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Inside the FBI's Dashboard for Wiretapping the World
Never-before-published screenshots of an internal FBI tool show how the agency monitored millions of messages from the secretly backdoored messaging app Anom.
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Co-Founder of DDoSecrets Was Dark Web Drug Kingpin
Thomas White ran the Silk Road 2.0 drug marketplace and was convicted of child abuse imagery-related crimes. He was also a co-founder of transparency activist organization Distributed Denial of Secrets.
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Here are the Hacker Tools a DEF CON Hotel is Hunting For
Resorts World is searching rooms daily for hacker tools. 404 Media obtained the list of hunted items.
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DEF CON Badge Maker Pulled Off Stage Amid Claims of Non-Payment and Failed Work
Entropic Engineering, the small company that helped manufacture this year’s DEF CON badge, claims the conference organizers failed to pay for completed work. DEF CON says the company went well over budget.
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‘Airbnb Hopping’: How Hunted Hackers Stay on the Run From Kidnappers
Hackers are using false identities to book Airbnbs after being doxed and hunted by violent criminals.
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Hotel to Search Rooms During DEF CON Hacking Conference
“As you may or may not know, a well-known hacking convention will be held in Las Vegas during your stay,” Resorts World Las Vegas writes. “We will be conducting scheduled, brief visual and non-intrusive room inspections daily,” it adds.
Podcast
Podcast: Signal's President Meredith Whittaker on Backdoors and AI
We speak to Meredith Whittaker about the threat posed by AI to end-to-end encryption, what backdoors actually look like, and much more in this special interview episode.
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Here's the Video for Our Fourth FOIA Forum: PACER with Seamus Hughes
PACER expert Seamus Hughes shows us how to dig up interesting court cases and so much more.
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Podcast: Google, Reddit, and the Robots.txt Rebellion
We go long on robots.txt, AI scraping, and what it means for search and the web today. Also, a leaked document shows a multibillion dollar AI company scraped YouTube videos from specific creators, and we discuss Skibidi.
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Podcast: The Massive Nvidia Leak
A leak of Nvidia internal emails, Slack messages, and documents; how exactly spammers are flooding Facebook with AI; and our plans for DEF CON.
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Hacker Breaches Pharma Giant Bausch Health, Wants to Extort DEA
The data includes DEA numbers used for ordering controlled substances. 404 Media contacted Bausch about the data breach last week.
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Hacker Shows How to Get Free Laundry For Life
Michael Orlitzky was sick of the washer and dryer machines in his building. So, he found an alternative to paying.