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Thanks to news coverage of President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian president Zelensky, Americans are learning about a conspiracy theory that Ukraine was behind attempts to hack the 2016 US election. This rumor persists despite US intelligence agencies near certainty that Russia was the culprit. There is evidence Russia even started these rumors, hoping to frame Ukraine. A key element of the “Ukraine did it” theory is based on a rumor that cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to

FaceApp is enjoying another viral moment fueled by celebrity selfies, while sparking dire warnings from security and privacy experts. Now politicians in Congress are calling for an investigation and the DNC ordered Democratic staffers to delete the app from their phones. Is FaceApp being singled out unfairly? After all, most mobile are about as ethical as Stephen Colbert’s mythical PonyPoints app. Let’s look at five FaceApp media myths: FaceApp puts your photos in the cloud

Facebook sits at the eye of a perfect storm this week. Congress forced them to reveal the extent of Russian ads and fake news during the 2016 election. FaceLiker malware spiked. Fake Friend attacks continued to spread. Facebook security matters. For many people, Facebook is the Internet. One in five web page views occur through Facebook. Ten million web sites are Liked or Shared on Facebook every day. With over 2 billion active users, many who get most of their online

The day of reckoning is here. President Obama vowed to strike back against Russia after the DNC hacks. The attack window was set between Election Day and Inauguration Day. And since Trump won, Obama cannot defer it to the next administration. Any counter-strike must happen now or never. Assuming a CIA covert operation (as NBC reported) it may have already begun. Yesterday CIA officials briefed Congressional leaders on the DNC breach, offering credible evidence it was carr

Conspiracy theories sprout like mushrooms in the fertilized hothouse known as Twitter. Today, in the wake of news reports that Russian hackers stole Trump opposition research from the Democratic National Committee, Twitter is abuzz with speculation that Russia carried out the operation on behalf of Donald Trump. After all, why else would Russia want those files? After all, aren’t Putin and Trump BFFs? By #twitterlogic it must be true. DNC called in CrowdStrike to investig