Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories
SecuritySecurity / Cyberattacks and Hacks July 29, 2020 0
Over the past few years, online disinformation has taken evolutionary leaps forward, with the Internet Research Agency pumping out artificial outrage on social media and hackers leaking documents—both real and fabricated—to suit their narrative. More recently, Eastern Europe has faced a broad campaign that takes fake news ops to... Read more
9 Tips to Keep Your Cloud Storage Safe and Secure
SecuritySecurity / PrivacySecurity / Security Advice July 26, 2020 0
With cloud storage now so tightly integrated into desktop and mobile operating systems, we’re all syncing more data to and from the cloud than ever before: our photos, videos, documents, passwords, music, and more. There are plenty of benefits to having access to all of your data anywhere and... Read more
Twitter Cracks Down on QAnon. Your Move, Facebook
SecuritySecurity / National Security July 23, 2020 0
In its early days, Twitter referred to itself as the “free speech wing of the free speech party.” The quote might not have been totally serious, but for years it rang true: its pseudonymous accounts and permissive rules gave the platform an anything-goes sensibility. A few years and high-profile... Read more
How Two-Factor Authentication Keeps Your Accounts Safe
SecuritySecurity / Security Advice July 13, 2020 0
If you want to keep your online accounts safe, adding two-factor authentication (2FA) is the single most important step you can take. While no security measure is 100 percent hackproof, 2FA is going to go a long way to locking down access to your important accounts. As the name... Read more
Dating Apps Exposed 845GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More
SecuritySecurity / Security News June 15, 2020 0
It’s painfully common for data to be exposed online. But just because it happens so often that doesn’t make it any less dangerous. Especially when that data comes from a slew of dating apps that cater to specific groups and interests. Security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar were... Read more
How to Clean Up Your Old Posts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
SecuritySecurity / Privacy June 14, 2020 0
The freemium TweetDelete on the web is another popular and easy-to-use option. Plug it into your Twitter account, and you can choose to delete tweets that are older than one week, two weeks, one month, two months, three months, six months, or a year. You can also remove tweets... Read more
One afternoon in late September 2012, Paul Calder Le Roux was sitting in a hotel room in Monrovia, Liberia, working out the final details of a large cocaine and methamphetamine deal with the head of a Colombian drug cartel. As the pair discussed prices and drop-off points, Le Roux—a... Read more
How Covid-19 Contact Tracing Works on Your Phone
GearGear / How To and AdviceSecurity June 8, 2020 0
Our smartphones are set to play a significant role in helping navigate our way out of the coronavirus pandemic, with countries and companies around the world preparing their own apps as part of a track-and-trace system to keep infection levels low. Google and Apple don’t work together on much,... Read more
Facebook ‘Manage Activity’ Is a Long Overdue Privacy Feature
SecuritySecurity / Security News June 2, 2020 0
Throughout its 16 years of existence, Facebook has struggled to provide the privacy controls users really want and need to safeguard the data they post to the platform. It’s been a challenging project, with plenty of major detours along the way. But today Facebook is announcing a new tool... Read more
This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
BusinessBusiness / Artificial IntelligenceSecurity June 1, 2020 0
Late last year, David Haynes, a security engineer at internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, found himself gazing at a strange image. “It was pure gibberish,” he says. “A whole bunch of gray and black pixels, made by a machine.” He declined to share the image, saying it would be a... Read more