Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator reveals that popular safes contain secret backdoors.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 17:25:42 +0000
For months, US lawmakers have examined every side of a historic surveillance debate. With the introduction of the SAFE Act, all that’s left to do now is vote.
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Microsoft this week pushed out 61 Patch Tuesday updates with no reports of public disclosures or other zero-days affecting the larger ecosystem (Windows, Office, .NET). Though there are three updated packages from February, they’re just informational changes with no further action is required.
The team at Readiness has crafted this helpful infographic outlining the risks associated with each of the March updates.
Credit to Author: Thor Benson| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 17:42:05 +0000
Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more.
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Credit to Author: Ali Winston| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000
A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
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Credit to Author: Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:00:00 +0000
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has vacated an injunction against an age-verification requirement to view internet porn in Texas.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:14:20 +0000
A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible ties to Hamas in an effort to kill privacy reforms to a major US spy program.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:03:36 +0000
Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 17:52:36 +0000
The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered—some answers could be weirder than UFOs.
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Credit to Author: Amanda Hoover, Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:38:41 +0000
Starting at the end of April, Airbnb will no longer allow hosts to have security cameras inside their rental properties, citing a commitment to prioritizing guest privacy.
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