Attackers Keep Targeting the US Electric Grid
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: Chinese hackers stealing US Covid relief funds, a cyberattack on the Met Opera website, and more.
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Log4j’s Log4Shell Vulnerability: One Year Later, It’s Still Lurking
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000
Despite mitigation, one of the worst bugs in internet history is still prevalent—and being exploited.
Read moreElon Musk’s Twitter Files Are a Feast for Conspiracy Theorists
Credit to Author: Justin Ling| Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000
From QAnon influencers to @catturd, the very online right sees exactly what they want to see in the CEO’s orchestrated disclosure.
Read moreThe Dangerous Digital Creep of Britain’s ‘Hostile Environment’
Credit to Author: Sanjana Varghese| Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:22:46 +0000
The UK’s use of technology to enforce its hard-line immigration policy brings the border into every facet of migrants’ lives.
Read moreThe Invasive Reach of ‘Digital-by-Default’ Immigration
Credit to Author: Sanjana Varghese| Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2022 13:22:46 +0000
The UK’s use of technology to enforce its hard-line immigration policy brings the border into every facet of migrants’ lives.
Read moreChina’s Police State Targets Zero-Covid Protesters
Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: ICE accidentally doxes asylum seekers, Google fails to uphold a post-Roe promise, and LastPass suffers the second breach this year.
Read moreIran’s Protests Reveal What’s Lost If Twitter Crumbles
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:00:00 +0000
As authorities hit citizens with more violence, the social network is proving key to documenting abuses. If it breaks, a human rights lifeline may disappear.
Read moreGoogle Moves to Block Invasive Spanish Spyware Framework
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:42:24 +0000
The Heliconia hacking tool exploited vulnerabilities in Chrome, Windows Defender, and Firefox, according to company security researchers.
Read moreA Peek Inside the FBI’s Unprecedented January 6 Geofence Dragnet
Credit to Author: Mark Harris| Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000
Google provided investigators with location data for more than 5,000 devices as part of the federal investigation into the attack on the US Capitol.
Read moreThe US Has a Bomb-Sniffing Dog Shortage
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:34:51 +0000
Finding high-quality detection canines is hard enough—and the pandemic only dug a deeper hole.
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