The worst mistake you can make is not voting. The second-worst is … accidentally voting for the wrong person. So read those voters pamphlets, and news stories about HOW you’ll be voting, and be prepared! Still, there are other ways your vote can be screwed with on election day. For [Keep reading]
Step 2: Voter registration Let’s say you press on past digital propaganda and decide you are going to vote. You register. That data has to live somewhere. And it has to remain accurate. If a group wanted to engage in voter suppression, they could hack state registration databases and remove [Keep reading]
Yes, every vote counts. But will your vote be properly counted next week? Or will hackers mess with our election (again?)? Also, voting seems so simple; Bush or Gore, yes or no…why is it so hard to get this right? These are essential questions, central questions at the heart of [Keep reading]
Today, we’ll begin with Step 1: Long before you step into the voting both, your vote can be hacked. It’s already happened. I’ve written about state-sponsored trolling before, and I think it might be the greatest threat to democracy, and maybe even intelligence itself. Here’s a partial transcript from this part [Keep reading]
You’ve been hacked, and now you have a mess to clean up. Maybe an imposter rampaged through your bank accounts, so you have to make dozens of calls. Maybe you have to play email tag with huge firms like Facebook or Google to reclaim your accounts. You probably have to [Keep reading]
A young Canadian hacker hired by Russian FSB agents to help with the biggest hack in history will spend five years for his role in the crime, a U.S. federal just ruled today. Karim Baratov, one of the key figures in my podcast about the Yahoo hack, Breach, was spared [Keep reading]
I appeared on WTOP radio in Washington D.C. to talk about the $35 million fine that Yahoo’s successor will have to pay over failing to disclose hacking incidents to investors. The fine affirms some of the reporting we did in our Breach podcast. Click there to learn hear Breach. Or [Keep reading]
In this final episode of Breach (for now), we learn the fate of the Russian hackers allegedly behind the biggest hack in history. This episode takes you from the infamous Lefortovo prison in Moscow to a kindergarten classroom. And hopefully, lays the groundwork for a sensible discussion about how consumers [Keep reading]
On episode 4 of Breach, our podcast about the massive Yahoo hack, investigative journalist Michael Isikoff appears to provide a much deeper view of Russian attacks on critical U.S. systems during the past decade. Isikoff is one of the most important journalists of our generation, and he becomes part of the [Keep reading]
What’s really going on inside Center 18 — the cybersecurity office of the Russian FSB? And who exactly were the Russians behind the hack of Yahoo. For Episode 3 of our Breach podcast, we dig deep inside Russia’s cyber-hacking machine with the help of Moscow-based journalist Andrei Soldatov . He’s co-author of [Keep reading]
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