Enlarge / FBI agents ran queries across thousands of US individuals, including potential sources and anyone with access to FBI facilities, against raw metadata from FISA-authorized bulk collection databases. Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 46 with 42 posters participating Share this story In an October 2018 ruling unsealed and posted on October 8, 2019 ..
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reader comments 106 with 84 posters participating Share this story If ever there was a surefire way to sour users against a two-factor authentication system that was already highly flawed, Twitter has found it. On Tuesday, the social media site said that it used phone numbers and email addresses provided for 2FA protection to tailor ..
Enlarge / A surveillance camera on display in Hamburg, Germany, in January 2019. reader comments 131 with 69 posters participating Share this story Much in the same way that food labels are now required to disclose the potential presence of allergens such as peanuts, one Senator is proposing a law that would require tech companies ..
Enlarge / Ng “Blitzchung” Wai Chung declares his support for Hong Kong while two announcers duck behind their desks. reader comments 312 with 200 posters participating Share this story Blizzard has stripped a Hong Kong professional Hearthstone player of his tournament prize money and banned him from tournament play for a year after he expressed support ..
Enlarge / Adobe Creative Cloud application icons. Getty Images | Bloomberg reader comments 224 with 135 posters participating Share this story Adobe is deactivating all user accounts in Venezuela, saying that the action is necessary to comply with an executive order issued by President Donald Trump. The action affects both free and paid accounts. In ..
Enlarge / Cellphones charging in the Philippines at a station run by generator in 2013, while power was out in the wake of tyhpoon Haiyan. reader comments 116 with 65 posters participating, including story author Share this story Privacy, it seems, is increasingly a luxury reserved for those who can afford it. “Free” services are ..
reader comments 63 with 47 posters participating Share this story Three Alabama hospitals have paid a ransomware demand to the criminals who waged a crippling malware attack that’s forcing the hospitals to turn away all but the most critical patients, the Tuscaloosa News reported. As reported last Tuesday, ransomware shut down the hospitals’ computer systems ..
Enlarge / The US, UK, and Australia want Facebook to hold off on end-to-end encrypting Messenger until they have a way to inject themselves into the conversation. picture alliance / Getty Images reader comments 141 with 108 posters participating Share this story Here we go again. US Attorney General William Barr is leading a charge ..
reader comments 82 with 45 posters participating Share this story Hackers backed by the Iranian government recently tried to hack email accounts used by the campaign of a US presidential candidate, a Microsoft official said on Friday. The “Phosphorous” hackers, as Microsoft has named the group, targeted the unidentified campaign by attempting to access email ..
Enlarge / Elon Musk. reader comments 208 with 120 posters participating Share this story Last year, Vernon Unsworth, a cave explorer who advised on the rescue of kids trapped in a Thailand cave, got in a spat with Elon Musk. Musk labeled Unsworth a “pedo guy” in a tweet—and, in an ill-considered email to a reporter, later ..
