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The US Senate on Thursday confirmed the long-time anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The vote was largely along party lines, with a tally of 52 to 48. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.), a polio survivor and steadfast supporter of vaccines, voted against the confirmation, the only Republican to do so.

Before the vote, Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) claimed that if there had been a secret ballot today, most Republicans would have voted against Kennedy. "But sadly, and unfortunately for America, Republicans are being strong-armed by Donald Trump and will end up holding their nose and voting to confirm Mr. Kennedy... What a travesty," Schumer said.

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Vance is on a five-day visit to France and Germany, his first overseas travel since becoming vice president last month.

Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says he’s going to put together an investor group to buy TikTok, a day after the House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban the popular video app in the U.S. if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake

Checking out this AI chatbot's new features? Make sure to keep these privacy tips in mind during your interactions.

Collaboration sits at the essence of SaaS applications. The word, or some form of it, appears in the top two headlines on Google Workspace’s homepage. It can be found six times on Microsoft 365’s homepage, three times on Box, and once on Workday. Visit nearly any SaaS site, and odds are ‘collaboration’ will appear as part of the app’s key selling point.  By sitting on the cloud, content within

A court fight between the world’s richest man and an influential social platform could easily have become a circus, particularly given Elon Musk's penchant for chaos

It's not like the good old days with iffy cryptography and begging for keys

Comment  It's getting difficult these days to find a ransomware group that doesn't steal data and promise not to sell it if a ransom is paid off. What's more, these criminals are going down the extortion-only route, and not even bothering to scramble your files with encryption.…

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Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between July 31 and Aug. 7. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is...

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Focus on usability to avoid buyer’s remorse, Echoworx advises

Sponsored  In its raw form, email isn't the most secure channel for carrying national secrets. It was originally designed for plain text, and plenty of modern mainstream email systems still don't support encryption out of the box. So if you're someone like Edward Snowden, you'll want to make darn sure that your correspondent knows how to use encryption.…

The Internet Archive's National Emergency Library is finished. The non-profit repository for digital preservation, which began offering millions of e-books for free to address the closure of libraries during the pandemic, buckled under a joint lawsuit filed by major publishers including Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. From a report: Publishers said lending out books without compensation was "mass copyright infringement." The digital library will close next week. The archive of books was initially invite-only and only allowed a given file to be downloaded a limited number of times at once, with each rental limited to 14 days. But then the pandemic hit and libraries closed, so the Internet Archive responded by making all the books accessible to everyone, with no limits.

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The pandemic highlights the vulnerability of workers for private transportation services, which are essential to mobility in global south cities.

The process to get unlicensed versions of movies, music and other content taken off the internet isn't working as intended and should be updated, the Copyright Office said in an expansive report Thursday. From a report: Updating that system would require an act of Congress, which can now look to the Copyright Office's conclusions as it considers legislating on the matter. In its report, the office found the system for notice and takedown of infringing materials is unbalanced and out of sync with Congress' intent when it established the process in the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA includes liability protection for online companies whose users illegally upload copyrighted material if the online companies take down the material when they are notified by the rights-holder. Copyright holders have complained that this process doesn't proactively protect their intellectual property against online infringement, and the report appears to agree, concluding "Congress' original intended balance has been tilted askew."

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Diamond mines in Canada have a short window in which to truck in their equipment—satellite sensors could help ice roads keep on truckin’.

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MANAMA, Bahrain — A sailor onboard the USS Truxton acted like a total weirdo by waiting until after watch to masturbate, sources confirmed today. Operational Specialist 3rd Class Jack Winter finished standing topside rover at 2 a.m., turned in his firearms, and then masturbated in the berthing head. His actions went against thousands of years […] More

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This week begins with the biggest of big breaches - the one that finally broke the big "B" - Yahoo (version 2). It's a massive story and I spent a lot of time yesterday answering media queries about hacker things related to data breaches. I talk about that at the start of this weekly update as well pursuing a career in security, providing an internet basics course for free via Varonis and how my blog on Ubiquiti network bits is still getting massive traction.

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1. The crazy, massive, huge Yahoo breach (there's a heap of angles to this, short interview with me there, longer set of thoughts in the weekly update video)
2. Here's my take on where to get started with a career in security (there are many, many, many different paths you can take, this is the one I reckon is a great first step)
3. Free course! Varonis and I teamed up to educate the masses (it's probably not for you, it's for you to get other people to watch)
4. My Ubiquiti post hit number 1 on Hacker News! (yes, I know I've mentioned it before, but this gear still rocks and heaps of people are jumping on it)

NIST's Cybersecurity Workforce Framework gives the security industry a way to classify specific specialty areas and work roles and identify a path for career growth.

Maybe it mistook the cat for a privacy lawsuit-bearing lawyer from Belgium.

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Daytona Beach, FL – Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump was in Daytona Beach on Wednesday for a campaign rally and addressed a crowd of around 8,000 people.

Most of his time was spent attacking President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and the media, and he hit on some of his usual talking points as well.

The crowd chanted “Build the wall!” as he repeated his intentions to build a wall (which he said would be as tall as the Ocean Center’s ceiling) on the Mexican border and “Lock her up!” whenever Clinton’s name was mentioned. Trump said of Clinton, “she should get an award from them as the founder of ISIS.”

After a turbulent week for his campaign which included a public spat with the Khan family (parents of a Muslim Army captain who died in Iraq), Trump said the campaign has “never been so well united.” He went on to say “I would say right now it’s the best in terms of being united that it’s been since we began.”

Trump also reached out to Sanders supporters and even claimed that they’ll be voting Trump come November.

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Sysadmins, your job is basically impossible so we've put our heads together and created a guide to fixing any computer problem. Period.

Researchers have discovered a new trick for concealing the installation of RATs, after identifying malware samples that never touch the hard drive throughout execution, remaining in memory until the malware is fully enabled.

An update for Friday's action on the track at Daytona International Speedway.

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sciencehabit writes: Astronomers have long believed that Mars snatched its two moons — Phobos and Deimos — from the asteroid belt. That would explain why the objects look like asteroids—dark, crater-pocked, and potato-shaped. But computer simulations by two independent teams of astronomers (abstract 1, abstract 2) indicated that Mars's moons formed much like ours did, after a giant space rock smashed into the planet and sprayed debris into orbit.

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An anonymous reader sends this report from TechDirt: Is Ireland looking to pass a law that would "outlaw ebooks and jail people for annoying others?" Well, no, not really, but that's the sort of unintended consequences that follow when laws are updated for the 21st century using little more than a word swap. Ireland has had long-standing laws against harassment via snail mail, telephones and (as of 2007) SMS messages. A 2014 report by the government's somewhat troublingly-named "Internet Content Governance Advisory Group" recommended updating this section of the law to cover email, social media and other internet-related transmissions. ... The broad language -- if read literally -- could make emailing an ebook to someone a criminal offense. Works of fiction are, by definition, false. ... It's the vestigial language from previous iterations of the law -- words meant to target scam artists and aggressive telemarketers -- that is problematic. Simply appending the words "electronic communications" to an old law doesn't address the perceived problem (cyberbullying is cited in the governance group's report). It just creates new problems.

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