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New PGP Encryption Exploits Are Being Discovered Almost Every Other Day

For more than a week, PGP developers have been rapidly working to patch critical flaws in the legacy encryption protocol used for sending and receiving secure emails; a tool that’s widely relied upon by lawyers, journalists, dissidents, and human rights advocates, many of whom operate at the highest levels of risk in shadows cast by…

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Nation-State Hackers Could ‘Self-Destruct’ Half a Million Routers, Researchers Warn [Updated]

Update: The FBI says it seized part of VPNFilter’s command and control infrastructure. The DOJ attributed the botnet to APT 28 (a.k.a. Fancy Bear). See the full update below the article. Security researchers said Wednesday that at least 500,000 home and small business routers in up to 54 countries are infected with a new breed…

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FCC Chair Ajit Pai Spanked by Lawmakers for Ducking Oversight Committee’s Questions

The FCC chairman has been formally accused of dodging and deceiving the federal lawmakers charged with the oversight of his agency. In a letter sent Wednesday, House Democrats said the chairman, Ajit Pai, has been avoiding important questions sent by members of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, the legislative group tasked with reviewing and…

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The Islamic State is Getting Rich Off Your Makeup and Baby Powder

Satellite images reveal extensive mining operations not far from the site of a 2017 US airstrike in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan—an attack most Americans remember only because of the nightmarish nickname of the weapon employed: The “Mother of All Bombs.” The 20,000-pound GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB, was detonated above a massive…

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Senators Demand FCC Answer for Fake Comments After Realizing Their Identities Were Stolen

In a bipartisan letter on Monday, two US senators called on the FCC to investigate the identity theft and fraud in public comments collected by the agency during its proposal to rollback net neutrality protections last year. Senators Jeff Merkley, Democrat of Oregon, and Pat Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, are among the estimated “two million…

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FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out

In an interview just prior to leaving the FCC this month, former Commissioner Mignon Clyburn took aim at the agency where she worked for nearly nine years, saying it has abandoned its mission to safeguard consumers and protect their privacy and speech. Clyburn, a net neutrality proponent who served as interim FCC chief in 2013, equated…

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Sen. Wyden Calls on FCC Chairman to Recuse Himself From Phone-Tracking Investigation

Sen. Ron Wyden called on the FCC chairman to recuse himself from an investigation involving a prison phone company that’s been accused of helping police circumvent warrants in obtaining cellphone location data. The Federal Communications Commission referred the phone-tracking matter, which involves Securus, an inmate calling service, to its enforcement bureau on Friday. The FCC…

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Just 13 States Have Requested Funds Congress Set Aside to Secure Election Systems

Thirteen states have withdrawn a total of nearly $88 million from an election security fund established by Congress in March, but more than 75 percent of the funding has yet to be dispersed. The $380 million fund, established as part of Congress’ omnibus appropriations bill, is meant to aid state officials in securing and improving…

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Facebook Partners With D.C. Think Tank to Combat Election Meddling

Facebook on Thursday announced a partnership with the Atlantic Council aimed at expanding its understanding of disinformation campaigns and other emerging threats to democratic elections worldwide. The think tank’s Digital Forensic Research Lab will partner with Facebook’s security, policy, and production teams in the hopes of increasing awareness of how the platform is being abused,…

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Here’s What’s Next in the Fight to Save Net Neutrality

The United States Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution to nullify the Federal Communication Commission’s rollback of net neutrality, which is slated to go into effect less than four weeks from now. The vote was both a significant victory for net neutrality supporters and a stinging rebuke of Ajit Pai, who’s time as FCC chair…

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A Shady Company Offering Police Cellphone Location Data Was Reportedly Just Hacked

A hacker has reportedly provided journalists with login credentials and other data stolen from the servers of Securus, a company that was recently revealed to be selling cellphone location information to U.S. law enforcement agencies without a warrant. The hacker reportedly provided Motherboard with several internal files, including a database of over 2,800 Securus usernames—primarily…

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Stranger Things Actor David Harbour Calls Out ‘Greedy Dickheads’ Who Oppose Net Neutrality

The US Senate about to vote on a resolution to nullify new FCC rules that will rollback net neutrality. Overwhelmingly, Republican lawmakers oppose the action, despite the fact that Americans are united against them on this issue. The rules the FCC’s Republican majority voted to overturn in December prohibited internet service providers from throttling or…

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Man Arrested for Child Porn Named as Suspect in Leak of CIA Files to WikiLeaks

A suspect held in a Manhattan jail on child pornography charges is the lead suspect in last year’s leak of CIA hacking tools to WikiLeaks, reports the Washington Post. Joshua Adam Schulte, charged in August 2017 with the receipt, possession, and transportation of child pornography, is believed to have supplied WikiLeaks with a cache of…

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Facebook Dodges Parliament’s Questions About Cambridge Analytica, Ads Inciting Violence in Myanmar

Facebook has responded to a list of 39 questions provided by British lawmakers concerning user privacy, but in many cases, the company failed to adequately provide answers, a parliamentary committee said. Asked, for example, who at Facebook ultimately made the decision not to inform users that their information had been illegitimately acquired by the political…

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I Want My Data Back, Data Back, Data Back

On Sunday, Brinker International, the restaurant company, disclosed a security incident involving the theft of payment card information at one of its restaurants, Chili’s. But so far the scope of breach remains a mystery. According to Brinker, customers were compromised at certain Chili’s restaurants between March and April, after malware infected one or more of…

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SecureDrop Safe From the New PGP Attack, So Please Continue Leaking All the Things

Monday is turning out to be a pretty bad day for Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), one of the most widely used encryption standards, which rolled out nearly 30 years ago. Researchers have disclosed a proof-of-concept that reveals how an attacker might exfiltrate the decrypted contents of a PGP message from a target’s computer, provided they…

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Amazon Echo That Records Kids Draws Concern From U.S. Lawmakers

U.S. lawmakers are raising concerns over the Amazon Echo Kids Edition, a hands-free, voice-controlled hockey puck of a device that reads bedtime stories, plays Disney tunes, and programs our offspring to be tactful and courteous when interacting with artificial intelligent machines—a useful survival skill to impart in advance of humanity’s impending subservience to the cybernetic…

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AT&T Deeply Regrets Getting Caught Paying the President’s Lawyer to Fix Its Time Warner Deal

AT&T wants its employees to know that it is so, so sorry that it hired Michael Cohen, President’s Trump’s longtime attorney, whom federal prosecutors are now eyeballing over a $130,000 payment to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels, among other potentially shady business dealings. Randall L. Stephenson, AT&T chief executive, wrote in a letter on Friday, first…

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The FCC Will Terminate Net Neutrality on June 11

The 2015 Open Internet Order, which established federal protections for net neutrality and barred internet service providers from blocking or throttling legal content online, will formally cease on June 11, the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday. When that happens, the agency’s new rules, passed by the commission’s Republican majority in December, will go into…

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Congress Might Actually Save Net Neutrality, If Republicans Can Learn How to Read Polls

Democrats on Wednesday officially filed a petition to force a vote in the Senate to save net neutrality. With a single Republican supporting the effort, only one vote is needed to advance a resolution that may one day soon reinstate the net neutrality rules overturned by the FCC last year. “The American people know that…

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New PGP Encryption Exploits Are Being Discovered Almost Every Other Day

Nation-State Hackers Could ‘Self-Destruct’ Half a Million Routers, Researchers Warn [Updated]

FCC Chair Ajit Pai Spanked by Lawmakers for Ducking Oversight Committee’s Questions

The Islamic State is Getting Rich Off Your Makeup and Baby Powder

Senators Demand FCC Answer for Fake Comments After Realizing Their Identities Were Stolen

FCC Commissioner Says the Agency Is a Shill for ISPs as She Slams the Door on Her Way Out

Sen. Wyden Calls on FCC Chairman to Recuse Himself From Phone-Tracking Investigation

Just 13 States Have Requested Funds Congress Set Aside to Secure Election Systems

Facebook Partners With D.C. Think Tank to Combat Election Meddling

Here’s What’s Next in the Fight to Save Net Neutrality

A Shady Company Offering Police Cellphone Location Data Was Reportedly Just Hacked

Stranger Things Actor David Harbour Calls Out ‘Greedy Dickheads’ Who Oppose Net Neutrality

Man Arrested for Child Porn Named as Suspect in Leak of CIA Files to WikiLeaks

Facebook Dodges Parliament’s Questions About Cambridge Analytica, Ads Inciting Violence in Myanmar

I Want My Data Back, Data Back, Data Back

SecureDrop Safe From the New PGP Attack, So Please Continue Leaking All the Things

Amazon Echo That Records Kids Draws Concern From U.S. Lawmakers

AT&T Deeply Regrets Getting Caught Paying the President’s Lawyer to Fix Its Time Warner Deal

The FCC Will Terminate Net Neutrality on June 11

Congress Might Actually Save Net Neutrality, If Republicans Can Learn How to Read Polls

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!