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Published time: 6 May, 2017 08:27 French presidential hopeful Emmanuelle Macron’s team confirmed that it suffered a massive hacking attack after a trove of internal documents was released online just a day before the final round of elections. On Friday evening, a profile called EMLEAKS posted a nine-gigabyte leak to Pastebin, a web application where […]
Google Docs users came across a new sophisticated type of phishing scam after many clicked a well-disguised link sent to Gmail accounts. The fraudulent invitations spread like wildfire before they were finally stopped, but many questions remain. On Wednesday, several Gmail users received emails from known contacts, asking them to click on a link to […]
An evil phishing worm masquerading as “Google Docs” took the internet by storm today. An e-mail from a friend or relative claims they shared a document with you. Clicking on the “Open in Docs” button asked you to log in to Google, then it popped up a familiar OAuth request asking for some permissions. If you […]
Enlarge / Don’t click. A widely reported e-mail purporting to be a request to share a Google Docs document is actually a well-disguised phishing attack. It directs the user to a lookalike site and grants the site access to the target’s Google credentials. If the victim clicks on the prompt to give the site permission […]
Image: Gizmodo / Pexels Oh God, a hacker’s on the loose with a new (but familiar) Google Docs phishing scam, and journalists (among many others) are in the crosshairs. On Wednesday afternoon, countless unsuspecting email users—including reporters from BuzzFeed, Hearst, New York Magazine, Vice, as well as your friends here at Gizmodo Media—received some seemingly […]
A privacy group is suing the NYPD for documents related to their secretive and unregulated facial recognition program. They say the technology can misidentify people, causing innocent people to be investigated or arrested. The Center on Privacy & Technology (CPT), a university think tank at Georgetown Law, announced Tuesday that it filed a Freedom of […]
Enlarge (credit: manley099) Rather than allow public, but still-classified materials found on WikiLeaks to be exposed in court, federal prosecutors in Tacoma, Washington, have dropped two cases related to child pornography. Those two counts were against a man accused of downloading such materials through Playpen, a now-defunct child-pornography website that was hidden through Tor. The […]
A conservative watchdog group is suing the US Justice Department over records related to the private meeting of former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President Bill Clinton as Hillary Clinton was under investigation during the 2016 campaign. On Wednesday, Judicial Watch announced they had filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the […]
Published time: 25 Feb, 2017 02:48 At least one intelligence officer determined that President Donald Trump’s executive order banning travel from seven predominantly Muslim nations was supported with insufficient evidence, based on information obtained from the Department of Homeland Security. A draft document procured by the Associated Press reveals that President Trump’s travel ban was […]
