Inside the ‘Election Integrity App’ Built to Purge US Voter Rolls
Credit to Author: Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 15:59:44 +0000
True the Vote’s IV3 app is meant to catch election cheaters. But it has a fundamental flaw.
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The Secret Ballot Is US Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 21:55:25 +0000
Voter intimidation has cropped up in places across the nation, but the voting booth remains the one place where nobody can get to you.
Read MoreIRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:57:55 +0000
A year after a billion-dollar seizure of the dark web market’s crypto, the same agency found a giant trove hidden under a different hacker’s floorboards.
Read MoreTwitter’s Ex-Election Chief Is Worried About the US Midterms
Credit to Author: Chris Stokel-Walker| Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2022 12:00:00 +0000
Edward Perez says that “manufactured chaos” by bad actors will be even riskier thanks to Elon Musk’s own mayhem.
Read MoreTikTok Admits Staff in China Can Access Europeans’ Data
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: Liz Truss’ phone-hacking trouble, Cash App’s sex-trafficking problem, and the rising cost of ransomware.
Read MoreSoccer Fans, You’re Being Watched
Credit to Author: Vas Panagiotopoulos| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Stadiums around the world, including at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, are subjecting spectators to invasive biometric surveillance tech.
Read MoreStopping C2 communications in human-operated ransomware through network protection
Credit to Author: Katie McCafferty| Date: Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:00:00 +0000
Providing advanced protection against increasingly sophisticated human-operated ransomware, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s network protection leverages threat intelligence and machine learning to block command-and-control (C2) communications.
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Read MoreThe Rise of Rust, the ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language That’s Taking Over Tech
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 18:27:26 +0000
Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities. And its adoption can’t come soon enough.
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