Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell asked Christine Blasey Ford about WhatsApp messages she exchanged with the Washington Post.
Prosecutor Rachel Mitchell, asking Christine Blasey Ford questions on behalf of Republican members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee today, brought up a range of topics beyond the moments of the alleged sexual assault on Ford by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Phone numbers uploaded by users for security purposes or from others’ contact lists could be used to target ads, in a possible violation of EU privacy law.
If you provide your phone number to Facebook to secure your account with two-factor authentication, or someone you know uploads your number as part of their cell-phone contact list, advertisers can use that number to target you with ads, researchers have found.
Multiple sources point to the controversial judge’s nomination as a hot topic for Russian social media campaigns.
With the Senate Judiciary Committee voting on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court, the controversial federal judge is getting support from Russia-linked Twitter disinformation campaigns, writes researcher Jonathon Morgan on Twitter.
The city plans to invest about $30 million, combined with $70 million in private funding.
New York City wants to be a global center for the cybersecurity industry.
Data breaches can make us feel helpless, but there are things you can do to protect your online accounts.
Since Facebook reported last week that hackers had stolen access tokens to almost 50 million accounts, there have been no signs that the perpetrators leaked any user data online or published content on the site without permission.
Researchers have trained computers to detect politically biased sites and those that push less-than-factual stories partly by focusing on emotional language and shorter Wikipedia entries.
Thanks to social media, it’s easy to come across reporting from unfamiliar news sources around the world. But it can often be difficult to tell which sites are presenting the straight truth, which have a political bias, and which are spreading outright lies.
A hard-to-find book by Brett Kavanaugh’s high school friend Mark Judge has appeared online.
Copies of Mark Judge’s out-of-print memoir, Wasted: Tales of a Gen-X Drunk, are listed on Amazon for $150 and more, but the book by Brett Kavanaugh’s high school friend is now available on the Internet Archive.
Internet domain lookups are typically unencrypted, meaning hackers and governments can manipulate them to block certain sites or serve up malware.
Before you can access most websites, your computer needs to turn their written domain names—something like www.example.com—into a numerical IP address.
Fortnite players have been targeted by data-stealing malware scams, warns security firm Malwarebytes.
Fortnite players looking for ways to cheat at the mega-popular online game are being targeted by scammers pushing malware downloads, reports security firm Malwarebytes.
Whatever devices you use, beware of any callers claiming you have security issues on your computer or cloud accounts.
If you get a call from someone claiming to be from Apple warning you about a security issue with your Mac, iPhone, or iCloud account, it’s almost certainly a scam. The company tells customers: “If you get an unsolicited call from someone claiming to be from Apple, hang up and contact us directly.”
As prison tech vendors Securus and GTL roll out tablets and video conferencing, controversy is erupting over plans to use the devices to replace postal mail, physical books, and even in-person visits.
Prisons aren’t usually thought of as high-tech environments, but increasingly, when U.S. inmates connect with the outside world, they’re doing so through a digital screen. Vendors are offering tablets, e-readers, and even video-conferencing technology to replace books, physical mail, and even in-person visits at prisons throughout the country. The companies cite convenience and a need to curb the smuggling of contraband, but critics raise concerns that such technologies further distance inmates from real human contact and could inhibit their rehabilitation.
Turkey says it has recordings proving that Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the Washington Post reports.
Turkish officials have told U.S. officials that they have audio recordings and visual evidence that proves Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, the Post reports.
Facebook released more information about what the hackers saw.
The hackers behind a recent attack on Facebook gained access to information of about 29 million people, the company said Friday, and that’s just the beginning.
President Trump says cheap mail-order electronics are being unfairly subsidized by low postal rates from China to the United States.
The Trump administration is moving to pull out of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), a 144-year-old international treaty organization that sets rates for sending mail between different countries.
Russia’s divisive tweets were more effective than Iranian propaganda posts, according to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab.
On Wednesday, Twitter released a collection of more than 10 million tweets related to thousands of accounts affiliated with Russia’s Internet Research Agency propaganda outfit, as well as hundreds more troll accounts, including many based in Iran.
Saudi Arabia has emerged as a major investor in the tech industry in recent years, and Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman met with Jeff Bezos in March.
The disappearance of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi has led to a number of tech companies, as well as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, pulling out of a Saudi Public Investment Fund conference scheduled for later this month. And several (including Sam Altman, president of Y Combinator, and Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Alphabet unit Sidewalk Labs) have cut ties to the Saudi Arabia’s Neom smart city project after being named as advisors, CNBC reports.
Apple has insisted there’s no truth to the report that Chinese spies installed espionage hardware in its servers
Apple CEO Tim Cook has called upon Bloomberg Businessweek to retract a report that Chinese spies installed tiny microchips designed for espionage on server motherboards sent to the company, BuzzFeed News reports.
The Russians allegedly sought to further divide Americans around issues like race and immigration.
In a federal criminal complaint unsealed on Friday, a Russian national named Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova was charged in relation to an online influence campaign that targeted U.S. elections, including the 2016 presidential election, this year’s midterms, and even the 2020 vote.
A new policy would hold that sex is determined at or before birth by genetics and bodily characteristics.
The Trump administration is considering new policies that would legally define people’s genders to be either male or female as noted on their birth certificates, unless their DNA says otherwise, the New York Times reports. The proposed changes are part of a pattern of anti-transgender policies embraced by the administration, and are perhaps the harshest yet.
Both moves seem to reflect the contrarian spirit of the open source world.
Linus Torvalds is apparently back at the helm of the Linux operating system he created in the early 1990s, after taking roughly a month off after complaints about his brusque, often vulgar communications style.