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US House Bans WhatsApp on Government Devices Over Cybersecurity Fears
US Politics · United States

US House Bans WhatsApp on Government Devices Over Cybersecurity Fears

35% Right coverage: 52 sources
Staff must switch to approved apps as part of a broader congressional cybersecurity measures. See the Story
Drug Cartel Hacked FBI Official’s Phone to Track and Kill Informants, Report Says
Security · Mexico City

Drug Cartel Hacked FBI Official’s Phone to Track and Kill Informants, Report Says

45% Center coverage: 9 sources
The Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico hacked the phone of an FBI official investigating kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán as part of a surveillance campaign “to intimidate and/or kill potential sources or cooperating witnesses,” according to a recently published report by the Justice Department. The report, which cited an “individual connected to the cartel,” said a hacker hired by its top brass “offered a menu of services related to exploiting mobi…See the Story
Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections - Schneier on Security

Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections - Schneier on Security

A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative execution was a way to speed up CPUs, and removing those enhancements resulted in significant performance drops. Now, people are rethinking the trade-off. Ubuntu has disabled some protections, resulting in 20% performance boost. After discussion between Intel and Canonical’s secu…Read Article

The Age of Integrity

We need to talk about data integrity. Narrowly, the term refers to ensuring that data isn’t tampered with, either in transit or in storage. Manipulating account balances in bank databases, removing entries from criminal records, and murder by removing notations about allergies from medical records are all integrity attacks. More broadly, integrity refers to ensuring that data is correct and accurate from the point it is collected, through all theSecurity · United StatesSee the Story

Message In A Bubble: Using Physics To Encode Messages In Ice

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Inspired by naturally occurring air bubbles in glaciers, researchers have developed a method to encode messages in ice. Image source They explain  how the team encoded frozen messages in binary and Morse code by manipulating the size and distribution of bubbles in ice. The method could be used to store […]SecuritySee the Story

Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns - Schneier on Security

Dozens of accounts on X that promoted Scottish independence went dark during an internet blackout in Iran. Well, that’s one way to identify fake accounts and misinformation campaigns.Security · IranRead Article

How Cybersecurity Fears Affect Confidence in Voting Systems - Schneier on Security

American democracy runs on trust, and that trust is cracking. Nearly half of Americans, both Democrats and Republicans, question whether elections are conducted fairly. Some voters accept election results only when their side wins. The problem isn’t just political polarization—it’s a creeping erosion of trust in the machinery of democracy itself. Commentators blame ideological tribalism, misinformation campaigns and partisan echo chambers for th…Security · United StatesRead Article

It Took over 100 Years for Humans to See This Squid Alive for the First Time

100% Left coverage: 1 sources
We’ve known about the existence of the rare Antarctic gonate squid since 1898. However, it has taken us over 100 years to actually see this squid alive. The creature dwells far beneath the glaciers of the Antarctic, and has been a long-sought-after discovery for over a century. But it took complete chance for scientists to catch sight of this rare creature for the first time. According to a new report shared by National Geographic, the Antarctic…Security · AntarcticaSee the Story

Record DDoS Pummels Site with Once-Unimaginable 7.3Tbps of Junk Traffic

67% Center coverage: 6 sources
Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, being reported Friday by Internet security and performance provider Cloudflare. The 7.3Tbps attack amounted to 37.4 terabytes of junk traffic that hit the target in just 45 seconds. That's an almost comprehensible amount of data, equivalent to more than…HackingSee the Story

Florida used a nationwide surveillance camera network 250 times to aid in immigration arrests

100% Right coverage: 1 sources
Flock Safety’s 40,000 cameras present in over 5,000 communities across the U.S. are being used to detain undocumented immigrants.Security · FloridaSee the Story

Self-Driving Car Video Footage - Schneier on Security

Two articles crossed my path recently. First, a discussion of all the video Waymo has from outside its cars: in this case related to the LA protests. Second, a discussion of all the video Tesla has from inside its cars. Lots of things are collecting lots of video of lots of other things. How and under what rules that video is used and reused will be a continuing source of debate.Security · Los AngelesRead Article

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