The Danger in Assange’s Charges, a Memory Experiment, and More News
DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP/Getty Images New charges against Julian Assange threaten all of the press, scientists have figured out how to alter emotional memories, […]
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The Julian Assange Espionage Act Charges Target Press Freedom
On Thursday, the Department of Justice unsealed new charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Unlike the previous indictment—which focused narrowly on an […]
The Latest Julian Assange Indictment Is an Assault on Press Freedom
On Thursday, the Department of Justice unsealed new charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Unlike the previous indictment—which focused narrowly on an […]
Study: Most enterprise IoT transactions are unencrypted
Of the millions of enterprise-IoT transactions examined in a recent study, the vast majority were sent without benefit of encryption, leaving the […]
Facial Recognition Has Already Reached Its Breaking Point
As facial recognition technologies have evolved from fledgling projects into powerful software platforms, researchers and civil liberties advocates have been issuing warnings […]
Google Has Stored Some Passwords in Plaintext Since 2005
It happened again: Google announced today that it’s the latest tech giant to have accidentally stored user passwords unprotected in plaintext. G […]
Political Parties Still Have Cybersecurity Hygiene Problems
In the three years since Russian operatives breached the servers of the Democratic National Committee and threw presidential politics into a state […]
We Are Tenants on Our Own Devices
A decade ago, Amazon abruptly deleted copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from the Kindles of its American customers. The move instantly evoked […]
Bluetooth’s Complexity Has Become a Security Risk
Bluetooth is the invisible glue that binds devices together. Which means that when it has bugs, it affects everything from iPhones and […]
Google Tracks What You Buy Online With Gmail
The week started out with a bang, or several of them really. Remember Meltdown and Spectre, the vulnerabilities that affected basically every […]