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Delta’s Facebook Page Just Wants To Talk About Bl0wjobs Right Now

Delta, Delta, Delta. The Jan Brady of airlines has fucked up again. Someone has hacked Delta’s Facebook page and is posting about blowjobs and worms. (No word yet on whether the hacker is a group of 13-year-old boys at a sleepover.) Just like its flights, its social media hack is gross, unpleasant, and amateur. IF…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Report Finds Anti-Hacking Car Security “Inconsistent and Haphazard”

Senator Ed Markey recently asked all of the major car companies for information about how they protect drivers’ security and privacy in cars with wireless technology. The answers were not good. The senator’s report found that anti-hacker measures in nearly every single one of these cars were “inconsistent and haphazard.” That’s putting it lightly. Long…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Get 2GB Extra Google Drive Space Just By Checking Your Security Settings

Want 2 GB of extra space in your Google Drive account? Today,Google will give it to you for free, just for doing something you should be doing anyway: Reviewing your security. Turning on things like two-step verification and having a strong password are great, but it’s not enough to just set it and forget it.…

Tech News Eric Limer

A Researcher Just Published 10 Million Real Passwords and Usernames

Security consultant Mark Burnett has just published 10 million passwords along with their corresponding usernames. It’s a thoughtful offering to other researchers—but a legally risky move given the current legal situation surrounding hacking. Usually, passwords are released alone to researchers, but that prevents them from analyzing how username and password might go together. Burnett has…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

A New Government Agency Will Fight Digital Terrorism

In the wake of the Sony Pictures hack the Obama administration is to establish a new government agency which will “combat the deepening threat from cyberattacks,” according to the Washington Post. The newspaper explains that, later today, the president’s counterterrorism chief will announce the new agency, which will be known as the Cyber Threat Intelligence…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Beware: Anthem Hack Victims Are Getting Bombarded by Phishing Scams

Just a few days ago, Anthem, the second-largest health insurer in the country, revealed that it had been the victim of a massive security breach, potentially exposing the highly sensitive data of up to 80 million customers. And things just got worse. Now, both current and former customersare being hit with phishing emailsdesigned to look…

Privacy & Security Ashley Feinberg

The Sony Hack’s Banal Reality: Paper Memos, BlackBerries, and Takeout

It’s been a little over two months since the Sony hack first rocked the world of the tens of thousands of employees who had their passwords and social security numbers (among other sensitive bits of info) exposed. Butdespite what some of the more imaginative amongst us might hope, it turns out that the reality of…

Privacy & Security Ashley Feinberg

Why So Many Hackers Are Going After the Health Care Industry

Initial suspicions from the massive hack at Anthem are just starting to roll in, and they are suspicious. Long story short, a few unnamed people immediately jumped to the conclusionthat it was China. That said, Anthem is hardly the only health care company that’s been hacked lately. It’s a bit of an pandemic, actually (pardon…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

The World’s Email Encryption Relies on a Guy Who Is Going Broke

The man who built the free email encryption software used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, as well as hundreds of thousands of journalists, dissidents and security-minded people around the world, is running out of money to keep his project alive. This post was originally published on ProPublica. Werner Koch wrote the software, known as Gnu Privacy…

Privacy & Security Julia Angwin - ProPublica

Your Passport’s Complex Security Tech, Explained By Forgery Pros

The passport is a bizarre and unique object. Think about it: The goal is to put it in the hands of millions upon millions of people—and for none of them to ever understand the technology that’s at work in their wallets. It’s an extremely important mystery: Passports protect our identities, they protect national security, they…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Here’s Why Your Bank Account Is Less Secure Than Your Gmail

When I log into Gmail, the system texts me a one-time key which I use to verify that it’s me trying to get in and not some jerk who got my login info from a password dump. You’d think my bank would have the same level of protection to make sure bad guys can’t get…

Privacy & Security Mario Aguilar

Some Stock Broker Lost $75,000 To Hackers Over One Email

The SEC just revealed that the vast majority of brokerages and financial advisers have been hit with cyberattacks. The agency’s report also reveals: “One adviser reported a loss in excess of $75,000 related to a fraudulent email, for which the client was made whole.” LOL what? That’s a pretty large sum of money to lose…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

This Tiny Key-Code Flash Drive PIN Protects Your Files—for a Price

Tiny capacious flash drives not only make it easy to carry gigs and gigs of data wherever you go, they also makes it easy to lose gigs and gigs of data. So if you’ve had more flash drives go MIA than you prefer to remember, Toshiba will now let you password protect those lost files…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Obama’s Latest NSA “Reform” Is Predictably Weak

If this is NSA reform, it’s pretty pitiful. The Obama administration will announce new rules today that will force the intelligence agency to delete data about Americans that was “incidentally” collected—basically, accidentally scooped up in an overly broad search query. As of now, the government collects and stores all that personal data, which does abolutely…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Hackers Posed as Hot Girls on Skype to Steal Intel From Syrian Rebels

It’s kind of the oldest trick in the book. Catfishing is where you pretend to be someone you’re not online so that you can trick someone else into doing something. And based on a new report, this is exactly how pro-Assad hackers have been robbing intel from opposition forces: They’ve been posing as hot girls…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

The Army Just Open-Sourced Its Security Software

The U.S. Army is open-sourcing a code it uses to analyze cyberattacks. For the past five years, whenever a Department of Defense network has been compromised, the Army has used the Dshell framework to do forensic analysis on the attacks. This move is meant to encourage developers to add custom modules that’ll help the Army…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

How the Hell Are These Popular Spying Apps Not Illegal?

Here are some sordid scenarios. Your ex-girlfriend can see every time you swipe right while using Tinder. Your former husband is secretly listening to and recording your late-night Skype sessions with your new boyfriend. Some random slippery-dick is jacking off to the naked photos in your private photo library. For millions of people, it’s not…

Privacy & Security Kate Knibbs

Drug Dealers Are Using Nokia Dumbphones To Stay Ahead Of “The Feds”

According to a story from the UK edition of Vice (a story which, I hasten to add, relies on a source named ‘K2’ and should therefore be taken with the requisite gallon of salt), drug dealers in the fair city of Birmingham have turned to dumphones in an attempt to evade the police. The particular…

Privacy & Security Chris Mills

New Linux Bug Could Cause “a Lot of Collateral Damage on the Internet”

Linux users around the world are scrambling to update their operating systems, as a new flaw known as GHOST has been shown to have the potential to cause “a lot of collateral damage on the Internet.” The new bug—which gets its name from the gethostbyname functions that are used to trigger it—could allow hackers to…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

New Malware Can Bring Down Drones Mid-Flight

It’s easy to forget that drones are essentially flying computers. And as autonomous flight features become the new standard, drones are quickly becoming computers that think for themselves—which is exactly why Maldrone is such scary software. Maldrone bills itself as the “first backdoor for drones.” Developed by security researcher Rahul Sasi, this malware tricks a…

Privacy & Security Adam Clark Estes

Delta’s Facebook Page Just Wants To Talk About Bl0wjobs Right Now

Report Finds Anti-Hacking Car Security “Inconsistent and Haphazard”

Get 2GB Extra Google Drive Space Just By Checking Your Security Settings

A Researcher Just Published 10 Million Real Passwords and Usernames

A New Government Agency Will Fight Digital Terrorism

Beware: Anthem Hack Victims Are Getting Bombarded by Phishing Scams

The Sony Hack’s Banal Reality: Paper Memos, BlackBerries, and Takeout

Why So Many Hackers Are Going After the Health Care Industry

The World’s Email Encryption Relies on a Guy Who Is Going Broke

Your Passport’s Complex Security Tech, Explained By Forgery Pros

Here’s Why Your Bank Account Is Less Secure Than Your Gmail

Some Stock Broker Lost $75,000 To Hackers Over One Email

This Tiny Key-Code Flash Drive PIN Protects Your Files—for a Price

Obama’s Latest NSA “Reform” Is Predictably Weak

Hackers Posed as Hot Girls on Skype to Steal Intel From Syrian Rebels

The Army Just Open-Sourced Its Security Software

How the Hell Are These Popular Spying Apps Not Illegal?

Drug Dealers Are Using Nokia Dumbphones To Stay Ahead Of “The Feds”

New Linux Bug Could Cause “a Lot of Collateral Damage on the Internet”

New Malware Can Bring Down Drones Mid-Flight

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