Election Insecurity
Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election
A top-secret National Security Agency report details a months-long Russian hacking effort against the U.S. election infrastructure.
Sam Biddle
Sam Biddle is a technology reporter focusing on issues of surveillance, privacy, and corporate power. He was previously a senior writer at Gawker, and his work has also appeared in GQ, Vice, and the New York Times magazine, among other outlets.
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Facebook Won’t Say If It Will Use Your Brain Activity for Advertisements
A forthcoming mental-input system from Facebook assumes that if you sent a thought to the speech center of your brain, you want to share it.
Feds Hunted Down An Undocumented Immigrant Using Controversial Phone Tracker
By using a so-called Stingray, immigration agents homed in on the location of a restaurant worker — an apparent first.
The Real Roots of the Worldwide Ransomware Outbreak: Militarism and Greed
Microsoft is right to blame the NSA for the WannaCry malware outbreak, but they're not blameless either.
Leaked NSA Malware Is Helping Hijack Computers Around the World
A large-scale digital infestation used leaked NSA malware to spread itself across the internet today.
Snowden Archive
NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-breaking Computer Project to Entire Internet
IBM's confidential "WindsorGreen" was detailed in documents exposed via an apparent backup drive.
There's Nothing Apple's CEO Cares About More Than Not Paying Taxes
The company is using a $1 billion U.S. jobs pledge as a way to promote an enormous tax break for itself.
Stop Using Unroll.me, Right Now. It Sold Your Data to Uber.
The company, which helps people manage their email subscriptions, says “we can do better” after reportedly selling anonymized emails to Uber.
Border Agency Under Investigation for Trying to Unmask Anonymous Twitter Account
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating demands by its customs agency for the information about the people behind a "rogue" Twitter account.
Leaked NSA Malware Threatens Windows Users Around the World
More than half of all desktop computers may be vulnerable to the hacking tools, some of which exploit unpatched vulnerabilities.