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Aug 2, 2019 • 9min
8/2 AM An iPhone App That Protects Your Privacy—For Real This Time
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Jul 31, 2019 • 7min
7/31 AM The Alleged Capital One Hacker Didn't Cover Her Tracks
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Jul 30, 2019 • 6min
An Operating System Bug Exposes 200 Million Critical Device
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Jul 30, 2019 • 4min
7/30 AM Equifax Might Owe You $125. Here's How to Get It
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Jul 26, 2019 • 9min
7/26 PM Facebook's Ex-Security Chief Details His 'Observatory' for Internet Abuse
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Jul 26, 2019 • 5min
7/26 AM The Marines’ New Drone-Killer Aces Its First Test
Last Thursday, nearly a month after Iran shot a $220 million US drone out of the sky, the US Marine Corps took down an Iranian UAV of its own. But the significance lies less in heightened tensions in the region than it does in the weapon of choice. The strike marks the first reported successful use of the Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System, an energy weapon that blasts not artillery or lasers, but radio signals.
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Jul 24, 2019 • 3min
The App Creeping on Your IG Location, Jakarta’s Insurance Crisis, and More News
The new app that creeps on your Instagram location, Jakarta is sinking, and all things Comic Con. Fast. Here's the news you need to know, in two minutes or less. Want to receive this two-minute roundup as an email every weekday? Sign up here! Today's Headlines This app lets your Instagram followers track your location Wherever you go, Instagram's there too.
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Jul 24, 2019 • 6min
Security News This Week: Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions of People
Europeans had to navigate by the stars this week—well, GPS, but still—after the continent's burgeoning Galileo satellite navigation network went dark for a full seven days. The incident is a warning for everyone of how fallible the infrastructure of our modern lives really is.
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Jul 22, 2019 • 9min
Why Microsoft’s BlueKeep Bug Hasn’t Wreaked Havoc—Yet
When news appeared in May of the security vulnerability in Windows that would come to be known as BlueKeep, security researchers almost immediately cautioned that the flaw looked like the central ingredient for a destructive worm sure to rampage through the internet. Microsoft issued a series of stark warnings to patch the flaw, which persisted in roughly a million computers. Even the NSA took the rare step of noting the bug's severity.
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Jul 19, 2019 • 6min
7/19 Security News this Week: Palantir Manual Shows How Law Enforcement Tracks Families
On Zoom conference calls across the US this week, brows furrowed as the news broke that the video conference company had a flaw in its backend that could give hackers access to people’s webcams. Worse, Zoom seemed at first unwilling to fix the problem. Thankfully, hours after the initial reports, Zoom backtracked and issued a new fix to solve underlying vulnerability. You can go back to Zooming your brilliant brainstorms in peace, everyone.
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