In the News

• Hackers found a (not-so-easy) way to make the Amazon Echo a spy bug.
  8/12/18 – Wired
• U.S. House candidates vulnerable to hacks
  8/12/18 – Reuters
• How to protect yourself from hackers
  8/10/18 – CNN
• Deepfakes are coming. Is Big Tech ready?
  8/8/18 – CNN
• Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphones vulnerable to hacking: researchers
  8/8/18 – Reuters
• New genre of artificial intelligence programs take computer hacking to another level
  8/8/18 – Reuters
• Sounding the Alarm on the Dangers of Electroninc Voting
  8/7/18 – Bloomberg
• U.S. cites 'pervasive' Russian efforts to weaken election
  8/2/18 – Reuters
• Three people arrested for massive Chipotle, Arby's, Chili's hacks
  8/1/18 – CNN
• U.S. to announce arrest of Ukrainian hackers: sources
  8/1/18 – Reuters
• Leaked chats show alleged Russian spy seeking hacking tools
  8/1/18 – AP News
• Senate rejects new money for election security
  8/1/18 – AP News
• U.S. lawmakers demand tech firms to do more to fight election interference
  8/1/18 – Reuters
• UnityPoint data breach puts data of 1.4 million patients at risk
  7/31/18 – KCCI Des Moines
• Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign Using Fake Accounts
  7/31/18 – The New York Times
• Why We’re Sharing 3 Million Russian Troll Tweets
  7/31/18 – FiveThirtyEight
• Ancestry, 23andMe and others say they will follow these rules when giving DNA data to businesses or police
  7/31/18 – The Washington Post
• Facebook finds ‘sophisticated’ efforts to disrupt elections
  7/31/18 – AP News
• Facebook scraps accounts trying to influence November's U.S. elections
  7/31/18 – Reuters
• New Homeland Security center to guard against cyberattacks
  7/31/18 – AP News
• Dixons Carphone says 10 million accounts may have been hit in 2017 cyber attack
  7/31/18 – Reuters
• Social Security Numbers Accessed in Yale University Data Breach
  7/30/18 – NBC Connecticut
• Previously undisclosed TSA program tracks unsuspecting passengers
  7/30/18 – CNN
• A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica
  7/28/18 – The Guardian
• Anthony Kennedy's Retirement May Have Huge Consequences For Privacy
  7/27/18 – Wired