Feds: Iranian hackers compromised more than 8,000 academic email accounts
The Justice Department released an indictment Friday accusing nine Iranians of taking part in a massive hacking campaign targeting hundreds of universities around the world, as well as 30 U.S....
View ArticleHere’s how to see if Facebook knows who you’ve called and texted
If you’re using Facebook’s Messenger app today, it may have asked you for permission to track “your call and text history” to help “friends find each other on Facebook.” But Ars Technica reports that...
View ArticleDid police use an anti-drone gun at the Commonwealth Games? Not exactly
Australian police officers detected a drone flying near the Commonwealth Games Athletes Village in Gold Coast, Queensland, on Sunday. And, according to a number of reports, they used a device called a...
View ArticleExclusive: Facebook’s leadership sinks over 20 points in corporate...
Facebook’s reputation has fallen dramatically over the past few months, as the company grapples with scandals involving unauthorized data use by Cambridge Analytica, according to new data from The...
View ArticleWhy You Could Soon Be Voting In A Blockchain-Powered Election
Representatives served as international observers in the country’s election, but some felt they exaggerated their role for their own benefit. Could blockchain technology be the key to ensuring the...
View ArticleBefore Social Media, Hate Speech And Propaganda Spread By Phone
“Dial-a-hate” lines drew condemnation and stirred debate in the 1960s and 1970s, decades before social media. Attracting fans from the far right and simply the curious, their messages condemned...
View ArticleCan New Forensic Tech Win War On AI-Generated Fake Images?
As AI makes video manipulation easier, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency scientists race to develop tools to detect what’s real and what’s not. For gun lovers, the image was red meat: A...
View ArticleTwitter bots are getting busy making sure your tweet goes viral
About two-thirds of tweeted links to popular websites are posted by bots, not actual humans, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center. For adult sites, that number rises to 90%, and for...
View ArticleIt’s surprisingly easy to make government records public on Google Books
While working on a recent story about hate speech spread by telephone in the ’60s and ’70s, I came across an interesting book that had been digitized by Google Books. Unfortunately, while it was a...
View ArticleAs rivals seek to fend off Amazon, the Pentagon tweaks its cloud deal
The Defense Department has revised a request for proposals for a potential $10 billion cloud-computing deal to modernize Pentagon IT systems. The move comes as rivals like Oracle and IBM hope to get at...
View ArticleFacebook login is letting hidden online trackers slurp up your data
Third-party tracking code, used across the internet to track user behaviors on websites, optimize ads and other purposes, has been grabbing Facebook user information on websites that support logging in...
View ArticleCourt: Gun classified ad site can be sued over mass shooting
A Wisconsin appellate court ruled Thursday that Armslist, an online classified ad site specializing in firearms, can be sued in connection with a 2012 mass shooting at a Brookfield, Wisconsin, beauty...
View ArticleHacker Group Is Targeting Healthcare For Corporate Espionage, Symantec Warns
The group, which Symantec has dubbed Orangeworm, has deployed custom malware on networks of healthcare providers and related organizations. A new group of hackers is targeting systems tied to the...
View ArticleTrump dials up cell use as mystery phone spy devices spotted around D.C.
President Trump is using his personal cellphone more heavily lately to contact friends and informal advisors outside the White House, according to CNN, raising fresh doubts about White House Chief of...
View ArticleHow the ethereum blockchain saved this China #MeToo letter from censorship
An open letter from a Chinese student activist that had been censored after going viral on social media in China has been published in a harder-to-erase spot: the ethereum blockchain. “Now her message...
View ArticleResearchers say they tricked Alexa into spying on them
Researchers at security firm Checkmarx say they built a proof-of-concept skill for Amazon’s Echo devices that in theory could have voice assistant Alexa listen to, transcribe, and report what users...
View ArticleThe unusual way police caught the Golden State Killer suspect
Police reportedly used data from GEDMatch, a genealogy research site where users upload genealogical and genetic information, to help identify the man suspected of being the notorious Golden State...
View ArticleThe Tracker Tax: How Pervasive Web Code Steals Your Privacy And Time
Web pages are on average twice as slow to load when their tracking software isn’t blocked, says a new study by Ghostery. Online tracking code, sometimes recording web users’ every move, is present on...
View ArticleHere’s How Instagram Will Use AI To Take On Its Bullying Problem
With new machine-learning tools, the social network says it will automatically detect and filter out insulting, racist, and other bullying comments at scale. Instagram is rolling out a...
View ArticleWire Wants To Be Your Emergency Messaging Tool If You Get Hacked
When hackers or malware take down corporate networks and cloud services, Wire wants to offer a secure communications alternative to keep things running. We’ve seen this scenario before and, no doubt,...
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