Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
T-Mobile Approximately 15 million T-Mobile customers and credit applicants had their records stolen after hackers stole information from its credit verifier, Experian, said T-Mobile CEO John Legere. People who applied for a credit check or device financing from T-Mobile between September 1, 2013, and September 16, 2015, had their information stolen, according to a note…
Matthew Keys with his defense team. Image: Sarah Jeong A defense lawyer for Matthew Keys, a journalist charged with helping Anonymous “hack” the LA Times website, told a jury on Tuesday that his client was not guilty because he neither intended to cause damage, nor actually caused the amount of damage that the government…
As so often happens, a government attempt to quash the use of technology it doesn’t like has made that tech more popular than ever. A week after the Department of Homeland Security intimidated a New Hampshire public library into shutting down its Tor relay, about a dozen other libraries nationwide have shown interest in running…
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s injunction against the National Security Agency’s program to collect records on billions of telephone calls to, from and within the United States in an effort to seek out terrorist plots. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit splintered on the…
Day two, people. Settle in. Lily Hay Newman is a staff writer and the lead blogger for Future Tense. /.about-the-author The “Impact Team” hackers who on Tuesday evening posted 10 gigabytes of user data from infidelity-facilitator Ashley Madison seem to have released a second trove of company data on Thursday. And this one is double…
John Brennan was about to say he was sorry. On July 28, 2014, the CIA director wrote a letter to senators Dianne Feinstein and Saxby Chambliss — the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI) and the panel’s ranking Republican, respectively. In it, he admitted that the CIA’s penetration of the computer network used by…
The Internet was built for openness and speed, not for security. As more and more services, infrastructure and personal information move online, they have all become targets for hackers, who constantly scan the Internet for potential security holes and entry points. At government agencies, old, out-of-date systems and budget shortfalls have left information vulnerable. Security…
So let’s say you’re a New York–based publication which has just published the words and portraits of 35 women who have accused Bill Cosby of rape — on your cover no less. Then a hacker decides to launch an all-out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, bringing your servers to their knees. The first reports…
On Sunday night, New York Magazine released a groundbreaking new cover featuring 35 victims of alleged assault from Bill Cosby. But you can’t see it. Our site is experiencing technical difficulties. We are aware of the issue, and working on a fix. — New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 27, 2015 A self-described hacker called ThreatKing, who…
Last night, New York Magazine unveiled a powerful feature about Bill Cosby’s accusers, featuring the testimonials and photographs of 35 out of 46 of the women who said Cosby raped them. Unfortunately, those hoping to read the article or see the historic cover will have to look elsewhere, because a hacker brought down the nymag.com…