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1. Windows 7 message alerts users to the end of security updates
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Microsoft really, really wants you to know that Windows 7's security updates will end soon. A newly deployed update will warn users that Microsoft will stop providing security updates for the operating ...

2. "Ayn Rand is a Dick" - excerpt from a new book by Mike Monteiro
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

... crappy books about the power of individual achievement while she collected social security and started some pseudo-philosophy called “objectivism”, which can be summed up in five words: I got mine, fuck ...

3. Google Photos flaw let attackers grab users' location data
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Researchers have revealed a now-patched flaw that would allow hackers to track your location history using Google Photos. Ron Masas, from security company Imperva, explains in a blog post that Google Photos ...

4. House chair asks tech CEOs to speak about New Zealand shooting response (updated)
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... of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Bennie Thomps... Read all  ...

5. New Zealand's domestic spies, obsessed with illegally surveilling environmental activists, missed a heavily armed right-wing terrorist
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... global dark money network, and the surveillance the state engaged in helped shield financial criminals from scrutiny. Notably, despite all this surveillance, the NZ security services was either unaware ...

6. Three dead in Netherlands tram shooting
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... a 37-year-old Turkish man named Gokmen Tanis. They issued a photograph of Tanis taken by security camera and warned everyone to stay away from him. 1:40 p.m. EDT Police arrested a suspect. Read the rest ...

7. Majority of London's newly built luxury flats are unsold, raising the spectre of "posh ghost towers"
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... as the people who really need to cash out start to slash their prices. As prices fall, more owners are spooked and sell off, hoping to sell off before prices fall further. More inventory means more insecurity ...

8. Security researchers reveal defects that allow wireless hijacking of giant construction cranes, scrapers and excavators
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... sabotage and injury." The systems use a dog's breakfast of custom codes and command system, with no standardization, let alone basic security. All systems pose some risk of vulnerabilities, but in this ...

9. Parrot Home: Enjoy the Privacy Extras
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LinuxInsider: Parrot offers several options for running a Linux operating system that pays much closer attention to security matters. Read all  ...

10. A critical flaw in Switzerland's e-voting system is a microcosm of everything wrong with e-voting, security practice, and auditing firms
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Switzerland is about to have a national election with electronic voting, overseen by Swiss Post; e-voting is a terrible idea and the general consensus among security experts who don't work for e-voting ...

11. Learn about computer security with the Raspberry Pi and Kali Linux
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Raspberry Pi is a great way to learn about computer security. Read all  ...

12. Security researcher reveals grotesque vulnerabilities in "Yelp-for-MAGA" app and its snowflake owner calls in the FBI
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... defects were revealed in French security researcher Elliot Alderson's Twitter thread. In response, 63Red's owner, Scott Wallace, downplayed the seriousness of the defects in his product and announced ...

13. Man missed doomed Ethiopia flight by 2 minutes
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... hours later, as he was boarding the next flight to Nairobi, two security guards escorted him to the airport’s police station, over his loud protests — he did not want to miss his meetings in Nairobi. But ...

14. Rise of the Surveillance Scooters?
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... the sort of national security threat that requires us to tear-up the Fourth Amendment and destroy the right to privacy. Sadly, Los Angeles Disagrees. Read the rest Read all  ...

15. Soliom Bird S60-Outdoor Wireless Solar Home Security Camera review
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... work towards that goal by finding ways to remove worries, fears, and stresses. One way to do that might be … Soliom Bird S60-Outdoor Wireless Solar Home Security Camera review Read More Read all ...

16. Firefox Send's free encrypted file transfers are now available to all
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Mozilla has made privacy Firefox's calling card, while lambasting companies it believes don't meet the bar on security. Its latest update to its web browser, an end-to-end encrypted file transfer ...

17. Trump administration may monitor social media to catch disability fraud (updated)
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... the social media accounts of Social Security disabilit... Read all  ...

18. Trump asks for $9.6 billion to bolster cybersecurity in 2020 budget
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... also hopes to bolster cybersecurity and NASA exploration mi... Read all  ...

19. Dozens of companies using Box inadvertently shared private data (updated)
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More than 90 companies inadvertently exposed hundreds of thousands of documents and terabytes of data via Box, a cloud-based file-sharing system. Cybersecurity firm Adversis exposed the potential security ...

20. Leaked Chinese database of 1.8 million women includes a field indicating whether they are "BreedReady"
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Security researcher Victor Gevers has discovered an insecure Chinese database of 1.8 million women, aged 15-39, along with phone numbers, GPS coordinates, photo URLs, ID card numbers, marital status, ...

21. Defect in car security system aids carjackers, thieves
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... car from these radio attacks on its security. Pen-Test Partners evaluated several of these systems and found that the two leading models, Pandora and Viper (AKA "Clifford") were very defective, with ...

22. How Walmart Uses a Purple Team to Improve Cyber-Resilience
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eWEEK: Applying a collaborative, yet adversarial model has worked out well for Walmart as it works to reduce risk and improve cyber-security. Read all  ...

23. Get certified in Cisco network security with this course
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Big systems need tight security - and the experts who can implement it. Cisco Networking Systems are the go-to providers for network infrastructure, but maintaining it takes a lot of up-to-date knowledge. ...

24. Palmer Luckey wins secretive Pentagon contract to develop AI for drones
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... at companies that don’t want to work on national security.” In Anduril, Luckey is presenting a company that is unapologetic about its work capturing immigrants or killing people on the battlefield. Read ...