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Jul 7, 2020 • 8min
Schools Already Struggled With Cybersecurity. Then Came Covid-19
A lack of dedicated funding and resources made it hard to keep data secure—and that was before classes moved almost entirely online.
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Jul 6, 2020 • 9min
New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears
The malware known as ThiefQuest or EvilQuest also has spyware capabilities that allow it to grab passwords and credit card numbers.
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Jul 3, 2020 • 4min
Google Will Delete Your Data by Default—in 18 Months
Starting today, the search giant will make a previously opt-in auto-delete feature the norm.Â
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Jul 2, 2020 • 6min
Security News This Week: Julian Assange Faces New Conspiracy Allegations
Plus: Evil Corp hacking, an anti-encryption bill, and more of the week's top security news.
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Jul 1, 2020 • 8min
Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Side Channel Attack?
Computers constantly give off more information than you might realize—which hackers can use to pry out their secrets.
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Jun 30, 2020 • 7min
How Thousands of Misplaced Emails Took Over This Engineer's Inbox
Kenton Varda gets dozens of messages a day from Spanish-speakers around the world, all thanks to a Gmail address he registered 16 years ago.
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Jun 29, 2020 • 6min
A Report Blames ‘CIA Failures’ for the Agency's Worst Hack
A series of WikiLeaks disclosures that exposed a trove of the intelligence organization's secrets could have been avoided, a task force found.
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Jun 26, 2020 • 7min
Zoom Reverses Course and Promises End-to-End Encryption for All Users
The video conferencing platform had previously said that only paid accounts would get the feature—a move privacy advocates roundly decried.Â
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Jun 25, 2020 • 9min
The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About
Secondary Infektion appears to be a distinct effort from the meddling of the IRA and GRU—and it went undetected for years.
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Jun 24, 2020 • 10min
Bot Mafias Have Wreaked Havoc in World of Warcraft Classic
Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy.
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