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Hackers Found a Way to Open Any of 3 Million Hotel Keycard Locks in Seconds

By Andy Greenberg — March 21st 2024 at 14:00
The company behind the Saflok-brand door locks is offering a fix, but it may take months or years to reach some hotels.
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Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies

By Matt Burgess — March 20th 2024 at 18:25
Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies may get your data from some of the most popular sites online.
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Glassdoor Wants to Know Your Real Name

By Amanda Hoover — March 20th 2024 at 09:00
Anonymous, candid reviews made Glassdoor a powerful place to research potential employers. A policy shift requiring users to privately verify their real names is raising privacy concerns.
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How to Emulate a Ransomware Attack

By /u/pracsec — March 19th 2024 at 21:51

I made a post that goes through the details and thought process behind writing a ransomware payload for training purposes. It goes over how the entire killchain works and how each component is written as well as defense evasion techniques employed throughout the process. Finally, it goes over how to automate the killchain so that it is reliable and repeatable.

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Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drive

By Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts — March 16th 2024 at 13:00
Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator reveals that popular safes contain secret backdoors.
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Sinking Section 702 Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat

By Dell Cameron — March 15th 2024 at 17:25
For months, US lawmakers have examined every side of a historic surveillance debate. With the introduction of the SAFE Act, all that’s left to do now is vote.
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The ‘Emergency Powers’ Risk of a Second Trump Presidency

By Thor Benson — March 13th 2024 at 17:42
Every US president has the ability to invoke “emergency powers” that could give an authoritarian leader the ability to censor the internet, restrict travel, and more.
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There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764

By Ali Winston — March 13th 2024 at 12:00
A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
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Porn Sites Need Age-Verification Systems in Texas, Court Rules

By Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica — March 13th 2024 at 09:00
The US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has vacated an injunction against an age-verification requirement to view internet porn in Texas.
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US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying

By Dell Cameron — March 12th 2024 at 19:14
A closed-door presentation for House lawmakers late last year portrayed American anti-war protesters as having possible ties to Hamas in an effort to kill privacy reforms to a major US spy program.
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Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria

By Andy Greenberg — March 12th 2024 at 04:03
Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executive, Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held in Abuja without passports for two weeks.
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The 4 Big Questions the Pentagon’s New UFO Report Fails to Answer

By Garrett M. Graff — March 11th 2024 at 17:52
The Pentagon says it’s not hiding aliens, but it stops notably short of saying what it is hiding. Here are the key questions that remain unanswered—some answers could be weirder than UFOs.
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