Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: Alleged Snowflake hacker will be extradited to US, internet restrictions create an information vacuum in Myanmar, and London gets its first permanent face recognition cameras.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman| Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:47:31 +0000
WIRED has found four new Venmo accounts that appear to be associated with Trump officials who were in an infamous Signal chat. One made a payment with a note consisting solely of an eggplant emoji.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:31:30 +0000
Scandal surrounding the Trump administration’s Signal group chat has led to a landmark week for the encrypted messaging app’s adoption—its “largest US growth moment by a massive margin.”
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman| Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:44:21 +0000
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:54:49 +0000
The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:24:31 +0000
The ad hoc addition to the otherwise tightly controlled White House information environment could create blind spots and security exposures while setting potentially dangerous precedent.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:00:00 +0000
Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US. But cutting ties won’t be easy.
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Credit to Author: Violet Blue| Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here’s what you need to know.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000
Chinese ecommerce giants like Temu and AliExpress sell drone accessories like those used by soldiers in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: A nominee to lead CISA emerges, Elon Musk visits the NSA, a renowned crypto cracking firm’s secret (and problematic) cofounder is revealed, and more.
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