It’s Time to Log Off
Credit to Author: Thor Benson| Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000
There’s a devastating amount of heavy news these days. Psychology experts say you need to know your limits—and when to put down the phone.
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DOJ Charges Binance With Vast Money-Laundering Scheme and Sanctions Violations
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 20:49:25 +0000
From Russia to Iran, the feds have charged Binance with conducting well over $1 billion in transactions with sanctioned countries and criminal actors.
Read MoreSecretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:25:08 +0000
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
Read MoreThe Startup That Transformed the Hack-for-Hire Industry
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000
Plus: The FBI’s baffling inaction on a ransomware group, a massive breach of Danish electric utilities, and more.
Read MoreInside the Race to Secure the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000
Beyond the blinding speeds and sharp turns on new terrain, the teams at this weekend’s big F1 race are preparing for another kind of danger.
Read MoreUS Congress Report Calls for Privacy Reforms After FBI Surveillance ‘Abuses’
Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:38:35 +0000
A new report by an oversight committee in the US House of Representatives says the FBI has routinely violated rules governing FISA’s Section 702 surveillance program and must be reined in.
Read MoreRunning Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 16:00:00 +0000
Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit surveillance business models it competes against.
Read MoreA Spy Agency Leaked People’s Data Online—Then the Data Was Stolen
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000
The National Telecommunication Monitoring Center in Bangladesh exposed a database to the open web. The types of data leaked online are extensive.
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