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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 21:36:52 +0000
By involving ethicists and social scientists in its product-building process, Facebook could better anticipate problems before they fester. The post The One Hire Facebook Really Needs to Make to Curb Violence appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 21:22:15 +0000
A sneaky new phishing scam has taken Gmail inboxes by storm. The post Don’t Open That Google Doc Unless You’re Positive It’s Legit appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 17:08:40 +0000
The most candid look yet at what prompted James Comey to make the Clinton email investigation public right before the election. The post FBI Boss Comey Finally Explains His Infamous Clinton Letter appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Matt Hamblen| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 11:00:00 -0700
There are now so many cyberattacks that many enterprises simply accept that hackers and bad actors will find ways to break into their systems.
A strategy some large businesses have developed over the past two years has been to quickly identify and isolate these attacks, possibly by shutting down part of a system or network so the hackers won’t get days or weeks to root around and grab sensitive corporate data.
This enterprise focus on rapid detection and response to various attacks on networks and computers doesn’t replace conventional security tools to prevent attacks. Instead, businesses are relying on both prevention software and detection software.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 12:00:59 +0000
Researchers were able to take control of a 220-pound robotic arm to damage the products it manufactures—or the person that operates it. The post Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Darlene Storm| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 07:15:00 -0700
Despite the USA Freedom Act of 2015, the NSA collected 151 million records of Americans’ phone calls last year, even though it had obtained warrants from the FISA court to spy on only 42 people suspected of having ties to terrorism. The NSA also complied with requests from government officials to reveal the identities of 1,934 U.S. persons ensnared in the foreign surveillance.
The annual report, issued by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, provides the first assessment of the effectiveness of the 2015 USA Freedom Act which was meant to limit dragnet surveillance of millions of Americans’ phone records. In 2016, 151,230,968 was the total estimated number of Americans’ call details records, meaning metadata about calls such as the number of the caller and recipient as well as the duration and time of the call, which the NSA received from providers and then stored in NSA repositories.
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In the latest episode of Security Sessions, CSO Editor-in-Chief Joan Goodchild speaks via Skype with Michael A. Davis, the CTO of behavioral analytics company CounterTack. The two discuss why machine learning is so important to CSOs and CISOs, even if they themselves are not particularly investing in such technology for their own security systems.
Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 12:00:30 +0000
Discuss cyber attacks involving robots and many people might think you’re talking about the latest Hollywood blockbuster to hit the screens. The reality, however, is that industrial robotic systems now form a vital cog in the manufacturing process of everything from silicon chips to cars and even glassware. A new Trend Micro report, Demonstrating Industrial…