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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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