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Hackers Stole U.S. Customs And Border Protection’s Traveller Photos
Licence plate images and photos of individuals who travelled in and out of the United States were taken in a malicious hack impacting U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), according to a report in the Washington Post. The agency learned last month about the breach, which took place thanks to a hack of an unnamed…
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Devin Nunes’ Lawyers Falsely Claim Reporter Bolded ‘Cocaine’ And ‘Woman’ In Tweet To Be Extra Mean
California Representative Devin Nunes, one of the president’s biggest yes-men in Congress and recent filer of a lawsuit against Twitter and several of its users, including the account @DevinCow and Republican strategist Liz Mair, over mean things said about him has launched yet another lawsuit. This one again targets Mair, as well as the McClatchy Company,…
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Report: All Intel Processors Made In The Last Decade Might Have A Massive Security Flaw
There’s small screwups and big screwups. Here is tremendously huge screwup: Virtually all Intel processors produced in the last decade have a major security hole that could allow “normal user programs – from database applications to JavaScript in web browsers – to discern to some extent the layout or contents of protected kernel memory areas,”…
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Panicked Secret Service Says It Lost Encrypted Laptop But It’s Fine, Everything’s Fine
Today, a Brooklyn-based Secret Service agent learned what those of us without security clearance have known for years: Don’t leave a laptop in your car if you don’t want it to be stolen.