Credit to Author: Morgan Meaker| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:25:54 +0000
A controversial new surveillance system in Paris foreshadows a future where there are too many CCTV cameras for humans to physically watch.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:00:00 +0000
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a 3,000-account network on GitHub that is manipulating the platform and spreading ransomware and info stealers.
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Credit to Author: Brian Merchant| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
A former Google engineer has built a search engine, webXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.”
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:00:00 +0000
The code, the first of its kind, was used to sabotage a heating utility in Lviv at the coldest point in the year—what appears to be yet another innovation in Russia’s torment of Ukrainian civilians.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
The DOD wants to refurbish ICBM silos that give it the ability to end civilization. But these missiles are useless as weapons, and their other main purpose—attracting an enemy’s nuclear strikes—serves no end.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: The FBI unlocks the Trump shooter’s phone, a security researcher gets legal threats for exposing hackable traffic lights, and more.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:19:42 +0000
Swindlers are spinning up bogus websites in an attempt to dupe people with “CrowdStrike support” scams following the security firm’s catastrophic software update.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:46:19 +0000
A defective CrowdStrike kernel driver sent computers around the globe into a reboot death spiral, taking down air travel, hospitals, banks, and more with it. Here’s how that’s possible.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:40:01 +0000
A software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally.
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Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman, Andrew Couts| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:02:36 +0000
The Republican VP nominee’s Venmo network reveals connections ranging from the architects of Project 2025 to enemies of Donald Trump—and the populist’s close ties to the very elites he rails against.
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