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Hacker Lexicon: What Is a Side Channel Attack?
Computers constantly give off more information than you might realize—which hackers can use to pry out their secrets.
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6 years, 3 months ago
How Thousands of Misplaced Emails Took Over This Engineer's Inbox
Kenton Varda gets dozens of messages a day from Spanish-speakers around the world, all thanks to a Gmail address he registered 16 years ago.
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6 years, 3 months ago
A Report Blames ‘CIA Failures’ for the Agency's Worst Hack
A series of WikiLeaks disclosures that exposed a trove of the intelligence organization's secrets could have been avoided, a task force found.
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6 years, 3 months ago
Zoom Reverses Course and Promises End-to-End Encryption for All Users
The video conferencing platform had previously said that only paid accounts would get the feature—a move privacy advocates roundly decried.Â
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6 years, 3 months ago
The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About
Secondary Infektion appears to be a distinct effort from the meddling of the IRA and GRU—and it went undetected for years.
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6 years, 3 months ago
Bot Mafias Have Wreaked Havoc in World of Warcraft Classic
Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy.
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6 years, 3 months ago
Body Cameras Haven't Stopped Police Brutality. Here's Why
Amid worldwide protests over racism and police violence, lawmakers are once again turning to the devices as a tool for reform.
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6 years, 3 months ago
A Legion of Bugs Puts Hundreds of Millions of IoT Devices at Risk
The so-called Ripple20 vulnerabilities affect equipment found in data centers, power grids, and more.
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6 years, 3 months ago
Ex-Ebay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics
Surveillance. Harassment. A live cockroach delivery. US Attorneys have charged six former Ebay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalkin…
6 years, 3 months ago
Coder-Turned-Kingpin Paul Le Roux Gets His Comeuppance
The programmer who became a flagrant drug lord and weapons trafficker was sentenced in New York City to 25 years in prison.
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6 years, 3 months ago