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Theft from the skies: Could cell phone data theft affect you?
This post was originally published on November 25, 2014. Now that smartphones are everywhere, it’s easy to forget just how remarkable they really are. When you take a moment to think about everythin...
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Just looking? ISPs are watching you browse
You are being watched. From everything you ask Alexa to all your emails and passwords: If you don’t encrypt your traffic, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) can potentially see all of it. What’s...
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Laura Poitras and the Digital Exiles
This post was originally published on November 14, 2014. This year, documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras released what may be her most controversial project yet: Citizenfour. The film focuses on NSA ...
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OS X Yosemite: Are security and privacy the first thought or an afterthought?
Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) has arrived and, according to Apple, it comes with safety. Built right in. The company’s claim that security was “The first thought. Not an afterthought,” is both inter...
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Verizon's 'perma-cookie': Just another example of how ISPs invade, threaten our privacy
**Update: Verizon forced 'supercookies' on all of their customers until March 2015, when several senators raised privacy concerns over the practice. One year later, in March 2016, Verizon agreed to a ...
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Smart meters, dumb security? Hacking the Internet of Things
This post was originally published on October 23, 2014. According to the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change, almost 100,000 smart meters were installed in homes through the second quarter of...
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Soggy cardboard? Dropbox says it wasn’t hacked
This post was originally published on October 17, 2014. Snowden called it, apparently. In a recent interview, the NSA whistleblower warned cloud storage users to avoid Dropbox because the service does...
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New documentary shining light on Snowden: Citizenfour
This post was originally published on October 15, 2014. In May of 2013, few people in the United States — let alone worldwide — knew anything about Edward Snowden. The mild-mannered IT security co...
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BadUSB virus gets badder: New malware threat fix released
This post was originally published on October 13, 2014. When you were younger your mother probably let you play outside all the time but with the understanding that you wouldn't talk to strangers. T...
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PayPal opts into Bitcoin payments via BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin
This post was originally published on October 10, 2014. PayPal recently announced that it is teaming up with three Bitcoin processors – BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin - to enable certain retailers to a...
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