Ahead of his 2019 Black Hat USA talk, cybersecurity luminary Bruce Schneier explains why it’s so important for tech experts to be actively involved in setting public policy.
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Black Hat Q&A: Bruce Schneier Calls For Public-Interest Technologists
Ahead of his 2019 Black Hat USA talk, cybersecurity luminary Bruce Schneier explains why it’s so important for tech experts to be actively involved in setting public policy.
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Sajid Javid announces overhaul of espionage and treason laws
New bill needed to tackle hostile activity by Russia and others, says home secretary
Hostile state actors – spies, assassins or hackers directed by the government of another country – are to be targeted by refreshed espionage and treason laws, the home secretary has announced.
In a speech to security officials in central London, Sajid Javid revealed plans to publish a new espionage bill to tackle increased hostile state activity from the countries including but not limited to Russia.
Related: How worried should we be about Huawei? – podcast
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Facebook bans accounts of fake news firm
It’s not clear who paid Archimedes Group for its reality-warping campaigns, but it’s clear disinformation is now a global scourge.
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Bots rigged Russian finale of ‘The Voice Kids’ talent show
It turns out that robo-dialed calls accounted for 56.5% of the phone-in vote for the millionaire’s daughter.
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Monday review – the hot 20 stories of the week
It was a week of patches – from a severe Linux kernel flaw to a new ‘wormable’ Windows bug, here’s a roundup of the week’s top stories.
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Keeping Passwords Simple
We know at times this whole password thing sounds really complicated. Wouldn’t be great if there was a brain dead way you could keep passwords simple and secure at the same time? Well, it’s not nearly as hard as you think. Here are three tips to keeping passwords super simple while keeping your accounts super secure.
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Nothing but the truth: the legacy of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
Every generation turns to it in times of political turmoil, and this extract from a new book about the novel examines its relevance in the age of fake news and Trump
Read other extracts from the book:
• David Bowie’s Orwell: how Nineteen Eighty-Four shaped Diamond Dogs
• ‘He typed in bed in his dressing gown’: how Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four
December 1948. A man sits at a typewriter, in bed, on a remote island, fighting to complete the book that means more to him than any other. He is terribly ill. The book will be finished and, a year or so later, so will the man.
January 2017. Another man stands before a crowd, which is not as large as he would like, in Washington DC, taking the oath of office as the 45th president of the United States of America. His press secretary says that it was the “largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period – both in person and around the globe”. Asked to justify such a preposterous lie, the president’s adviser describes the statement as “alternative facts”. Over the next four days, US sales of the dead man’s book will rocket by almost 10,000%, making it a No 1 bestseller.
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May I have a word about… Pegasus spyware | Jonathan Bouquet
Is the powerful virus that infected WhatsApp a flying horse or a Trojan horse? Don’t ask the woman who developed it
The unsavoury revelations about the hacking of WhatsApp by software developed by Israeli company, NSO Group, raised some interesting imagery. NSO has developed a powerful smartphone virus called Pegasus, described by NSO co-founder Shalev Hulio as the company’s Trojan horse that could be sent “flying through the air” to infiltrate devices.
Right, let’s get this straight. Pegasus was the son of mortal Medusa and Poseidon, god of the sea. Pegasus and his brother Chrysaor were born from the blood of their beheaded mother, who was tricked and killed by Perseus. Pegasus was represented as a kind-hearted, gentle creature, somewhat naive but always eager to help.
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[webapps] Interspire Email Marketer 6.20 – ‘surveys_submit.php’ Remote Code Execution
Interspire Email Marketer 6.20 – ‘surveys_submit.php’ Remote Code Execution
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