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Hackers Can Tell What Netflix Bandersnatch Choices You Make Apr 24, 2019

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Netflix made a splash when it debuted Black Mirror: Bandersnatch in December, a "choose your own adventure"-style movie that put viewers in charge of their cinematic destiny. It has since invested in even more interactive programming, including a live-action show featuring survivalist Bear Grylls.

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14 Mueller Report Takeaways You Might Have Missed Apr 23, 2019

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Robert Mueller’s final 448-page report on Russian interference in the 2016 election—and Donald Trump’s apparent attempts to obstruct justice along the way—takes some time to read fully. On close examination, it turns out to be a deeply compelling document, full of tantalizing revelations and details. Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada called the Mueller Report “the best book by far on the workings of the Trump presidency.

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Security Roundup: Facebook 'Unintentionally' Collected Email Contacts of 1.5 Million Users Apr 23, 2019

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After months of anticipation and fevered speculation by supporters and critics alike, the public finally laid eyes on the most important release of the past 25 years, its secrets guarded by a famously tight-lipped team up until the very end. That's right, Beyoncé dropped a new album this week. Scholars will analyze its influence for years to come. Robert Mueller's report also came out, at least in redacted form.

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Trump’s Homeland Security Purge Worries Cybersecurity Experts Apr 22, 2019

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This week kicked off a new, chaotic era at the Department of Homeland Security, where the only certainty seems to be the president’s obsession with immigration. As former Customs and Border Protection commissioner and prominent family-separation advocate Kevin McAleenan takes over as acting secretary, it’s fair to wonder what will happen to the rest of DHS’s many essential responsibilities.

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Today’s News: Read the Mueller Report; Change Your Instagram Password Apr 22, 2019

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Tech news you can use, in two minutes or less: The Mueller Report is much worse for Trump than Barr let on The full (but redacted) Mueller Report is finally here, in its 448 pages of glory. There are lots of takeaways, but the bottom line is the report is much more damaging to Trump than Trump-appointed attorney general William Barr initially said.

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The Mueller Report Is Out. Here's Where You Can Read It Apr 19, 2019

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On March 22, special counsel Robert Mueller turned in his long-anticipated report on Russian interference in the 2016 election—and the question of whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice. Now you can read the whole thing for yourself. Or at least what’s left of it, after attorney general William Barr’s redactions. Barr had initially released a brief summary of the report’s key findings in a four-page letter he sent to Congress on March 24.

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Cyberspies Hijacked the Internet Domains of Entire Countries Apr 19, 2019

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The discovery of a new, sophisticated team of hackers spying on dozens of government targets is never good news. But one team of cyberspies has pulled off that scale of espionage with a rare and troubling trick, exploiting a weak link in the internet's cybersecurity that experts have warned about for years: DNS hijacking, a technique that meddles with the fundamental address book of the internet.

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A Top Dark Web Drug Ring Goes Down—Thanks to ATM Withdrawals Apr 18, 2019

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Until a few weeks ago, sinmed was one of the largest drug vendors at Dream Market, the foremost dark web bazaar. It took in millions of dollars shipping fentanyl-laced heroin, methamphetamines, and hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Xanax tablets across the US—until the New York district attorney's office shut it down, and arrested the three men who allegedly ran it. Dark web takedowns happen all the time.

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Google's Making It Easier to Safeguard Sensitive Data Troves Apr 18, 2019

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When Ivan Medvedev joined Google as a privacy engineering manager in 2013, the company had rogue data anxiety. Its user base and set of services had become so massive that it seemed inevitable that sensitive data could accidentally crop up in unexpected places, like customers filing support tickets with more personal information than necessary.

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Mysterious Hackers Hid Their Swiss Army Spyware for 5 Years Apr 17, 2019

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It's not every day that security researchers discover a new state-sponsored hacking group. Even rarer is the emergence of one whose spyware has 80 distinct components, capable of strange and unique cyberespionage tricks—and who's kept those tricks under wraps for more than five years.

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