Recently uncovered two huge processor vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre have taken the whole world by storm, while vendors are rushing out to patch the vulnerabilities in its products. The issues apply to all modern processors and affect nearly all operating systems (Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, FreeBSD, and more), smartphones and other computing devices […]
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NSA’s Rogers to Retire this Spring…
NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers has decided he will retire this spring, two former U.S. intelligence officials told POLITICO, ending a near four-year tenure bookended by major leaks that rattled the agency. It’s expected that President Donald Trump will nominate Rogers’ successor this month, putting a final Senate confirmation vote two to three months away. […]
NSA Contractor Stole 50 Terabytes of Information Over 20 Years…
A former NSA contractor is expected to plead guilty in what officials say may be the largest heist of intelligence data in U.S. history. On Wednesday, attorneys for Navy veteran Harold Martin filed a guilty plea to one count of willful retention of national defense information. Martin was arrested in august of 2016 when law […]
Trump’s Attorneys Make Case for Freeing Julian Assange in Legal Filing…
President Donald Trump’s attorneys made a solid case for preemptively pardoning Julian Assange in a motion to dismiss a WikiLeaks-related lawsuit against the Trump campaign. The motion, filed on December 29, was in response to a lawsuit by two Democratic Party donors who allege that the Trump campaign and former adviser Roger Stone conspired with […]
Trump Draws Attention to Case Against Former Dem IT Aide Imran Awan…
President Trump is drawing attention to the mysterious federal court case against Imran Awan, the former IT aide to a number of congressional Democrats, including former Democratic National Committee chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. “Whatever happened to this Pakistani guy who worked with the DNC?” the president asked in an interview published Thursday by the New […]
The Birth of an Emoji: The Surprisingly Complex Process of Getting a Smiling Pile of Poop on Your Phone Revealed…
We have a smiling pile of poop. What about one that’s sad? There’s loaf of bread and a croissant. But where’s the sliced bagel? How can our emotional vocabulary be complete without a teddy bear, a lobster, a petri dish or a tooth? These are the kind of questions that trigger heated debates and verbal […]
Chrome to Begin Blocking Ads in February…
Google yesterday announced that it will start blocking ads in its Chrome browser on Feb. 15. Websites that want to avoid the Chrome hammer can either shed several broad categories of online ads or pay a consortium of advertisers, advertising trade associations and technology companies, including Google, Microsoft and Facebook, to become “certified.” “Starting on […]
10 Times the Intel Community Violated the Trust of U.S. Citizens, Lawmakers and Allies by Sharyl Attkisson…
No matter where you stand politically, a growing body of facts raises the question: Is there systemic corruption or misfeasance at work inside America’s intelligence agencies? By that, I don’t mean people stealing money. I mean officials who are stealing our privacy — using the tools of intelligence-gathering and law-enforcing, which are meant to protect […]
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Now That The FCC Is Doing Away with Title II for Broadband, Will Verizon Give Back the Taxpayer Subsidies it Got Under Title II?…
Now that the FCC has done as it said it was going to do and declared that broadband internet is properly classified under Title I of the Communications Act, rather than Title II, I’m left wondering if taxpayers will be getting back all the subsidies that we provided Verizon, AT&T and others when they claimed […]
Edward Snowden’s New App Uses Your Smartphone to Physically Guard Your Laptop…
Like many other journalists, activists, and software developers I know, I carry my laptop everywhere while I’m traveling. It contains sensitive information; messaging app conversations, email, password databases, encryption keys, unreleased work, web browsers logged into various accounts, and so on. My disk is encrypted, but all it takes to bypass this protection is for […]
Apple Sued After it Admits to Intentionally Slowing Down Older iPhones…
Apple is being sued after it admitted to slowing down older iPhone models to keep them running longer. On Wednesday, the U.S. technology giant said that it has algorithms in place to help keep an iPhone running at optimal performance if there is an older battery inside that can’t keep up with the required power. […]
Sen Paul Freezes Trump Nomination Over Section 702 Surveillance…
Sen. Rand Paul is holding up the confirmation of a key national security official over concerns about a government surveillance program, an administration official confirmed to The Daily Beast. He has temporarily blocked John Demers –– currently Boeing’s assistant general counsel –– from being confirmed as Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s powerful National […]
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SpaceX Rocket Launch Spooks Californians…
A flash of bright light over Palm Springs had social media buzzing Friday evening, but don’t fret, it’s not an alien attack. All indications are that the light is coming from the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Santa Barbara. Many in the desert took […]
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads…
A few weeks ago, Verizon placed an ad on Facebook to recruit applicants for a unit focused on financial planning and analysis. The ad showed a smiling, millennial-aged woman seated at a computer and promised that new hires could look forward to a rewarding career in which they would be “more than just a number.” […]
Decoding 702: What is Section 702?…
Why can the U.S. government collect my emails? Under authority ostensibly granted by something called Section 702, the U.S. government routinely collects and searches the online communications of innocent Americans without a warrant through what are commonly called “upstream” and “PRISM” (now called “downstream”) surveillance. Section 702 is a surveillance authority passed as part of […]
House GOP Plan for Separate Section 702 Law, ‘Dead for Now’…
House Republicans’ plans to vote on a stand-alone bill to renew a controversial surveillance authority are dead “for now,” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told reporters less than 24 hours after lawmakers scheduled a Rules Committee vote on the measure. GOP lawmakers will attempt to hash out stark divisions in a conference meeting […]
House IT Aides Ran Car Dealership With Markings Of A Nefarious Money Laundering Operation…
The used car dealership known as CIA never seemed like an ordinary car dealership, with inventory, staff and expenses. On its Facebook page, CIA’s “staff” were fake personalities such as “James Falls O’Brien,” whose photo was taken from a hairstyle model catalog, and “Jade Julia,” whose image came from a web page called “Beautiful Girls […]
White House Claims Kim Jong Un Behind Massive WannaCry Malware Attack…
White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert said Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the release of WannaCry, the malware attack that spread rapidly throughout hundreds of thousands of computers in 150 countries during a single week in May. “We do not make this allegation lightly. We do this with evidence. We […]
Big Brother Is Watching? New Facebook Facial Recognition Spots You Even If You’re Not Tagged…
The world’s largest social network has just rolled out a new feature of its facial recognition technology that will notify users when someone has uploaded a photo of them even if they haven’t been tagged in it on Facebook. The new feature sprang into action Tuesday. Facebook says it will “help people better manage their […]
Harlem Shook: Google Is Using Its Immense Power to Censor Content That Doesn’t Fit Its Political Goals. Everyone in America Should Be Concerned About That…
The Daily Caller released a funny video Tuesday of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai defending the commission’s upcoming net neutrality rollback. Through Wednesday and Thursday, liberals and others who dislike Pai’s political position lost their minds. And by Friday morning, Google, one of the most powerful companies on the planet, had censored the video based on […]
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