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FEMA Defends Actions Following Data Release Affecting 2.3 Million Disaster Victims…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday said it had taken “aggressive” corrective measures after mistakenly releasing detailed personal data of some 2.3 million disaster victims to a contractor. A “management alert” dated March 15 from the Homeland Security Department’s acting Inspector General John Kelly hit news outlets on Friday showing that FEMA in 2017 […]

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Federal Taskforce Busts 61 Connected to Darknet Opioid Sales…

In a joint effort targeting online drug trafficking between January 11 and March 12, U.S. and international law enforcement agencies executed 65 search warrants, made 61 arrests and shut down 50 darknet accounts used for illegal activity, the Drug Enforcement Administration and FBI announced today. The arrests are a result of Operation SaboTor, the second […]

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Hide Those Memes, Folks! Europe Passes Massive Online Copyright Changes That Will Lead to Censorship…

Members of the European Union’s parliament ignored dire warnings that they’re heading down a path toward massive online censorship and have passed legislation that will hold online platforms financially liable for copyright violations by users and would require search engines and social media platforms to get licenses from media companies to share even snippets of […]

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The Haunting of Hacker House…

Our Bed and Breakfast looked like it was out of a goth comic book: a shadowy, mid-sized Victorian on top of a steep hill, in forced perspective. A blood-red “vacancy” sign glowed overbright in the parlor window. My son and I had taken Amtrak to upstate New York for a weekend of cheap skiing. Before […]

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The FBI Had Already Accessed Family Tree DNA’s Database Before Cooperation

The filters at FamilyTreeDNA started catching some attempted uploads to their database toward the end of 2018. The format was unrecognizable—something they had never seen before. So the company sent an email to the listed point of contact. Days later, FamilyTreeDNA got a call. It was from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They had uploaded […]

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Tesla Sues Former Employees for Allegedly Stealing Data, Autopilot Source Code…

Tesla Inc filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a former engineer at the company, claiming he copied the source code for its Autopilot technology before joining a Chinese self-driving car startup in January. The engineer, Guangzhi Cao, copied more than 300,000 files related to Autopilot source code as he prepared to join China’s Xiaopeng Motors […]

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Amazon Goes After Google, Facebook with Mobile Ad Launch…

In its quest for global, and galactic monopolistic domination, Amazon had focused mostly on legacy businesses with low margins which had little operational leverage, high debt and were losing market share to the online retail giant; one thing the world’s richest man refused to do was to aggressively go after his online tech giant peers. […]

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A Huge Trove of Medical Records and Prescriptions Found Exposed…

Health tech company was leaking thousands of doctor’s notes, medical records, and prescriptions daily after a security lapse left a server without a password. The little-known software company, California-based Meditab, bills itself as one of the leading electronic medical records software makers for hospitals, doctor’s offices, and pharmacies. The company, among other things, processes electronic […]

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A Russian ‘Troll Slayer’ Went Undercover at a Troll Factory…

When a journalist heard a bot organization was hiring writers, she went for it. Slaying online trolls can be a lonely business. Just ask Russia’s Lyudmila Savchuk, who first exposed the story of Russia’s disinformation campaign back in 2014. The journalist and 33-year-old mother of two, Savchuk started noticing websites and social media accounts attacking […]

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Nunes Sues Twitter, Some Users, Seeks Over $250M Alleging Anti-Conservatives ‘Shadow Bans,’ Smears…

California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes filed a major lawsuit seeking $250 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages against Twitter and a handful of its users on Monday, accusing the social media site of “shadow-banning conservatives” including himself to influence the 2018 elections, systematically censoring opposing viewpoints and totally “ignoring” lawful complaints of […]

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NASA Is About to Turn Off the Kepler Spacecraft, and it Will Drift Away…

After more than nine years in operation, the Kepler Space Telescope has run out of hydrazine fuel. Mission managers will now send a command to the spacecraft, which is presently trailing Earth in a heliocentric orbit about 150 million kilometers away, to turn off the spacecraft’s transmitters. It will be cast adrift into the silent […]

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The WhatsApp Cofounder Who Sold to Facebook for $19B Tells Students to Delete Facebook…

WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton defended his decision to sell his company to Facebook for $19 billion and encouraged students to delete their accounts from the social network in a rare public appearance at Stanford University on Wednesday. As one of the guest speakers for Computer Science 181, an undergraduate class focused on technology companies’ social […]

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VIPS: Mueller’s Forensics-Free Findings in DNC Hacks…

Media reports are predicting that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is about to give you the findings of his probe into any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump. If Mueller gives you his “completed” report anytime soon, it should be graded “incomplete.” Major deficiencies include […]

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Facebook, Google and Other Big Tech Giants Are About to Face a ‘Reckoning’…

Some of the country’s most powerful state attorneys general are signaling they’re willing to take action against Facebook, Google and other tech giants, warning that the companies have grown too big and powerful – and that Washington has been too slow to respond. For many of these top law enforcement officials, the fear is that […]

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Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage…

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms. While the outage was quite troubling both for the social media giant and its millions of users, guess […]

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Firefox Send — Free Encrypted File Transfer Service Now Available For All

Mozilla has made it easy for you to share large files securely and privately with whomever you want, eliminating the need to depend upon less secure free third-party services or file upload tools that burn a hole in your pocket. Mozilla has finally launched its free, end-to-end encrypted file-transfer service, called Firefox Send, to the […]

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