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Stop using your phone number to log in

Vox

Even things that those services might recommend as an added security measure — like text, SMS, or multi-factor authentication — can actually introduce more vulnerabilities. Back in 2001 when I worked at Vodafone, we saw this problem coming,” said Marc Rogers, who is now chief security officer at the cybersecurity firm Q-Net Security.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Crimeware As A Service

ForAllSecure

It’s pretty devastating in that it arrives through phishing or some other common attack vector, sits on your network for a period of time, and then encrypts your data such that the system is inoperable until you pay a ransom for the decryption key. And I think as a net defender, it's really bad news for all of us.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

He has been a proponent of net neutrality, first proposing a bill in 2005. MK: As all good memes should be, it’s authentic, right? So that’s the debate that I had with him over net neutrality. Net neutrality was actually baked into the personality of the internet, right? This has a life of its own. Nothing went wrong.

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