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Harvard Rescinds Acceptances for At Least Ten Students for Obscene Memes…
Harvard College rescinded admissions offers to at least ten prospective members of the Class of 2021 after the students traded sexually explicit memes and messages that sometimes targeted minority groups in a private Facebook group chat. A handful of admitted students formed the messaging group—titled, at one point, “Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens”—on Facebook […]
Over 8,600 Vulnerabilities Found in Pacemakers…
“If you want to keep living, Pay a ransom, or die.” This could happen, as researchers have found thousands of vulnerabilities in Pacemakers that hackers could exploit. Millions of people that rely on pacemakers to keep their hearts beating are at risk of software glitches and hackers, which could eventually take their lives. A pacemaker […]
WannaCry Coding Mistakes Can Help Files Recovery Even After Infection…
Last month WannaCry ransomware hit more than 300,000 PCs across the world within just 72 hours by using its self-spreading capabilities to infect vulnerable Windows PCs, particularly those using vulnerable versions of the OS, within the same network. But that doesn’t mean WannaCry was a high-quality piece of ransomware. Security researchers have recently discovered some […]
He Didn’t Give Police His iPhone Pass Code, So He Got 180 Days in Jail…
A Hollywood man must serve 180 days in jail for refusing to give up his iPhone password to police, a Broward judge ruled Tuesday — the latest salvo in intensifying legal battles over law-enforcement access to smart phones. Christopher Wheeler, 41, was taken into custody in a Broward Circuit Court, insisting he had already provided […]
Leaked Documents Reveal Counterterrorism Tactics Used at Standing Rock to “Defeat Pipeline Insurgencies”…
A shadowy international mercenary and security firm known as TigerSwan targeted the movement opposed to the Dakota Access Pipeline with military-style counterterrorism measures, collaborating closely with police in at least five states, according to internal documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first detailed picture of how TigerSwan, which originated as a U.S. […]
CONNECTION?: Burglar Stole Guns Off Nearby FBI Vehicle Hours Before Seth Rich Murder…
A burglar broke into an FBI vehicle and stole weapons – including a .40 caliber Glock-22 handgun and a Rock River Arms Rifle – hours before DNC staffer Seth Rich was shot multiple times just two miles north of the weapons theft. Now a private investigator is suing the Metropolitan Police Department for ballistics reports […]
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Wasserman Schultz Admits Hill IT Security Violations, Blames House Administrators for Not Stopping Her (VIDEO)…
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 […]
#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 […]
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