Author: Emily Dreyfuss / Source: WIRED
The week in security news began much as you’d expect: still trying to make sense of the redacted Mueller report, which was released to congress late last week. Garrett M. Graff’s takeaways? The report makes clear that Trump was worse than a “useful idiot,” along with 14 other insights you may have missed.
After a horrific string of bombings left more than 300 people dead in Sri Lanka over the weekend, the government there blocked US tech platforms in order to quell the spread of misinformation.
Civil rights experts warned that despite the harmful role social media has played in spreading violence and propaganda, this was the wrong move.Things quickly swerved away from the geopolitical and toward the familiar domain of terrifying hacks, including two that almost sound like hackers are actually reading minds (they’re not). First, a blockchain bandit is guessing people’s private keys and making off with the funds; and next, hackers can tell exactly which Netflix Bandersnatch choices you make. Hackers have also sneaked malware into videogames via their supply chain, which ain’t good. But GoDaddy took down 15,000 spammy domains, which is good. And in even better news, there’s a pretty good fix for the ever-escalating SIM card swap attack—but why isn’t the US using it?
If you haven’t already, do yourself a favor this weekend and read the jaw-dropping tale of bitcoins and murder.
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