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The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With

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One of the effects of GDPR — the new EU General Data Protection Regulation — is that we’re all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and what they do with it. Consider PayPal, that just released a list of over 600 companies they… Continue reading The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With→

The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With

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One of the effects of GDPR — the new EU General Data Protection Regulation — is that we’re all going to be learning a lot more about who collects our data and what they do with it. Consider PayPal, that just released a list of over 600 companies they share customer data with. Here’s a good visualization of that data…. Continue reading The 600+ Companies PayPal Shares Your Data With→

Indictments reveal how Russia’s 2016 election information warfare worked

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Russian operatives were able to obfuscate their activities in 2016 by stealing the identities of U.S. citizens, renting servers based in the U.S. and using a VPN all while posting targeted propaganda on social media to disrupt American politics, according to a new and lengthy criminal case against multiple Russian nationals. The Justice Department on Friday released an indictment against 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies accused of violating federal U.S. criminal law to interfere with the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, wire fraud and identity theft. Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference released the detailed charges Friday, accusing a long list of Russians of supporting Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and working against Hillary Clinton’s candidacy. A recent leak of Julian Assange’s personal messages showed WikiLeaks pushing for the same goal. “The defendants waged what they called ‘information warfare against the […]

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What would be the most efficient way to process payments or donations on a not for profit website? [on hold]

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Could you please kindly help me with a my small but peculiar dilemma?

I am planning to set up a personal website, which I hope to help the world slightly move to a better place to live in.

For the website, I am thinking to … Continue reading What would be the most efficient way to process payments or donations on a not for profit website? [on hold]→

19-Year-Old TLS Vulnerability Weakens Modern Website Crypto

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New research shows how an old vulnerability called ROBOT can be exploited using an adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack to reveal the plaintext for a given TLS session. Continue reading 19-Year-Old TLS Vulnerability Weakens Modern Website Crypto→