Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose office equipment U.S. Capitol Police seized in a criminal investigation into congressional network security violations, admitted she violates official information security policy and blamed the House’s chief administrative officer for not stopping her. In a May 17 appropriations hearing on Congress’ administrative budget, Wasserman Shultz said she had […]
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#Vault7: CIA’s ‘Pandemic’ Turns File Servers into ‘Patient Zero’…
The latest WikiLeaks ‘Vault7’ release details an alleged CIA project allowing the spy agency to give file servers the capability to infect machines which access them remotely. ‘Pandemic’ reveals the role of a persistent implant for Microsoft Windows file servers, accessed by remote machines to run programs, according to a statement from WikiLeaks. The project […]
Pulse Nightclub Body Cam Video Sheds New Light on Shooting…
New Pulse nightclub footage shows the response through police officers’ eyes — from initial confusion to shock as they began to understand the scope of the attack that killed 49 people. More than 30 videos offer the most complete picture of what happened during the three-hour standoff. In the body camera video released this week […]
NASA’s First Close-Up of Jupiter Is Shocking and Surprising Everyone on Earth…
The first NASA mission to get a closer look at Jupiter just revealed the planet looks drastically different than researchers thought. NASA’s Juno spacecraft launched in August 2011, took five years to reach Jupiter and has been orbiting around the gas giant gathering data ever since. While it was believed Jupiter was uniform inside and […]
Reuters/Washington Post Publish Evidence of Obama Spying on Trump Campaign and Unmasking Americans…
Reuters/Washington Post Puts a Slice of Kushner Cheese on Russian Nothingburger and simultaneously prove the Obama Administration was spying on the Trump campaign. The extent of the U.S. media’s straw-grasping is boundless, but this one is going to backfire. HOPEFULLY. For the most recent example consider the Washington Post and Reuters claiming President Trump’s son-in-law […]
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Russian Bank Owners Sue BuzzFeed over Trump Dossier Publication…
he owners of a Russian bank are suing BuzzFeed for publishing a dossier containing unproven claims that the businessmen were involved in bribing Russian President Vladimir Putin years ago and took part in an alleged Russian government scheme to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan of Alfa Bank […]
Ecuador’s New President Won’t Evict Wikileaks ‘Hacker’ Assange…
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s eviction from Ecuador’s embassy in London now looks unlikely after the country’s new president Lenin Moreno said he could remain in the diplomatic building. The Wikileaks founder has been holed up there for the past five years after applying for asylum in Ecuador to avoid arrest in connection with sexual assault […]
Lawmaker Demands Trump Admin Hand Over Unredacted Report On Phishing Email Attacks…
A House committee asked the Interior Department Thursday to hand over an unredacted copy of a newly-released report detailing how more than 100 employees were “compromised” in a phishing email attack. Utah Republican Rep. Rob Bishop, chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, sent a letter to Interior Deputy Inspector General Mary Kendall asking […]
GOP Lawmaker Suggests Seth Rich Murder ‘Should be part of the ongoing investigation into alleged Russian interference’…
“My fear is our constant focusing on the Russians is deflecting away for some other things that we need to be investigating,” Farenthold said on the network. “There’s still some question as to whether the intrusion of the DNC server was an insider job or whether or not it was the Russians.”Later Wednesday, Farenthold elaborated…The […]
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Major U.S. Tech Firms Press Congress for Internet Surveillance Reforms…
Facebook, Amazon and more than two dozen other U.S. technology companies pressed Congress on Friday to make changes to a broad internet surveillance law, saying they were necessary to improve privacy protections and increase government transparency. The request marks the first significant public effort by Silicon Valley to wade into what is expected to be […]
Declassified Memos Show FBI Illegally Shared Spy Data on Americans with Private Parties…
The FBI has illegally shared raw intelligence about Americans with unauthorized third parties and violated other constitutional privacy protections, according to newly declassified government documents that undercut the bureau’s public assurances about how carefully it handles warrantless spy data to avoid abuses or leaks. In his final congressional testimony before he was fired by President […]
Introducing the Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized Internet…
The internet is broken. It has been for a while. Even the fathers of the internet, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Vint Cerf, say that it’s broken. We realize you are probably reading this on the internet, and it seems to be working just fine. So how exactly is the internet broken? Imagine a world where […]
A Federal Appeals Court Cleared the Way for a Lawsuit Against NSA’s Surveillance Practices…
A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency’s collection of emails, texts and other online communications that privacy experts have long argued violates constitutional protections of Americans’ privacy. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond on Tuesday reversed a lower court decision and declared […]
“Yahoobleed” Flaw Leaked Private Email Attachments and Credentials…
For years, Yahoo Mail has exposed a wealth of private user data because it failed to update widely used image-processing software that contained critical vulnerabilities. That’s according to a security researcher who warned that other popular services are also likely to be leaking sensitive subscriber secrets. Chris Evans, the researcher who discovered the vulnerabilities and […]
Instagram Is the Most Harmful Social Network for Your Mental Health…
Our addictive feeds of fitness models, exotic travel, and photo-perfect moments don’t often match with our comparatively humdrum and badly lit lives. The discontent caused by that disconnect is enough that a growing body of research suggests social media is contributing to mental-health problems such as anxiety, depression, sleep deprivation, and body-image issues in young […]
Cable Industry Lobbyists Write Republican Talking Points on Net Neutrality…
Following the vote last week by the Federal Communication Commission to unwind the net neutrality rules enacted during the Obama administration, House Republican lawmakers received an email from GOP leadership on how to defend the decision. The email was shared with The Intercept and the Center for Media and Democracy. Net neutrality is the principle […]
Obama Intel Agency Secretly Conducted Illegal Searches on Americans for Years…
The National Security Agency under former President Barack Obama routinely violated American privacy protections while scouring through overseas intercepts and failed to disclose the extent of the problems until the final days before Donald Trump was elected president last fall, according to once top-secret documents that chronicle some of the most serious constitutional abuses to […]
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Google Starts Tracking Your Offline Shopping–What You Buy at Stores in Person…
Google already monitors your online shopping — but now it’s also keeping an eye on what you’re buying in real-world stores as part of its latest effort to sell more digital advertising. The offline tracking scans most credit and debit card transactions to help Google automatically inform merchants when their digital ads translate into sales […]
If You Care About Privacy, You Should Change Your Twitter Settings Right Now…
Since Wednesday, Twitter has been sending out emails and notifications to its over 300 million monthly users to inform them of changes to their privacy policy. The new policy, which goes into effect on June 18, includes changes to data collection, data sharing, and digital advertising. The policy is being run on an ‘opt-out’ basis, […]
Kim Dotcom Releases Statement on Seth Rich and What He Knows…
“#Seth Rich was a hero. I know this because in late 2014 a person contacted me about helping me to start a branch of the Internet Party in the United States. He called himself Panda. I now know that Panda was Seth Rich. Panda advised me that he was working on voter analytics tools and […]
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