The former deputy director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, is reportedly seeking immunity from prosecution before testifying at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing about the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation. McCabe is accused of authorizing the leaking of information about the FBI’s probe into the Clinton Foundation to the media. He is […]
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Critical PGP and S/MIME bugs can reveal encrypted e-mails. Uninstall now
The Internet’s two most widely used methods for encrypting e-mail–PGP and S/Mime–are vulnerable to hacks that can reveal the plaintext of encrypted messages, a researcher warned late Sunday night. He went on to say there are no reliable fixes and to advise anyone who uses either encryption standard for sensitive communications to remove them immediately […]
Equifax breach exposed millions of driver’s licenses, phone numbers, emails
Enlarge (credit: Smith Collection Gado/Getty Images) On May 7, executives of Equifax submitted a “statement for the record” to the Securities and Exchange Commission detailing the extent of the consumer data breach the company first reported on September 7, 2017. The data in the statement, which has also been shared with congressional committees investigating the […]
Gmail for iOS now sends money and snoozes emails
Gmail on your iPhone can now help you settle a tab with a friend. A quiet update to the iOS app has introduced the ability to send and receive money using Google Pay. As on Android devices, Gmail sends the payment as an attachment — the recipient only needs an email address to receive their […]
Tesla emails show automaker offered cash to quiet discrimination suit
Tesla doesn’t exactly have the best reputation when it comes to employee relations. Reports from the automaker’s factory in Fremont, California, talk about speed taking precedence over quality in assembling cars, and that forced overtime caused some preventable injuries. Today, The Guardian reports that company emails show Tesla wanted to pay off an employee who […]
Gmail.com redesign includes self-destructing emails
TechCrunch Gmail.com is soon getting its first redesign in seven years, and with that new look comes some new features. We’ve already heard about new side panels for Google Calendar, Google Keep, and Google Tasks, and now we’re getting word of another new feature: self-destructing emails. TechCrunch has screenshots detailing the feature from the pre-release […]
Snowed under emails?
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Israeli hackers reportedly gave Cambridge Analytica data from private emails of two world leaders
Bill Hinton/Getty Images Cambridge Analytica, the political-research company at the center of a massive Facebook-data scandal, received private emails of two world leaders from Israeli hackers. In one instance, Israeli hackers brought a USB stick which included private information about a Nigerian opposition leader, who is now president, to Cambridge Analytica’s offices. The same Israeli cybersecurity team […]
How to make £45,000 as a PA planning parties and answering emails from anywhere in the world
ibLE “Invisible PA” company ibLE offers pay-as-you-go remote PAs at £35 an hour. The PAs are paid around £45,000 a year and can work from anywhere in the world. Co-founder Emma Hatto told Business Insider it’s a “lucrative” career — and a day can involve anything from planning a celebrity bash to simply answering a […]
Trump pardons submariner who took photos of classified sub & used ‘Clinton emails’ defense
US president Donald Trump has pardoned a Navy sailor who was sentenced to prison for taking and “mishandling” photos of a classified military vessel. The submariner used Hillary Clinton’s email scandal in his court defense. Former Machinist’s Mate 1st Class Kristian Saucier took six photos of the USS Alexandria’s engine room with his cellphone at […]