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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 21:19:17 +0000
The special counsel’s indictments have so far stopped short of tying Trump and his associates to a broader conspiracy, blanks that will eventually get filled in.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:07:52 +0000
Going digital could make the 2020 census more inclusive and efficient, but experts fear the Census Bureau is also opening itself up to new risks.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 03:34:00 -0800
Apple takes privacy very seriously. It takes its leadership in that care seriously, and getting rid of the voluntary ‘Do Not Track’ setting in its Safari browser is the right decision.
Apple introduced support for Do Not Track (DNT) in iOS 7, but removed the feature in Safari 12.1.
The problem with DNT is that the signal it sends to websites, analytics firms, plug-in makers and ad networks is a voluntary request, and can be ignored.
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800
This conglomerate is structured as several smaller companies, with a big central IT organization plus individual IT groups in some of the companies, reports an IT pilot fish there.
“An IT staffer from one of the companies loaded a password cracker and proceeded to crack the Windows NT servers,” fish says. “He sent out emails bragging about how insecure NT was and giving the NT team a hard time.”
Fish isn’t on the NT team, but he and his security co-workers decide to strike back on behalf of their colleagues — and they do it through the central IT audit group, to make sure it’s all above board.
First, they supply the audit people with a list of more than 100 Unix servers, and get them to pick a server at random. Amazingly, the audit group picks the only server on the list that belongs to the company where the NT attack originated.
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 17:07:52 +0000
Going digital could make the 2020 census more inclusive and efficient, but experts fear the Census Bureau is also opening itself up to new risks.
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Credit to Author: BRUCE SCHNEIER| Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 14:00:00 +0000
Opinion: Cryptocurrencies are useless. Blockchain solutions are frequently much worse than the systems they replace. Here’s why.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:00:00 +0000
“Password Checkup” isn’t a password manager but a simple tool that warns you if you’re using a password that’s been exposed in data breaches.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Igor Kuksov| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:58:47 +0000
We explain how ultrasound and audio recordings hidden in background noise can be used to control voice assistants.
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