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[l] at 3/28/24 5:00am
A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.

[Category: Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/27/24 10:36am
Multiple university departments linked to the Clinical School Computing Service have been inaccessible for a month. The university has not revealed the nature of the “malicious activity.”

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/26/24 4:53am
A high court in London says the WikiLeaks founder won’t be extradited “immediately” and the US must provide more “assurances” about any extradition.

[Category: Security, Security / National Security, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/26/24 4:53am
A high court in London says the WikiLeaks founder won’t be extradited “immediately” and the US must provide more “assurances” about any extradition.

[Category: Security, Security / National Security, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/25/24 12:22pm
US and UK officials hit Chinese hacking group APT31 with sanctions and criminal charges after they targeted thousands of businesses, politicians, and critics of China.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/23/24 4:00am
Plus: The Biden administration warns of nationwide attacks on US water systems, a new Russian wiper malware emerges, and China-linked hackers wage a global attack spree.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/21/24 3:59pm
Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ’s new antitrust lawsuit argues that Apple selectively embraces privacy and security features in ways that hurt competition—and users.

[Category: Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/21/24 3:59pm
Privacy and security are an Apple selling point. But the DOJ's new antitrust lawsuit argues that Apple selectively embraces privacy and security features in ways that hurt competition—and users.

[Category: Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/21/24 8:00am
The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks]

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[l] at 3/20/24 12:25pm
Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies may get your data from some of the most popular sites online.

[Category: Security, Security / Privacy]

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[l] at 3/20/24 3:00am
Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring users to privately verify their real names is raising privacy concerns.

[Category: Business, Business / Social Media, Security, Security / Privacy]

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[l] at 3/16/24 7:00am
Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator reveals that popular safes contain secret backdoors.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/15/24 11:25am
For months, US lawmakers have examined every side of a historic surveillance debate. With the introduction of the SAFE Act, all that’s left to do now is vote.

[Category: Security, Security / National Security, Security / Privacy, Politics / Policy]

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[l] at 3/13/24 11:42am
Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more.

[Category: Security, Security / National Security, Politics / Policy]

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[l] at 3/13/24 6:00am
A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.

[Category: Security, Security / Security News, Business / Social Media]

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[l] at 3/13/24 3:00am
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has vacated an injunction against an age-verification requirement to view internet porn in Texas.

[Category: Security, Security / Privacy]

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[l] at 3/12/24 1:14pm
A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible ties to Hamas in an effort to kill privacy reforms to a major US spy program.

[Category: Security, Security / National Security, Security / Privacy, Politics / Policy]

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[l] at 3/11/24 10:03pm
Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.

[Category: Security, Security / Security News, Business / Blockchain and Cryptocurrency]

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[l] at 3/11/24 11:52am
The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered—some answers could be weirder than UFOs.

[Category: Security, Security / National Security, Science / Space]

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[l] at 3/11/24 8:38am
Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras inside their rental properties, citing a commitment to prioritizing guest privacy.

[Category: Security, Security / Privacy, Business / Startups]

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[l] at 3/11/24 1:00am
Content creators are using copyright laws to get nonconsensual deepfakes removed from the web. With the complaints covering nearly 30,000 URLs, experts say Google should do more to help.

[Category: Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/9/24 7:00am
Plus: An ex-Google engineer gets arrested for allegedly stealing trade secrets, hackers breach the top US cybersecurity agency, and X’s new feature exposes sensitive user data.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Privacy, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/6/24 8:38am
A coalition of 41 state attorneys general says Meta is failing to assist Facebook and Instagram users whose accounts have been hacked—and they want the company to take “immediate action.”

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security News, Business / Social Media]

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[l] at 3/5/24 3:28pm
With Meta’s updated 2FA process, the company now automatically trusts devices you often use.

[Category: Security, Security / Security Advice, Business / Social Media]

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[l] at 3/4/24 10:41am
The transaction, visible on Bitcoin's blockchain, suggests the victim of one of the worst ransomware attacks in years may have paid a very large ransom.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/2/24 7:00am
Plus: Apple warns about sideloading apps, a court orders NSO group to turn over the code of its Pegasus spyware, and an investigation finds widely available security cams are wildly insecure.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / National Security, Security / Security News]

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[l] at 3/1/24 2:00am
Security researchers created an AI worm in a test environment that can automatically spread between generative AI agents—potentially stealing data and sending spam emails along the way.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security News, Business / Artificial Intelligence]

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[l] at 2/29/24 5:01pm
The UK’s privacy regulator says the government did not take into account the intrusiveness of ankle tags that continuously monitor a person’s location.

[Category: Security, Security / Privacy]

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[l] at 2/29/24 11:24am
The notorious LockBit gang promised a Georgia court leak "that could affect the upcoming US election.” It didn't materialize—but the story may not be over yet.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security News, Politics / Global Elections, Politics / Politics News]

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[l] at 2/29/24 9:30am
Plus: Mozilla patches 12 flaws in Firefox, Zoom fixes seven vulnerabilities, and more critical updates from February.

[Category: Security, Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks, Security / Security Advice]

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