DNC worker Seth Rich was murdered in the Bloomingdale neighborhood of D.C. 11 months ago and his killer is still on the loose. Now, a group of George Washington University graduate students calling themselves the Profiling Project are releasing a report on their own investigation into Rich’s murder. The Profiling Project doesn’t buy it. A […]
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Leaked Recording: Inside Apple’s Global War on Leakers…
A recording of an internal briefing at Apple earlier this month obtained by The Outline sheds new light on how far the most valuable company in the world will go to prevent leaks about new products. The briefing, titled “Stopping Leakers – Keeping Confidential at Apple,” was led by Director of Global Security David Rice, […]
President Trump Roundtable with the American Technology Council (VIDEO and Transcript)…
Earlier this evening President Trump participated in a roundtable with technology executives as part of an administration effort to bring the operational and organizational objectives of the federal government into the 21st century. The overall goal of the administration is to increase federal efficiency standards, reduce the size of government through elimination of bureaucratic waste, […]
Amazon Granted a Patent That Prevents In-Store Shoppers from Online Price Checking…
Amazon’s long been a go-to for people to online price compare while shopping at brick-and-mortars. Now, a new patent granted to the company could prevent people from doing just that inside Amazon’s own stores. The patent, titled “Physical Store Online Shopping Control,” details a mechanism where a retailer can intercept network requests like URLs and […]
Republican Data-Mining Firm Exposed Personal Information for Virtually Every American Voter…
The GOP’s 2016 presidential upset wasn’t surprising just because it put Donald Trump in the White House; it also proved the party had vastly improved its ability to exploit data, including precision ad targeting campaigns on Facebook. Now comes the fallout of all that information hoarding: A California-based security researcher says Republican-linked election databases were […]
Hospital Sends Legal Threats to Researcher, Then Asks for Her Help Identifying Breach Victims…
Shooting the messenger is the most popular response to reported data breach, making the job of security researcher far more dangerous than it should ever be. The twist in the latest “shoot the messenger” story is the shooter coming back around to ask the shooting victim for help. Bad idea. Even if the body is […]
WikiLeaks Releases CIAs ‘Cherry Blossom’ Project Docs: Shows CIA Has Been Hacking WiFi Routers For Years…
Today, June 15th 2017, WikiLeaks publishes documents from the CherryBlossom project of the CIA that was developed and implemented with the help of the US nonprofit Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). CherryBlossom provides a means of monitoring the Internet activity of and performing software exploits on Targets of interest. In particular, CherryBlossom is focused on […]
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak: Why Robots Won’t Be Taking Our Jobs for Hundreds of Years…
Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley tech icon Steve Wozniak isn’t worried that robots will leave us all unemployed, not in the foreseeable future, anyway. Yes, technology has made our lives more convenient than ever before, Wozniak says, speaking at the eMERGE conference in Miami, Fla., Monday. “We have built all this technology to take care […]
Verizon Completes Yahoo Acquisition…
Verizon on Tuesday completed its $4.5 billion purchase of Yahoo’s Internet assets, which basically means it bought all of Yahoo except for its equity holdings in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan…New names: Yahoo will be integrated into existing Verizon property AOL, which will operate as a new internal business called Oath. The remaining Yahoo asset structure […]
French Police Seize 6 Tor Relay Servers in WannaCry Investigation…
WannaCry, the biggest ransomware attack in the history, gained prominence very rapidly in the media globally after the ransomware infected more than 300,000 computers in over 150 countries within just 72 hours. Governments, Intelligence agencies and law enforcement around the world have already started their investigations and are working closely with affected companies to track […]
Meet Zerodium, the Company That Pays $1M for Apple Hacks…
Last year, Zerodium publicly offered $1 million for a powerful, new hack that would remotely sneak into an iPhone running Apple’s latest software. In November, the firm announced the winner — an unidentified team of hackers. Zerodium publicly offers up to $100,000 for Android and Windows Phone hacks. It’ll pay $80,000 for hacks that involve […]
Samsung’s ‘Peeping Tom’ Smartphones Can Listen and Watch What You Do on the Web While Also Monitoring Your Emails…
SAMSUNG phones use technology which can spy on what you’re reading and watching online – and monitor emails in your inbox. The phones switch onto spy mode after they are alerted by a “beacon” often embedded in web pages or sent as an ultrasonic signal hidden in telly or online adverts. After learning of the […]
Hey Intercept, Something is Very Wrong with Reality Winner and the NSA Leak…
An NSA document purporting to show Russian military hacker attempts to access a Florida company which makes voter registration software is sent anonymously to The Intercept. A low-level NSA contractor, Reality Winner, above, is arrested almost immediately. What’s wrong with this picture? A lot. Who Benefits? Start with the question of who benefits — cui […]
Be Careful Celebrating Google’s New Ad Blocker. Here’s What’s Really Going On…
Google, a data mining and extraction company that sells personal information to advertisers, has hit upon a neat idea to consolidate its already-dominant business: block competitors from appearing on its platforms. The company announced that it would establish an ad blocker for the Chrome web browser, which has become the most popular in America, employed […]
Czech ‘GyroDrive’ Beats Flying Cars for Hybrid License…
As global automakers compete to bring the first flying car to market, Czech pilot Pavel Brezina is trying a different tack: instead of creating a car that flies, he has made a “GyroDrive” — a mini helicopter you can drive. The engineer and owner of Nirvana Systems, a company producing motors for small flying machines, […]
Tech’s Social Conscience: Where Next?…
If tech is going to be a force for social good, Silicon Valley must take a hard look at itself and course correct. In an era of both increasing social divisions and unexpected alliances, the tech community must grapple with its ethical identity. How it takes action in support of the communities it so often […]
Rating the iOS 11 Updates: Your iPhone Is Getting a Refresh This Fall…
The Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference, which kicked off Monday, was one of those “in-between events” — the kind without a new iPhone. But the Apple product that most of us truly rely on — iOS — did receive a handful of updates. While there was nothing life-changing about the upcoming iOS 11 (which will hit iPhones and iPads this fall), the […]
Alleged NSA Leaker Met with Perdue Staff Months Before Arrest…
The Augusta federal contractor who was charged Monday with leaking top-secret information to the press met with members of U.S. Sen. David Perdue’s staff earlier this year, the Republican’s office confirmed. Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old contractor with Pluribus International Corporation, posted a selfie with her eyebrows raised outside of the first-term senator’s Atlanta office […]
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Hacked Emails Show Top UAE Diplomat Coordinating with Pro-Israel Think Tank Against Iran…
The email account of one of Washington’s most connected and influential foreign operatives has been hacked. A small tranche of those emails was sent this week to media outlets, including The Intercept, HuffPost and The Daily Beast, with the hacker promising to release a trove publicly. The hotmail account belongs to the UAE’s ambassador to […]
DOJ Arrests 25-Year-Old NSA Contractor Leaking Classified Intel…
The Department of Justice has arrested 25-year-old left-wing activist “Reality Leigh Winner“, aka “Reality Winner” aka “Sara Winner“, aka “Sara Winners“, for leaking classified NSA intelligence to online media The Intercept. Reality Leigh “Sara” Winner is a Georgia resident and an employee of NSA contractor Pluribus International Corp. She has held a top secret security […]
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