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 […]
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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 […]
Getting Assange: The Untold Story by John Pilger…
Julian Assange has been vindicated because the Swedish case against him was corrupt. The prosecutor, Marianne Ny, obstructed justice and should be prosecuted. Her obsession with Assange not only embarrassed her colleagues and the judiciary but exposed the Swedish state’s collusion with the United States in its crimes of war and “rendition”. Had Assange not […]
Hacker Ring Busted before Going Global after Stealing from Russian Bank Customers…
The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) has announced the arrest of a hacker group, which installed viruses on smartphones to steal money from customers’ bank accounts. To steal the money, the hackers used the SMS-banking system, with money transfers taking place without notification. The police did not specify which banks were involved but said […]
Facebook’s Internal Rulebook on Sex, Terrorism and Violence…
Facebook’s secret rules and guidelines for deciding what its 2 billion users can post on the site are revealed for the first time in a Guardian investigation that will fuel the global debate about the role and ethics of the social media giant. The Guardian has seen more than 100 internal training manuals, spreadsheets and […]
Occupy Silicon Valley: The Next Populist Movement…
Standout gains in large technology stocks like Amazon.com and Apple show just how much the sector is disconnected from the sluggish growth on the rest of Main Street, one notable strategist said in a report titled “Occupy Silicon Valley.” The tech stock rally “could ultimately lead to populist calls for redistribution of the increasingly concentrated […]
China Intervenes to Block Businessman From Revealing Spying Secrets on VOA…
An exiled Chinese businessman with close ties to the government has begun revealing secrets about Beijing’s intelligence operations after China pressured the official Voice of America radio to curtail a lengthy interview with him. Four VOA employees were suspended last month after more than an hour of the radio’s exclusive interview with billionaire businessman Guo […]
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How John Brennan’s CIA Became a Big Consumer of Unmasked Intelligence on Americans…
As former CIA Director John Brennan faces Congress anew on Tuesday, there is growing evidence the agency he oversaw has become one of the largest consumers of unmasked intelligence about Americans even though its charter prohibits it from spying on U.S. citizens. The CIA routinely searches data collected overseas on Americans by the National Security […]
Seth Rich Plot Thickens: “DC Insider” Speaks Of “Complete Panic” At Highest Levels Of DNC…
Last week, Fox News dropped a bombshell report officially confirming, via anonymous FBI sources, what many had suspected for quite some time, that murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich was the WikiLeaks source for leaks which proved that the DNC was intentionally undermining the campaign of Bernie Sanders. In addition to exposing the corruption of the […]
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WikiLeaks Reveals ‘Athena’ CIA Spying Program Targeting All Versions of Windows…
WikiLeaks has published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, detailing a spyware framework – which “provides remote beacon and loader capabilities on target computers” – allegedly being used by the CIA that works against every version of Microsoft’s Windows operating systems, from Windows XP to Windows 10. Dubbed Athena/Hera, the spyware has […]
More Hacking Groups Found Exploiting SMB Flaw Weeks Before WannaCry…
Since the Shadow Brokers released the zero-day software vulnerabilities and hacking tools – allegedly belonged to the NSA’s elite hacking team Equation Group – several hacking groups and individual hackers have started using them in their own way. The April’s data dump was believed to be the most damaging release by the Shadow Brokers till […]
Seven Years Later, Sweden Drops Rape Charges Against Julian Assange – ‘I don’t forgive or forget’…
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has complained he has unfairly missed seven years of his children growing up due to his ‘detention’ after Sweden dropped its rape probe against him. The 45-year-old said ‘I do not forgive or forget’ hours after Sweden’s top prosecutor, Marianne Ny, said the investigation had been ‘discontinued’ having effectively become a […]
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Harvard Study Reveals Huge Extent of Anti-Trump Media Bias…
A major new study out of Harvard University has revealed the true extent of the mainstream media’s bias against Donald Trump. Academics at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzed coverage from Trump’s first 100 days in office across 10 major TV and print outlets. They found that the tone of some […]
Meet the WaPo: Fake News Ground Zero…
For decades now, the Washington Post and New York Times have been read only by left-wing minions of the Democratic Party. Both are well known propaganda machines of the far left in America. But the situation changed for the worse in 2016, when Donald Trump became the 45th president of the United States. Jeffrey P. […]
Zomato Hacked in Latest Global Cyberattack, Data of 17M Users Stolen…
Zomato is the latest online company to be targeted by hackers, with personal data, email addresses and hashed passwords of up to 17 million users around the world stolen. The website, founded in India in 2008, boasts 120 million monthly users and hosts information on 1 million eateries in 10,000 cities across 23 countries. It […]
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