Multiple members of Congress hired as their information technology (IT) administrator an individual whose most recent job experience was being fired from McDonald’s, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned. Spokesmen for the members won’t say what their bosses knew at the time, but the hiring decisions highlight the role — witting or […]
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Petya Ransomware Spreading Rapidly Worldwide, Just Like WannaCry…
Watch out, readers! It is ransomware, another WannaCry, another wide-spread attack. The WannaCry ransomware is not dead yet and another large scale ransomware attack is making chaos worldwide, shutting down computers at corporates, power supplies, and banks across Russia, Ukraine, Spain, France, UK, India, and Europe and demanding $300 in bitcoins…
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REPORT: Prior to Snowden, NSA Had No Clue How Many Were Approved to Download Top Secret Info…
The National Security Agency did not know how many officials were authorized to download and transfer top secret data from its servers prior to the high-profile leaks by former contractor Edward Snowden, according to a recently declassified government report. The NSA was also unsuccessful in attempts to meaningfully cut the number of officials with “privileged” […]
Private Investigators: Seth Rich Murder Evidence Vanishing…
Several online accounts belonging to murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich have been deleted in recent weeks, according to team of private, nonpartisan investigators working on the case. Attorney and lobbyist Jack Burkman, who is funding the independent investigation, filed an emergency motion Wednesday to require police to “preserve, protect and properly organize the all-important online […]
Websites Found Collecting Data from Online Forms Even Before You Click Submit…
‘Do I really need to give this website so much about me?’ That’s exactly what I usually think after filling but before submitting a web form online asking for my personal details to continue. I am sure most of you would either close the whole tab or would edit already typed details (or filled up […]
No, WannaCry Is Not Dead! Hits Honda & Traffic Light Camera System…
It’s been over a month since the WannaCry ransomware caused chaos worldwide and people have started counting its name as ‘the things of past,’ but…WannaCry is not DEAD! The self-spreading ransomware is still alive and is working absolutely fine. The latest victims of WannaCry are Honda Motor Company and 55 speed and traffic light cameras […]
REPORT: WikiLeaks Disclosures on Iraq, Afghanistan Did Not Damage U.S….
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, providing access to classified intelligence, military and diplomatic documents, has been making headlines since its creation. The US government was hunting and prosecuting whistleblowers, saying the leaks pose a huge threat to national security. But it turns out that the leaked data, specifically on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, was not […]
Independent Group Releases New Report on Seth Rich Murder Investigation…
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 […]
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 […]
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