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Jun 21, 2017 • 10min
How Russia Hacks Elections in the US and Around the World
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Jun 20, 2017 • 22min
Robert Mueller Chooses His Investigatory Dream Team
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Jun 16, 2017 • 7min
The Next Device in Your House to Get Hacked May Be Your Vibrator
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Jun 15, 2017 • 12min
Crash Override Malware Took Down Ukraine's Power Grid Last December
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Jun 13, 2017 • 8min
Everything You Need to Know About James Comey’s Senate Hearing
It’s almost showtime in Washington, DC. On Thursday, former FBI director James Comey will testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee for the first time since he was fired in the midst of an ongoing investigation into a possible connection between Trump campaign officials and Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Comey’s opening remarks, already public, set the stage for an explosive hearing.
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Jun 12, 2017 • 8min
Blaming the Internet For Terrorism Misses The Point
British Prime Minister Theresa May has found somethingto blame for Saturday night’s terror attack in London: the internet. May, responding to the attack by three young men who killed seven people and injured scores more, called for an end to the “safe spaces” that the internet provides, and for measures to “regulate cyberspace.” “We cannot allow this ideology the safe space it needs to breed.
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Jun 9, 2017 • 7min
What Christopher Wray Learned From the Last Two FBI Directors
With a tweet Wednesday morning, President Trump announced his pick to replace James Comey as FBI director. Should the Senate confirm him, Christopher Wray will step into the job amid the controversial firing of his predecessor, and the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate that incident, as well as the larger swirling questions around Trump and Russia’s meddling with the 2016 election. It’s no small task.
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Jun 8, 2017 • 5min
Hack Brief: Dangerous ‘Fireball’ Adware Infects a Quarter Billion PCs
Adware that infects your computer to display annoying pop-ups is an annoyance. But when it infects as many as one five networks in the world, and hides the capability to do far more serious damage to its victims, it’s an epidemic waiting to happen.
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Jun 7, 2017 • 5min
Security News This Week: OneLogin Had One Very Bad Breach
For the first time in too long, a week went by without any major international security incidents (unless you count the US withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement, which you probably should). Perhaps unsurprisingly, that meant there was also time to look at defensive measures for a change. For instance! The US successfully tested its very expensive, not entirely reliable missile defense system, but that doesn't mean we'd be safe from a real-world attack.
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Jun 6, 2017 • 9min
Banned From the US? There’s a Robot for That
Two telepresence robots roll into a human-computer interaction conference. Sounds like the beginning of a very nerdy joke, but it really happened (#2017). A few weeks ago in Denver, Colorado, a robot I was piloting over the internet from my computer in Idaho stood wheel-to-wheel with a similar ‘bot in a pink skirt controlled by a researcher in Germany. We huddled. We introduced ourselves by yelling at each other’s screens.
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