Watch Robert Mueller’s Statement on the Russia Investigation
Special counsel Robert Mueller is making his first public remarks since the release of his report in April.
Source: Wired – Watch
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AuthorIssie Lapowsky
Political Parties Still Have Cybersecurity Hygiene Problems
Three years after the DNC hack, a new report finds that political parties around the world have ongoing security flaws that leave them
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Third-Party Apps Exposed Over 540 Million Facebook Records
A cybersecurity firm found two different third-party Facebook apps left millions of records about users sitting unprotected on Amazon’s servers.
Source: Wired
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New Film Shows How Bellingcat Cracks the Web's Toughest Cases
*Truth in a Post Truth World* takes a closer look at a team of remarkably resourceful investigative journalists.
Source: Wired – New
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States Need Way More Money to Fix Crumbling Voting Machines
“We are driving the same car in 2019 that we were driving in 2004, and the maintenance costs are mounting,” one South Carolina
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House Probes Cambridge Analytica on Russia and WikiLeaks
The Democrats’ sweeping new investigation into Trump includes the now-defunct consulting firm better known for misusing the Facebook data of tens of millions
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NATO Group Catfished Soldiers to Prove a Point About Privacy
With $60 and a few fake Facebook accounts, researchers were able to identify service members in a military exercise, track their movement, and
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Trump Declared an Emergency Based on Data That Doesn’t Exist
As he declared a national emergency Friday, President Trump repeatedly dismissed statistics and reports produced by his own government.
Source: Wired –
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1 in 3 Americans Suffered Severe Online Harassment in 2018
And roughly 80 percent of Americans say tech companies should do more to prevent it, according to a new survey from the Anti-Defamation
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Senators Grill Facebook, Google, and Apple Over Invasive Apps
The lawmakers want more information about Facebook’s Project Atlas program, which collected data from teens and sidestepped device makers’ privacy policies.
Source: Wired
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