Year: 2019
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week’s roundup has a Roger Stone gag order checker, how Facebook plans to screw creators with its own version of Patreon, TurboTax is hacked, new info on foiling facial recognition, suppressed FCC net neutrality logs obtained, Valerie Plame’s spy convention … and more. And we thought eating Tide Pods was… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week’s roundup has the Roger Stone WikiLeaks show (via Russian satellite), gross bomb threat skids busted by a breach, China’s horrifying facial recognition genocide tool exposed, Apple sued over 2FA inconvenience, bad news for MalwareTech, smoke damage and hard drives … and so much more. Maybe lying under oath is… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week’s roundup brings the drama: we have a researcher assaulted for reporting serious security issues, a sweet pothead murdered by script kiddies, Skype is outing your contacts, effects of the cyber shutdown begin appearing … and much more. For the years that I’ve been covering hacking and infosec, I’ve heard… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week’s roundup includes a cyberpunk game for the ages, a hefty sentence for SIM hijackers, that story about Russian hackers and Mueller evidence, Ajit Pai getting a well-deserved loss, and more. Do you want to play a game? Spinnortality, a game available on Steam, is perhaps a bit too real… Read more…
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How sex censorship killed the internet we love
Originally published in Engadget. Can’t even read it for the articles anymore. Illustration by Koren Shadmi When was the last time you thought of the internet as a weird and wonderful place? I can feel my anxiety climbing as I try to find current news stories about sex. Google News shows one lonely result for… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week’s roundup includes Apple’s big FaceTime FacePalm, the RussiaLeaks Julian Assange wouldn’t publish, the WikiLeaks attempt to get ahead of Roger Stone’s indictment, France goes all-in on hack attacks, a very cute deer tries to hack the planet, and much more. Story of the day: I’m calling it FacePalm. Apple… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week’s roundup includes a brain fungus for your Alexa, the hitman busted by his FitBit, what to do when you find a spy device hooked up to your network, Russia making moves on Facebook and Twitter data, a big scary problem emerging with Nest security, hacker access to US news… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. Obviously some time traveler screwed up the present, but now we’re battle-tested. Onward: This week’s brief has the implosion of El Chapo’s personal black hat hacker, a win for TouchID rights with cops, a local Facebook exec got SWATted, Amazon Ring video feeds were exposed, we get a look at scammer… Read more…
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Cybersecurity Roundup
Originally published on Patreon. This week’s brief has Assange policing journalists’ language, a bogglingly complex and large attack on every non-fascist German politician, the shutdown’s bad news for US cybersecurity, House Republicans got text-catfished, and much more. Julian Assange is not, to clarify, Harry Potter On Sunday, Reuters reported that WikiLeaks sent an email to… Read more…
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Listen to my new book: A Fish Has No Word for Water
Originally published on Patreon. I just finished writing a book about San Francisco. And homeless youth. And punk, the AIDS crisis, and Silicon Valley. It’s called “A Fish Has No Word for Water.” Interested in this before it comes out? You can be among the first. I’m doing a last-stage fundraising push on Patreon while… Read more…