Can Tell If a Drone Is Watching You

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2018/01/12

As flying, camera-wielding machines get ever cheaper and more ubiquitous, inventors of anti-drone technologies are marketing every possible idea for protection from hovering eyes in the sky: Drone-spotting radar. Drone-snagging shotgun shells. Anti-drone lasers, falcons, even drone-downing drones. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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5:47

Skype's Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption For...

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2018/01/12

Skype has more than 300 million monthly users, making it one of the most popular chat platforms in the world. Now, they'll all be able to benefit from a crucial privacy protection: Microsoft announced Thursday that Skype will offer end-to-end encryption for audio calls, text, and multimedia messages through a feature called Private Conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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6:37

Hack Brief: Russian Hackers Release Apparent IOC...

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2018/01/11

On Wednesday, in the wake of Russia's December ban from the 2018 Winter Olympics, a Russia-linked group calling itself "Fancy Bears" published a set of apparently stolen emails. They purportedly belong to officials from the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee, and third-party groups associated with the organizations. It's not the first time Russia has lashed out at the IOC and the anti-doping agencies in the last few years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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13:35

WhatsApp Security Flaws Could Allow Snoops to Slide...

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2018/01/11

When WhatsApp added end-to-end encryption to every conversation for its billion users two years ago, the mobile messaging giant significantly raised the bar for the privacy of digital communications worldwide. But one of the tricky elements of encryption—and even trickier in a group chat setting—has always been ensuring that a secure conversation reaches only the intended audience, rather than some impostor or infiltrator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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