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Senator Presses Homeland Security for Answers Over Theft of Border Control Photos

Lawmakers on Friday continued to press for answers about the breach of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data reportedly stolen by hackers, an incident said to affect as many as 100,000 individuals who crossed the U.S. border over a month-and-a-half period. Few details have been released by the agency overseen by the Department of Homeland…

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FCC Commissioners Now Literal Poster Boys for Big Telecom

The Wireless Association (CTIA) would like you to know that it really appreciates all the hard work the FCC has been doing this year on behalf of its clients: AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast, and all the other telecom giants. To commemorate the FCC’s achievements—namely, diminishing its own authority to advocate on behalf of consumers against…

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Symantec Data Stolen by Hacker Is Fake, Company Says

Data including a purported list of clients was reportedly stolen from the leading antivirus maker Symantec in a breach the company has downplayed as having no ramifications. The Guardian reported on the incident Thursday, saying the stolen data included passwords and Symantec account numbers. The list of ostensible clients included the Australian federal police, major…

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Mitch McConnell Called Out for Blocking Vote on Net Neutrality Rules Republicans Actually Like

The consumer protections widely known as “net neutrality” are hugely popular among Republicans throughout the U.S., if only because cable and internet providers are American’s choice example of rapacious corporate gluttony. In Washington, however, things are radically different. Insofar as net neutrality is concerned, the relationship between GOP lawmakers and legendarily despised big cable companies—it’s…

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HackerOne Reveals Which Security Bugs Are Making Its Army of Hackers the Most Bank

As far back as 2015, major companies like Sony and Intel have sought to crowdsource efforts to secure their systems and applications through the San Francisco startup HackerOne. Through the “bug bounty” program offered by the company, hackers once viewed as a nuisance—or worse, as criminals—can identify security vulnerabilities and get paid for their work.…

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A Year Later, U.S. Government Websites Are Still Redirecting to Hardcore Porn

Dozens of U.S. government websites appear to contain a flaw enabling anyone to generate URLs with their domains that redirect users to external sites, a handy tool for criminals hoping to infect users with malware or fool them into surrendering personal information. Gizmodo first reported a year ago that a wide variety of U.S. government…

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China Telecom Swallows Huge Amount of European Mobile Traffic For Over Two Hours

For more than two hours on Thursday, one of China’s largest internet providers forced a huge chunk of European mobile traffic to be rerouted through its own servers. China Telecom has been implicated in similar incidents before. For about 18 minutes in April 2010, roughly 15 percent of the world’s internet traffic suddenly traversed through…

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Ted Cruz Takes On YouTube With Impotent Threats and Brain Worms

Throwing his arms around a far-right provocateur whose shtick includes labeling political adversaries “queers” and “fags,” Senator Ted Cruz on Thursday tweeted a rebuke of YouTube over the company’s belated decision to take action against Steven Crowder, a man whose years-long campaign of harassment against a gay journalist invariably culminated in a barrage of death…

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Why Islamic State Recruitment Is Thriving on Telegram

New research coming out of George Washington University today provides one of the most exhaustive looks yet at the vast and complex network of self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) supporters permeating Telegram, the encrypted messaging platform. The collapse of the so-called caliphate has left the jihadist organization in a state of geographical disarray. Yet while its…

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Cyber Criminals Are Making Bank Using Stolen Doctor Credentials on the Dark Net

A new report by a leading cybersecurity firm finds that healthcare organizations are becoming an increasingly attractive target for criminal hackers due to the premium that black markets place on private health information—and in particular, the credentials of physicians that can be used to facilitate health insurance fraud. A key finding in the report, published…

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Watch Never-Before-Released Video From Cult of the Dead Cow’s Def Con 7 Reveal

When I was a little kid, there’s nothing I wanted more than to be a hacker. Of course, my 12-year-old brain’s perception of what it meant to be a hacker was horribly skewed by movies like The Lawnmower Man, Tron, and tabletop RPGs like Shadowrun. (If only, right?) Today is the release of what promises…

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Firefox Deploys a Slew of New Privacy Features, Taking Aim at Facebook and Invasive Online Trackers

There are plenty of browsers to choose from, but two of the most popular, when it comes to privacy at least, are headed down radically divergent paths. Whereas Google appears keen on crippling Chrome users’ efforts to block tracker-driven ads, Mozilla on Tuesday moved to block such trackers by default, with the aim of preventing…

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Here’s Every New Privacy Feature Apple Announced Today

Apple has been facing increased criticism of its privacy practices lately and rightfully so. During CES 2019 last year, the company tried trolling visitors of the annual conference—which it famously does not attend—with a brazenly false piece of advertising: a massive outdoor ad declaring “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Nothing could…

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Chelsea Manning’s Lawyers Again Ask For Her Release, Say She’ll Never ‘Betray Her Principles’

Attorneys for Chelsea Manning on Friday have once again asked the court to release the activist and whistleblower from her confinement in Virginia on the basis that she cannot be coerced to testify in the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange. “She is suffering physically and psychologically, and is at…

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Sprint Drove Me to a Dumpster in Texas to Show Me the Future

The experience of using a 5G phone for the first time is a bit anticlimactic, if I’m being honest. When I picked up an LG V50 ThinQ running on Sprint’s hours-old 5G network in Dallas on Wednesday, an LG rep urged me to observe just how quickly YouTube videos would load. It was fast, no…

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42 Million Dating App Records Exposed Online, Leaking User IP Addresses and Location Data

A database containing records of tens of millions of users of various dating apps has been found publicly accessible, according to a researcher who says it remains unclear who amassed the data. In a blog Wednesday, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler said he discovered the database and that it was not protected by so much as…

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FCC Cuts Bogus Data From Yearly Broadband Report, Acts Like Nothing Happened

You know what they say, tens of millions of broadband users here, tens of millions of broadband users there, sooner or later it starts to add up to something. On Wednesday, the Federal Communications Commission released its annual Broadband Deployment Report declaring that the digital divide—the gulf between Americans who have high-speed internet access and…

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Mark Zuckerberg to Ignore Canadian Parliament’s Subpoena, Maybe Get Found in Contempt

The hottest trend sweeping Washington right now has officially arrived in Silicon Valley: Defying lawmakers’ subpoenas is all the rage and Facebook apparently has no plans to be left out. The Canadian Parliament’s ethics committee voted earlier this month to subpoena Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, requesting that the pair appear as witnesses for…

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New Maine Law Ends Non-Medical Excuses for Avoiding Vaccination

The state of Maine has joined California, West Virginia, and Mississippi in barring the use of religious and philosophical exemptions to opt out of school immunization requirements. Governor Janet Mills signed the bill on Friday after it was narrowly passed by state legislators last week. The state senate voted to approve the bill in a…

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Powerful Earthquake Strikes Miles Below Amazon Rainforest in Peru, Limiting Casualties

An 8.0 magnitude earthquake rocked northern Peru on Sunday, killing at least one man and causing several injuries, the Associated Press reports. The earthquake, which struck in the early hours of the morning, was centered on a remote area of the Amazon jungle, the Pacaya-Samiria National Reserve, a vast forest bordered by the Marañón and…

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Senator Presses Homeland Security for Answers Over Theft of Border Control Photos

FCC Commissioners Now Literal Poster Boys for Big Telecom

Symantec Data Stolen by Hacker Is Fake, Company Says

Mitch McConnell Called Out for Blocking Vote on Net Neutrality Rules Republicans Actually Like

HackerOne Reveals Which Security Bugs Are Making Its Army of Hackers the Most Bank

A Year Later, U.S. Government Websites Are Still Redirecting to Hardcore Porn

China Telecom Swallows Huge Amount of European Mobile Traffic For Over Two Hours

Ted Cruz Takes On YouTube With Impotent Threats and Brain Worms

Why Islamic State Recruitment Is Thriving on Telegram

Cyber Criminals Are Making Bank Using Stolen Doctor Credentials on the Dark Net

Watch Never-Before-Released Video From Cult of the Dead Cow’s Def Con 7 Reveal

Firefox Deploys a Slew of New Privacy Features, Taking Aim at Facebook and Invasive Online Trackers

Here’s Every New Privacy Feature Apple Announced Today

Chelsea Manning’s Lawyers Again Ask For Her Release, Say She’ll Never ‘Betray Her Principles’

Sprint Drove Me to a Dumpster in Texas to Show Me the Future

42 Million Dating App Records Exposed Online, Leaking User IP Addresses and Location Data

FCC Cuts Bogus Data From Yearly Broadband Report, Acts Like Nothing Happened

Mark Zuckerberg to Ignore Canadian Parliament’s Subpoena, Maybe Get Found in Contempt

New Maine Law Ends Non-Medical Excuses for Avoiding Vaccination

Powerful Earthquake Strikes Miles Below Amazon Rainforest in Peru, Limiting Casualties

Even the ‘Avatar’ Fighting Game Is Disrespecting ‘Legend of Korra’

Bluesky Has a New App, and It’s All About AI

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor *And* an Action Figure!

Whatever Just Happened with ‘Fruit Love Island,’ Nobody Won

AMC Puts a Stake in ‘Talamasca’ After One Season

Aqara Smart Lock U400 Review: Hands-free Unlocking at Its Best

2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs

MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

Ahead of the SpaceX IPO, xAI Has Now Shed All 11 of Its Non-Elon Musk Founders

Do ‘Disclosure Day’ Prep With a Spielberg Sci-Fi Marathon

Sonos Play Review: Call It a Comeback

Sonos Era 100 SL Review: The Cheapest Way Into Wired Sonos Sound

Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

Nothing Headphone A vs. Headphone 1: Which Pair of ANC Wireless Headphones Wins?

Asus ROG’s Cetra Open Wireless Gaming Earbuds Might Be Better Than Wearing a Headset

Nintendo’s Talking Flower Is Annoying as Hell. I Love It

Level Lock Pro Review: As Good as a Secret Smart Lock Gets

Apple Studio Display XDR Review: It Looks So Good, I Wish It Were an iMac

RayNeo Air 4 Pro Review: My Eyes Love These Video Glasses, but My Nose Disagrees

Dammit, Jim, He’s a Doctor And an Action Figure!