June 26, 2020

REvil gang threaten to auction celebrity data from Mariah Carey, Lebron James, MTV and more

The ransomware gang is threatening to auction celebrities' legal documents stolen from the law firm it paralyzed in May.

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May 17, 2019

Trump seeks tales of social media bias – and your phone number

A tool from the White House invites those who suspect political bias in social media censorship to "share their story with President Trump."

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January 22, 2019

DNC targeted by Russian hackers beyond 2018 midterms, it claims

The Democratic National Committee has filed a civil complaint accusing Russia of trying to hack its computers as recently as November 2018.

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January 09, 2019

Politicians who block social media users are violating First Amendment

The difference between a personal vs. an official social media account was at the crux of the case decided on Monday.

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October 17, 2018

Donald Daters app for pro-Trump singles exposes users’ data at launch

A security researcher found a publicly exposed Firebase data repository that was hardcoded in the dating app.

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October 12, 2018

What Kanye West can teach us about passcodes

Pulling out an iPhone XS to show the assembled throng a picture of the hydrogen-powered aircraft that “our president should be flying in,” West casually unlocked it using the passcode ‘000000’.

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August 28, 2018

NSA leaker Reality Winner gets 63 months in jail

Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked sensitive information to the Intercept last year, was sentenced to 63 months in prison last week along with three years of supervised release.

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July 17, 2018

Twitter shutters accounts linked to US election hacking

The move comes after special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 Russians believed to have used the accounts as fronts in US election hacking.

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March 28, 2018

Cambridge Analytica’s secret coding sauce allegedly leaked

The exposed data, available free by registering an email address, shows CA used software developed by AggregateIQ to sway US elections.

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