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American Feds Still Trying to Determine How Screwed They Are After Massive SolarWinds Hack
A cyberattack that began by targeting an IT firm used by numerous federal U.S. government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and other high-value targets is shaping up to be a historic event.
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The Net Is Somehow Both Outdated and Prescient
The Net, starring a post-Speed Sandra Bullock, was made in 1995, so it’s a given the technology it depicts will look outdated 25 years later. But some of the broader ideas the film pokes into — amid many, many, many scenes of Bullock’s character being chased around by bad guys — are actually surprisingly insightful.
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Trump’s WeChat and TikTok App Store Bans Are a Cybersecurity Nightmare
The Trump administration has barely even bothered to back up its case that its use of emergency powers to strong-arm Beijing-based ByteDance into selling TikTok’s U.S. operations to an American company is based on cybersecurity concerns. It’s actually setting the stage for a meltdown of its own making.
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Millions of Dave Users’ Personal Data Is Up for Grabs on a Hacking Forum
Since the overdraft-protection app Dave rolled out back in 2018, it’s racked up a hefty cash valuation, backing from Mark Cuban, and, uh, Diplo. It also brought on some 7 million cash-happy users. Now, it looks like most of them have their data up for grabs on the open web.