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A Very Dumb Mistake Costs Cryptocurrency Investors Big Time Aug 23, 2017

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The digital financial services developer Enigma prides itself on ultra-secure products. The company's Catalyst platform protects financial info with a cutting-edge combination of blockchain-inspired privacy technology and cryptography. So it comes as no small surprise that on Monday, scammers took over the company's website, mailing lists, and Slack accounts by exploiting some extremely basic security mistakes Enigma had made.

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Breaking Down HBO’s Brutal Month of Hacks Aug 22, 2017

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They say April is the cruelest month, but HBO may beg to differ. The company kicked off August with an apparently massive breach of its servers, in which hackers pilfered everything from full episodes of unreleased shows to sensitive internal documents. Not long after, in separate and distinct incidents, two episodes of Game of Thrones leaked out early. And Thursday, hacker group OurMine hijacked HBO’s main Twitter account, along with those of several HBO shows.

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Tech Has the Tools To Fight Hate. It Just Needs to Use Them Aug 21, 2017

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Say you're a white supremacist who happens to hate Jewish people—or black people, Muslim people, Latino people, take your pick. Today, you can communicate those views online any number of ways without setting off many tech companies' anti–hate speech alarm bells. And that's a problem.

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The Daily Stormer’s Last Defender in Tech Just Dropped It Aug 18, 2017

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The white supremacist site The Daily Stormer has taken a nomadic journey around the web this week, searching for a permanent home after being booted by the hosting and domain registry company GoDaddy. Throughout its bizarre odyssey, though, the infrastructure and web services company Cloudflare has defended the site against cyber attacks, particularly DDoS attacks. Wednesday, Cloudflare finally pulled the plug. Without its protection, The Daily Stormer promptly crashed.

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Trump Cribbed His Charlottesville Press Conference Straight From Fox News Aug 17, 2017

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The schedule for Donald Trump's his first full day back in New York since the start of his presidency entailed walking into the Trump Tower lobby, talking about infrastructure for a few minutes, and immediately re-boarding his golden elevator without taking any questions. Much to Chief of Staff John Kelly's apparent chagrin, that did not happened. Instead, Trump opted to take a few questions after his prepared remarks.

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North Korea Just Took the Nuclear Step Experts Have Dreaded Aug 16, 2017

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North Korea's nuclear and ballistic ambitions have existed for decades; the country conducted its first significant missile test launches in the 1980s, and conducted its first nuclear test in 2006. Now, thanks to a recent surge of development, the intertwined endeavors have both advanced to the point that experts have warned about for years. The worst-case North Korea hypotheticals, in other words, have suddenly become all too real.

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Spies Could Outsmart Free Stingray-Detector Apps Aug 15, 2017

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As smartphone users have become more aware that fake cell phone towers, known as IMSI catchers or stingrays, can spy on them, developers have rushed to offer apps that detect when your phone connects to one. Unfortunately, it seems, those tools aren't as effective as they claim. Watching the watchers turns out to be a complicated business. Researchers from Oxford University and the Technical University of Berlin today plan to present the results of a study of five stingray-detection apps.

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The Attack on Global Privacy Leaves Few Places To Turn Aug 14, 2017

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Digital privacy has had a very bad summer. As China and Russia move to block virtual private network services, well over a billion people face losing their best chance at circumventing censorship laws. First, China asked telecom companies to start blocking user access to VPNs that didn't pass government muster by next February. More recently, Russian president Vladimir Putin signed a law to ban VPNs and other anonymous browsing tools that undermine government censorship.

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You Can't Just Riff About Nukes Aug 11, 2017

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President Trump regularly demonstrates a great capacity for playing fast and loose with the truth. By one calculation, he publicly lied or exaggerated at least once daily during the 40 days following his inauguration. Politicians routinely bend reality or, in some cases, break with it entirely. But there is no precedent for applying such casual disregard to nuclear weapons, as Trump did this week. For good reason.

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HBO Hackers Release Ransom Note and New Trove of Stolen Data Aug 09, 2017

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One week after hackers spilled multiple episodes of unreleased HBO shows and scripts online, the same group has dropped its second trove of purported internal data from the premium network. And this time it's not just nihilistic Game of Thrones spoilers—there's a ransom note, too. The latest leak includes another half-gigabyte sample of the group's stolen digital goods; it claims to have 1.5 terabytes in all.

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