Enlarge / FBI Director Chrisopher Wray speaking at a press conference in Washington, DC, on October 7. reader comments 125 with 56 posters participating Share this story We now have less than two weeks to go before the federal voting deadline for the presidential election on November 3, and basically everything is, as many expected, ..
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Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) A security researcher reportedly logged in to President Trump’s Twitter account last week by guessing the password—it was “maga2020!”—and then alerted the US government that Trump needed to upgrade his Twitter security practices. Security researcher Victor Gevers reportedly guessed Trump’s password on the fifth attempt and was dismayed that the president ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty Images reader comments 84 with 68 posters participating Share this story Streaming platform Twitch this week surprised many of its users when it sent out a huge batch of copyright takedown emails. These messages not only didn’t tell streamers what supposedly infringing content they posted, but it also said that Twitch ..
reader comments 82 with 64 posters participating Share this story The Federal Communications Commission’s top lawyer today explained the FCC’s theory of why it can grant President Donald Trump’s request for a new interpretation of a law that provides legal protection to social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Critics of FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s ..
reader comments 6 with 5 posters participating Share this story Operators of Trickbot—a for-hire botnet that has infected more than 1 million devices since 2016—are looking for new ways to stay afloat after Microsoft and a host of industry partners took coordinated action to disrupt it last week. In an update published on Tuesday, Microsoft ..
Enlarge / If the company got broken up, maybe each business would take a different color with them when they go. reader comments 87 with 64 posters participating, including story author Share this story The Justice Department today filed a landmark antitrust case against Google. The hotly anticipated, long-awaited lawsuit accuses Google of using its ..
Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on December 14, 2017, in Washington, DC, the day of the FCC’s vote to repeal net neutrality rules. reader comments 131 with 73 posters participating Share this story Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has turned the FCC into “a political appendage of President Trump’s campaign” by aiding Trump’s ..
reader comments 95 with 59 posters participating Share this story Six men accused of carrying out some of the world’s most destructive hacks—including the NotPetya disk wiper and power grid attacks that knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians—have been indicted in US federal court. The indictment said that all six men are ..
Aurich Lawson / Getty reader comments 207 with 95 posters participating Share this story A few dozen QAnon and 8chan-related sites were knocked offline temporarily yesterday when a DDoS-protection vendor disabled their access, according to an article by security reporter Brian Krebs. The websites—with names like 8kun.net, 8kun.top, 8chan.se, and qanonbin.com—are connected to the Internet ..
Getty Images | Peter Dazeley reader comments 121 with 56 posters participating Share this story Twitter has changed its policy on sharing hacked materials after facing criticism of its decision to block users from tweeting links to a New York Post article that contained Hunter Biden emails allegedly retrieved from a computer left at a ..
