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2020/06/01 [Medianews] Misinformation About George Floyd Protests Surges on Social Media Monty Solomon
2020/06/01 Re: [Medianews] Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors, as demonstrations escalate Monty Solomon
2020/06/01 [Medianews] An advanced and unconventional hack is targeting industrial firms Monty Solomon
2020/06/01 [Medianews] How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance Monty Solomon
2020/05/31 [Medianews] Critical 'Sign in with Apple' Bug Could Have Let Attackers Hijack Anyone's Account Monty Solomon
2020/05/31 [Medianews] Minnesota is now using contact tracing to track protestors, as demonstrations escalate Monty Solomon
2020/05/30 Re: [Medianews] Twitter’s decision to label Trump’s tweets was two years in the making Monty Solomon
2020/05/30 [Medianews] New Android vulnerability Strandhogg 2.0 exploits user trust Monty Solomon
2020/05/30 [Medianews] Choosing 2FA authenticator apps can be hard. Ars did it so you don’t have to Monty Solomon
2020/05/30 [Medianews] SaltStack authorization bypass Monty Solomon
2020/05/29 Re: [Medianews] Zoom security / updates / crypto Monty Solomon
2020/05/29 [Medianews] Twitter’s decision to label Trump’s tweets was two years in the making Monty Solomon
2020/05/29 [Medianews] China’s Virus Apps May Outlast the Outbreak, Stirring Privacy Fears Monty Solomon
2020/05/28 [Medianews] Temperature Checks and Desk Shields: C.D.C. Suggests Big Changes to Offices Monty Solomon
2020/05/28 [Medianews] We Don’t Even Have a COVID-19 Vaccine, and Yet the Conspiracies Are Here Monty Solomon
2020/05/28 [Medianews] How Automated Background Checks Freeze Out Renters Monty Solomon
2020/05/27 [Medianews] HBO Max Struts Into the Streaming Thunderdome Monty Solomon
2020/05/27 [Medianews] HBO Max Has Everything--Except a Clear Brand Name Monty Solomon
2020/05/25 [Medianews] Take a HEIC: Make Sure AP and Other Test Uploads Work from Your iPhone and iPad Monty Solomon
2020/05/25 [Medianews] Grandmother’s Refusal to Remove Photos From Facebook Tests Privacy Law Monty Solomon
2020/05/25 [Medianews] Inside the NSA's Secret Tool for Mapping Your Social Network Monty Solomon
2020/05/24 [Medianews] Hackers release a new jailbreak that unlocks every iPhone Monty Solomon
2020/05/24 [Medianews] Can We Track COVID-19 and Protect Privacy at the Same Time? Monty Solomon
2020/05/24 [Medianews] The Coronavirus Vaccine Is on Track to Be the Fastest Ever Developed Monty Solomon
2020/05/24 [Medianews] Immunity Passports and the Perils of Conferring Coronavirus Status Monty Solomon
2020/05/22 [Medianews] How iPhone Hackers Got Their Hands on the New iOS Months Before Its Release Monty Solomon
2020/05/22 [Medianews] Ransomware deploys virtual machines to hide itself from antivirus software Monty Solomon
2020/05/22 [Medianews] Microsoft: Beware this massive phishing campaign using malicious Excel macros to hack PCs Monty Solomon
2020/05/20 [Medianews] How the ‘Plandemic’ Movie and Its Falsehoods Spread Widely Online Monty Solomon
2020/05/17 [Medianews] Secrets, surveillance and Snowden: How a reporter broke the news that the NSA was spying on us Monty Solomon
2020/05/17 [Medianews] A Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person Monty Solomon
2020/05/17 [Medianews] Shadowland Monty Solomon
2020/05/16 [Medianews] Feds Suspect Vast Fraud Network Is Targeting U.S. Unemployment Systems Monty Solomon
2020/05/15 [Medianews] App Shows Promise in Tracking New Coronavirus Cases, Study Finds Monty Solomon
2020/05/15 [Medianews] Cord-Cutting Tracker: It Will Get So Much Worse in Q2 Monty Solomon
2020/05/15 [Medianews] Inside HBO Max, the $4 Billion Bet to Stand Out in the Streaming Wars Monty Solomon
2020/05/14 [Medianews] The Prophecies of Q Monty Solomon
2020/05/13 [Medianews] 7 New Flaws Affect All Thunderbolt-equipped Computers Sold in the Last 9 Years Monty Solomon
2020/05/13 [Medianews] Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War Monty Solomon
2020/05/13 [Medianews] A Guide to Pandemic Scams, and What Not to Fall For Monty Solomon
2020/05/11 [Medianews] U.S. to Accuse China of Trying to Hack Vaccine Data, as Virus Redirects Cyberattacks Monty Solomon
2020/05/10 [Medianews] How My Boss Monitors Me While I Work From Home Monty Solomon
2020/05/09 [Medianews] Foreign intelligence officials say attempted cyberattack on Israeli water utilities linked to Iran Monty Solomon
2020/05/07 [Medianews] China’s Military Is Tied to Debilitating New Cyberattack Tool Monty Solomon
2020/05/06 [Medianews] Sinclair Wanted to Rival Fox News. Now It Faces a $48 Million Fine. Monty Solomon
2020/05/05 [Medianews] Hacker buys old Tesla parts on eBay, finds them full of user data Monty Solomon
2020/05/05 [Medianews] Social Distancing Informants Have Their Eyes on You Monty Solomon
2020/05/03 [Medianews] macOS Image Capture Bug More Pervasive Than Originally Thought Monty Solomon
2020/05/03 [Medianews] Cellphone monitoring is spreading with the coronavirus. So is an uneasy tolerance of surveillance. Monty Solomon
2020/05/02 [Medianews] Why dangerous conspiracy theories about the virus spread so fast — and how they can be stopped Monty Solomon
2020/04/30 [Medianews] States Made It Harder to Get Jobless Benefits. Now That’s Hard to Undo. Monty Solomon
2020/04/29 Re: [Medianews] Do You Want to Die in an I.C.U.? Pandemic Makes Question All Too Real Monty Solomon
2020/04/29 [Medianews] Do You Want to Die in an I.C.U.? Pandemic Makes Question All Too Real Monty Solomon
2020/04/28 [Medianews] Attackers exploit 0-day code-execution flaw in the Sophos firewall Monty Solomon
2020/04/26 [Medianews] Apple and Google update joint coronavirus tracing tech to improve user privacy and developer flexibility Monty Solomon
2020/04/26 [Medianews] 'Deficiencies' that broke FCC commenting system in net neutrality fight detailed by GAO Monty Solomon
2020/04/26 [Medianews] Instacart has a problem with third-party apps letting shoppers pay for early access to orders Monty Solomon
2020/04/26 [Medianews] Verizon lost 84, 000 pay TV subscribers in Q1 as consumers continue shift to streaming Monty Solomon
2020/04/26 [Medianews] Contact tracing apps are coming whether we like it or not Monty Solomon
2020/04/26 [Medianews] Android's upcoming call recording feature could be region restricted Monty Solomon
2020/04/26 [Medianews] Tesla rolls out Autopilot navigation for traffic lights and stop signs Monty Solomon
2020/04/25 [Medianews] VOD, Streaming or Virtual Cinema? Your Guide to Digital Movie Options Monty Solomon
2020/04/25 [Medianews] The Untold Story of the Birth of Social Distancing Monty Solomon
2020/04/25 [Medianews] Nearly 50% of Twitter Accounts Talking about Coronavirus Might Be Bots Monty Solomon
2020/04/24 [Medianews] Coronavirus Antibody Tests: Can You Trust the Results? Monty Solomon
2020/04/23 [Medianews] HBO Max is coming. So where does that leave Go and Now subscribers? Monty Solomon
2020/04/23 [Medianews] Connecticut suburb deploys ‘pandemic drones’ to try to enforce social distancing Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] New York payments startup exposed millions of credit card numbers Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] Netflix promises subscribers it won't run out of new content while people are stuck at home Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] Zoom releases 5.0 update with security and privacy improvements Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] AT&T’s massive TV losses continue as another 900,000 customers flee Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] A critical iPhone and iPad bug that lurked for 8 years may be under active attack Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] Apple iPhone SE review: everything you need Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] Zoom 5.0 update will bring much-needed security upgrades Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] Israel stops using phone tracking to enforce COVID-19 quarantines Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] Verizon extends 15GB of additional mobile data through May Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] Nearly 25, 000 email addresses and passwords allegedly from NIH, WHO, Gates Foundation and others are dumped online Monty Solomon
2020/04/22 [Medianews] Leaked pics from Amazon Ring show potential new surveillance features Monty Solomon
2020/04/20 [Medianews] 2 billion phones cannot use Google and Apple contact-tracing tech Monty Solomon
2020/04/20 [Medianews] Charter Promises No Layoffs or Employee Furloughs for 60 Days Monty Solomon
2020/04/20 [Medianews] NBCUniversal's Fandango Buys Vudu From Walmart Monty Solomon
2020/04/19 [Medianews] Millions of Americans Might Not Get Stimulus Checks. Some Might Be Tricked Into Paying TurboTax to Get Theirs. Monty Solomon
2020/04/19 [Medianews] Buyer beware—that 2TB-6TB “NAS” drive you’ve been eyeing might be SMR Monty Solomon
2020/04/19 [Medianews] A Teenager Posted About Her COVID-19 Infection on Instagram. A Deputy Threatened To Arrest Her If She Didn’t Delete It. Monty Solomon
2020/04/19 [Medianews] You Can Now Check If Your ISP Uses Basic Security Measures Monty Solomon
2020/04/19 [Medianews] Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper? Monty Solomon
2020/04/19 [Medianews] A start-up is using photos to ID you. Big tech can stop it from happening again. Monty Solomon
2020/04/19 [Medianews] Why Apple has stopped making small phones—and why it should start again Monty Solomon
2020/04/19 [Medianews] The secret behind "unkillable" Android backdoor called xHelper has been revealed Monty Solomon
2020/04/19 [Medianews] You Can Now Check If Your ISP Uses Basic Security Measures Monty Solomon
2020/04/15 [Medianews] Ready for Another Streaming Service? NBC's Peacock Starts Rollout Monty Solomon
2020/04/12 [Medianews] Apple TV Plus Streams Certain Shows, Movies for Free As Millions Shelter in Place Monty Solomon
2020/04/12 [Medianews] How to Cover Your Tracks Every Time You Go Online Monty Solomon
2020/04/12 [Medianews] 'Every day is a crisis': Zoom boosts its security as scrutiny grows Monty Solomon
2020/04/12 [Medianews] A Sex Doll Stole My Identity Monty Solomon
2020/04/11 [Medianews] Apple and Google are launching a joint COVID-19 tracing tool for iOS and Android Monty Solomon
2020/04/11 [Medianews] Easy-to-pick “smart” locks gush personal data, FTC finds Monty Solomon
2020/04/11 [Medianews] Attackers can bypass fingerprint authentication with an ~80% success rate Monty Solomon
2020/04/10 [Medianews] Burning Cell Towers, Out of Baseless Fear They Spread the Virus Monty Solomon
2020/04/10 [Medianews] Apple and Google Team Up to ‘Contact Trace’ the Coronavirus Monty Solomon
2020/04/08 [Medianews] Quibi, the Incredible Shrinking TV Set Monty Solomon
2020/04/08 [Medianews] Kushner’s team seeks national coronavirus surveillance system Monty Solomon
2020/04/07 [Medianews] Privacy Cannot Be a Casualty of the Coronavirus Monty Solomon
2020/04/07 [Medianews] Scammers are creating Netflix lookalikes to target people staying at home, study finds Monty Solomon
2020/04/05 [Medianews] Aquarium Online Academy offers virtual field trip of sea life and marine-related education and fun Monty Solomon
2020/04/05 [Medianews] Film Treasures, Streaming Courtesy of the Library of Congress Monty Solomon
2020/04/04 [Medianews] Roku Channel Adds Hundreds of Hours of Free HBO Shows, Movies and 'Sesame Street' Episodes Monty Solomon
2020/04/03 [Medianews] ‘Zoombombing’ Becomes a Dangerous Organized Effort Monty Solomon
2020/04/03 [Medianews] HBO offers 500 hours of free programming, but there's a catch Monty Solomon
2020/04/03 [Medianews] FTC, FCC crack down on coronavirus robocall scams Monty Solomon
2020/04/03 [Medianews] Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days Monty Solomon
2020/04/03 [Medianews] A Feature on Zoom Secretly Displayed Data From People’s LinkedIn Profiles Monty Solomon
2020/04/03 [Medianews] Thousands of Zoom video calls left exposed on open Web Monty Solomon
2020/04/03 [Medianews] Zoom encryption Monty Solomon
2020/04/02 [Medianews] Dispelling Zoom Bugbears: What You Need to Know About the Latest Zoom Vulnerabilities Monty Solomon
2020/03/31 [Medianews] Zoom Meetings Do Not Support End-to-End Encryption Monty Solomon
2020/03/31 [Medianews] Searls: Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act Monty Solomon
2020/03/31 [Medianews] Zoom Calls Aren't as Private as You May Think. Here's What You Should Know. Monty Solomon
2020/03/31 [Medianews] Cybersecurity Lawyer Who Flagged The WHO Hack Warns Of 'Massive' Remote Work Risks Monty Solomon
2020/03/27 [Medianews] AT&T and Cricket Battle T-Mobile With Their Own $15 Phone Plans Monty Solomon
2020/03/27 [Medianews] The entire world is streaming more than ever -- and it's straining the internet Monty Solomon
2020/03/27 [Medianews] Zoom iOS app quietly sending data to Facebook, even if you have no account Monty Solomon
2020/03/26 [Medianews] Terrifying cellphone 'heat map' shows just how much people are still traveling Monty Solomon
2020/03/26 [Medianews] T-Mobile tracks 'dramatic' spike in messaging, launches low-cost phone plan Monty Solomon
2020/03/26 [Medianews] T-Mobile Connect Launches Early to Help the Most Vulnerable in America Get and Stay Connected Monty Solomon
2020/03/26 [Medianews] AT&T, Verizon see consumers dial up voice usage Monty Solomon
2020/03/25 [Medianews] Google Play’s malicious app problem infects 1.7 million more devices Monty Solomon
2020/03/24 [Medianews] Apple updates Safari’s anti-tracking tech with full third-party cookie blocking Monty Solomon
2020/03/24 [Medianews] States Say Some Doctors Stockpile Trial Coronavirus Drugs, for Themselves Monty Solomon
2020/03/24 [Medianews] Our iPhone weekly screen time reports are through the roof, and people are ‘horrified’ Monty Solomon
2020/03/24 [Medianews] Facebook lowers video quality in Latin America, following Europe Monty Solomon
2020/03/23 [Medianews] As Coronavirus Surveillance Escalates, Personal Privacy Plummets Monty Solomon
2020/03/22 [Medianews] Zoombombing Monty Solomon
2020/03/20 [Medianews] YouTube, Amazon Prime forgo streaming quality to relieve European networks Monty Solomon
2020/03/18 [Medianews] Our Internet Isn’t Ready for Coronavirus Monty Solomon
2020/03/17 [Medianews] Study ranks the privacy of major browsers. Here are the findings Monty Solomon
2020/03/17 [Medianews] SoftBank Owned Patent Troll, Using Monkey Selfie Law Firm, Sues To Block Covid-19 Testing, Using Theranos Patents Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] Think Cheating in Baseball Is Bad? Try Chess Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] Broadcom lawsuit blames your Netflix habit for a drop in chip sales Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] To Track Coronavirus, Israel Moves to Tap Secret Trove of Cellphone Data Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] Comcast, Charter expand broadband domination as cable hits 67% market share Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] Some mobile ad-blockers and VPNs siphoning user data, report finds Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] Intel SGX is vulnerable to an unfixable flaw that can steal crypto keys and more Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] Yahoo Mobile: The Verizon phone plan that no one asked for Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] Comcast accidentally published 200, 000 "unlisted" phone numbers Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] Massive iOS 14 leak outlines key features, from trackpad support to AR Monty Solomon
2020/03/16 [Medianews] Smart home developers raise concerns about Alexa and Google Assistant security Monty Solomon
2020/03/15 [Medianews] Live Coronavirus Map Used to Spread Malware Monty Solomon
2020/03/14 [Medianews] How a ban on pro-Trump patterns unraveled the online knitting world Monty Solomon
2020/03/14 [Medianews] Apple closes all stores around world outside China due to Covid-19 Monty Solomon
2020/03/11 [Medianews] The Case for Limiting Your Browser Extensions Monty Solomon
2020/03/11 [Medianews] CIA's password for its top-secret hacking tools? 123ABCdef Monty Solomon
2020/03/11 [Medianews] Virgin Media Accused of Downplaying Security Incident Monty Solomon
2020/03/11 [Medianews] Cyber Solarium Commission proposes actions to strengthen nation’s defenses against foreign threats Monty Solomon
2020/03/10 [Medianews] Windows Explorer Used by Mailto Ransomware to Evade Detection Monty Solomon
2020/03/08 Re: [Medianews] Millions of tweets peddled conspiracy theories about coronavirus in other countries, an unpublished U.S. report says Monty Solomon
2020/03/08 [Medianews] Millions of tweets peddled conspiracy theories about coronavirus in other countries, an unpublished U.S. report says Monty Solomon
2020/03/08 [Medianews] Struggling AT&T plans "tens of billions" in cost cuts, more layoffs Monty Solomon
2020/03/08 [Medianews] 5 years of Intel CPUs and chipsets have a concerning flaw that’s unfixable Monty Solomon
2020/03/08 [Medianews] Hulu's live TV doesn't work on T-Mobile home Internet Monty Solomon
2020/03/08 [Medianews] FCC to require anti-robocall tech after "voluntary" plan didn't work out Monty Solomon
2020/03/08 [Medianews] Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys Monty Solomon
2020/03/07 [Medianews] They left D.C.'s tech scene for Memphis — and started DittyTV, a streaming channel for roots music Monty Solomon
2020/03/07 [Medianews] NASA shows it’s lost confidence in Boeing’s ability to police its own work on Starliner space capsule Monty Solomon
2020/03/07 [Medianews] Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect. Monty Solomon
2020/03/07 [Medianews] Amazon to Show Yankees Games in First Move as Channel Owner Monty Solomon
2020/03/06 [Medianews] The Graham-Blumenthal Bill: A New Path for DOJ to Finally Break Encryption Monty Solomon
2020/03/06 [Medianews] More than one billion Android devices at risk of malware threats Monty Solomon
2020/03/06 [Medianews] 'Unfixable' boot ROM security flaw in millions of Intel chips could spell 'utter chaos' for DRM, file encryption, etc Monty Solomon
2020/03/05 [Medianews] This Small Company Is Turning Utah Into a Surveillance Panopticon Monty Solomon
2020/03/05 [Medianews] Your health may affect what ads you see on Facebook Monty Solomon
2020/03/05 [Medianews] Before Clearview Became a Police Tool, It Was a Secret Plaything of the Rich Monty Solomon
2020/03/03 [Medianews] SweynTooth Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities May Affect Certain Medical Devices: FDA Safety Communication Monty Solomon
2020/03/03 [Medianews] Coronavirus Will Test Our New Way of Life Monty Solomon
2020/02/29 [Medianews] 'Surfing attack' hacks Siri, Google with ultrasonic waves Monty Solomon
2020/02/27 [Medianews] HTTPS for all: Let’s Encrypt reaches one billion certificates issued Monty Solomon
2020/02/27 [Medianews] These Students Are Learning About Fake News and How to Spot It Monty Solomon
2020/02/27 [Medianews] My car was in a hit-and-run. Then I learned it recorded the whole thing. Monty Solomon
2020/02/26 [Medianews] AI baby monitors attract anxious parents: ‘Fear is the quickest way to get people’s attention’ Monty Solomon
2020/02/26 [Medianews] Flaw in billions of Wi-Fi devices left communications open to eavesdropping Monty Solomon
2020/02/26 [Medianews] New ’Off-Facebook Activity’ tool shows exactly how much the social network tracks your life Monty Solomon
2020/02/26 [Medianews] ICE has run facial-recognition searches on millions of Maryland drivers Monty Solomon
2020/02/26 [Medianews] Facial recognition app used by more than 600 law enforcement agencies suffers significant data breach Monty Solomon
2020/02/23 [Medianews] Ring and Nest helped normalize American surveillance and turned us into a nation of voyeurs Monty Solomon
2020/02/23 [Medianews] 911 operators couldn’t trace the location of a dying student’s phone. It’s a growing issue. Monty Solomon
2020/02/23 [Medianews] Companies Are Stealing Influencers' Faces Monty Solomon
2020/02/23 [Medianews] Mac users are getting bombarded by laughably unsophisticated malware Monty Solomon
2020/02/23 [Medianews] Google: Disruptive ads enforcement and our new approach Monty Solomon
2020/02/23 [Medianews] Encoding Stolen Credit Card Data on Barcodes Monty Solomon
2020/02/23 [Medianews] Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] Fox, Comcast Pursue Takeovers of Ad-Supported Video Services Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] Why fixing security vulnerabilities in medical devices, IoT is so hard Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] Fox Looks to Buy Streaming Service Tubi Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] US government goes all in to expose new malware used by North Korean hackers Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] Samsung's 2020 TV lineup forces high-end buyers to go 8K whether they want it or not Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] Hackers exploit critical vulnerability found in ~100, 000 WordPress sites Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] ISPs sue Maine, claim Web-privacy law violates their free-speech rights Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] A US gas pipeline operator was infected by malware--your questions answered Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] As satellite TV tanks, Dish says merger with DirectTV is "inevitable" Monty Solomon
2020/02/21 [Medianews] The House wants to know what Ring is doing with footage from your house Monty Solomon