Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:25:08 +0000
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: The FBI’s baffling inaction on a ransomware group, a massive breach of Danish electric utilities, and more.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Beyond the blinding speeds and sharp turns on new terrain, the teams at this weekend’s big F1 race are preparing for another kind of danger.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:57:07 +0000
Far-right influencers and right-wing lawmakers are using the spread of Osama bin Laden’s “Letter to America” to call for a TikTok ban and boost decades old conspiracies.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:38:35 +0000
A new report by an oversight committee in the US House of Representatives says the FBI has routinely violated rules governing FISA’s Section 702 surveillance program and must be reined in.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000
Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against.
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Credit to Author: Reece Rogers| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000
With Meta’s recent update to its 2FA process, the company now automatically trusts devices you often use.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000
The National Telecommunication Monitoring Center in Bangladesh exposed a database to the open web. The types of data leaked online are extensive.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:15:43 +0000
The new generation of hardware authentication key includes support for cryptographic passkeys as Google pushes adoption of the more secure login alternative.
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Credit to Author: David Gilbert| Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:43:30 +0000
Jacob Chansley, the January 6 rioter known as the QAnon Shaman, will run for Congress in Arizona. The most remarkable thing about his campaign so far is how unremarkable it is in a state that’s embraced election conspiracies.
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