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NEW: Leaked audio reveals how Tesla[.]Sexy, the company owned by 19-year-old DOGE employee Ed ‘Big Balls’ Coristine, harassed and doxed people online www.dailydot.com/debug/leaked...

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Attempts to notify @signal.org (via email and intermediary) have repeatedly failed. 🚨 Using the Signal app to send a voice memo may reveal metadata indicating the type of device and OS you're using. 🚨 This can help track users (at desk or away) or be combined with other exploits targeting devices.

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NEW: Leaked audio reveals how Tesla[.]Sexy, the company owned by 19-year-old DOGE employee Ed ‘Big Balls’ Coristine, harassed and doxed people online www.dailydot.com/debug/leaked...

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NEW, by me: A bug in phone spyware apps Cocospy and Spyic are exposing the phone data of ~2.65 million people, according to a security researcher. The bug also exposes the email address of the people who signed up. Now those email addresses are in Have I Been Pwned. techcrunch.com/2025/02/20/s...

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NEW: Cryptocurrency scammers are using an elaborate phishing method that utilizes fake Google Calendar invites to make posts on behalf of prominent political figures and journalists on X www.dailydot.com/news/crypto-...

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NEW: You need to update Signal to protect against a Russia-developed phishing technique that uses manipulated QR codes to link your Signal to an attacker’s device, thus giving access to all your messages going forward. @agreenberg.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/russia...

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New release from @ddosecrets.com is #LexipolLeaks: ddosecrets.com/article/lexi... Newsletter coming some time today.

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“In remarks to the Daily Dot, a hacker from the puppygirl hacker polycule said the group targeted Lexipol because there aren’t ‘enough hacks against the police.’ ‘So we took matters into our own paws,’ the hacker said.”

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NEW: A group known as the 'puppygirl hacker polycule' has leaked thousands of police training & policy manuals from departments across the country www.dailydot.com/debug/lexipo...

submitted 11 days ago • 259 comments

Hello! I'm looking to bring aboard a new freelancer reporter at the Daily Dot (20 hours a week) to cover the wide world of tech and politics (ideal candidates will have a specific topic they love to cover). Details at the link: fragmentmediagroup.applytojob.com/apply/EUHipm...

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New from 404 Media: Employees working at DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Means DOGE will be even more secretive and unaccountable www.404media.co/doge-employe...

submitted 17 days ago • 93 comments

instant classic

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NEW: A 'woke furry' has taken control of the X account being promoted by the right-wing group behind the "DEI Watch List" www.dailydot.com/debug/dei-wa...

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A 2011 post from President Donald Trump on X now includes a fake nude photo of him—thanks to a bug exploited by crypto scammers www.dailydot.com/news/donald-...

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This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

submitted 19 days ago • 233 comments

NEW: @wired.com built a tool to monitor 1,300+ federal .gov websites, revealing that entire sites are going dark as we speak. @telliotter.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social (who built the tool), and @dell.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/us-gov...

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NEW: WhatsApp says it has notified 90 victims, including journalists and members of civil society, that they were targeted with spyware made by Paragon. This is the first time that Paragon is linked to alleged abuse of its products. techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/w...

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Major internet freedom, censorship circumvention, and encryption tools made by groups like Tor Project, Guardian Project, and OONI have been severely impacted by Trump’s State Department executive order freezing foreign aid www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

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NEW: An unsecured DeepSeek database leaked system logs, user prompt submissions, and even users’ API authentication tokens onto the open internet. @lhn.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/expose...

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FBI seizes major cybercrime forums in coordinated domain takedown cyberscoop.com/fbi-seized-c...

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NEW: Scammers are beginning to create literal fake news videos (with AI-looking news anchors and CNN logos) of their victims claiming they've committed terrible crimes as a way to blackmail them. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/scamme...

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Last month, researchers revealed a finding that’s likely to shock some and confirm the low expectations of others: Renewable energy facilities throughout Central Europe use unencrypted radio signals to receive commands to feed or ditch power into or from the grid arstechnica.com/security/202...

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Security flaws in a Subaru web portal let hackers unlock, start ignition or access a year of detailed location history for millions of cars. The flaws are now patched. But they revealed powerful tracking abilities that Subaru employees can still access. www.wired.com/story/subaru...

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Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road drug marketplace www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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A bug in Cloudflare (and just the nature of how CDNs work) let an attacker learn the broad location of Discord, Signal, Twitter users by just sending them an image, according to a security researcher. It works because check which data center cached the image www.404media.co/cloudflare-i...

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NEW: Crypto bros have launched a celebratory “Elon Hitler” meme coin. Because of course they have. www.dailydot.com/debug/elon-m...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

This is a really cool tool and yes I immediately turned my profile pic into ASCII art. itoa.hex.dance

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NEW: A small but growing number of American firearm enthusiasts are joining RedNote to teach Chinese users how to build 3D-printed guns www.dailydot.com/debug/americ...

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NEW: A small but growing number of American firearm enthusiasts are joining RedNote to teach Chinese users how to build 3D-printed guns www.dailydot.com/debug/americ...

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The Biden administration has carved out a loophole for itself so the TikTok ban won't apply to certain government staff, according to a document signed by Secretary of State Blinken and leaked to me:

submitted 39 days ago • 83 comments

Better idea: pass a comprehensive data privacy bill that applies across the board... and maybe DON'T mimic Chinese authoritarianism by creating a "Great Firewall" of apps that aren't allowed to operate here. You can actually fix things AND not abuse the 1st Amendment in one shot!

submitted 39 days ago • 106 comments

thanks for talking to us @mikaelthalen.bsky.social!

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NEW: Elon Musk's X continues its crackdown on the two researchers who were suspended for uncovering the true identity of Adrian Dittman. Both @crimew.gay & @ryan.staticnoi.se are being told they must delete posts that even allude to Dittman to regain access to X. www.dailydot.com/news/elon-mu...

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New breach: Scholastic had a breach with 4.2M unique email addresses appearing last week. Many records also included name, phone number and physical address. 70% were already in @haveibeenpwned.com. Read more: www.dailydot.com/debug/furry-...

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NEW: An IMSI Catcher (CSS/Stingray) was likely deployed at the DNC, potentially collecting sensitive phone data from protesters and politicians. Who authorized it—and why—remains a mystery. www.wired.com/story/2024-d...

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