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Reporter at The Daily Beast. Speaker. Author of Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground

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    NEW — Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman appear to be behind a campaign to get young gay men to accuse Mayor Pete of sexually assaulting them. Via and

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    Remember that bumbling duo of would-be political fixers that tried to frame Robert Mueller? We caught them shopping for a patsy willing to make false sexual assault charges against Pete Buttigieg, who they view as a “terminal threat” to Trump’s reelection.

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    Apr 26

    A rare time I am glad Trump doesn't pay his bills.

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  4. Apr 25

    Facebook wasn't just verifying email accounts. It was using these passwords to log into users' email accounts and slurp down their contact lists, as discovered by . Today New York's state attorney general announced a formal investigation.

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    Apr 24
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    1) It was the GRU 2) Assange had reason to know it was the GRU, and since Rich was already dead when the DNC files arrived, Assange most definitely knew it wasn't Rich on the other end 3) The 32 pages are correspondences between NSA and Congress, not Rich and Assange

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    Apr 24

    NEW: Twitter just announced it is rolling out a new feature that will allow users to report tweets that contain deliberately misleading information about voting.

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  7. Apr 23

    Kushner is obviously taking a backhanded dig at his brother-in-law, who not only followed Russian trolls during the campaign, but retweeted them several times right up through election day. Family is complicated.

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  8. Apr 23

    You might remember VIPS from their earlier revelations on Crimea ("we see no credible evidence of a Russian invasion") and Syria ("There was no Syrian 'chemical weapons attack') .

    Note to Glenn Greenwald: Bravo for doing away with the trees, but you missed the forest. We in VIPS still can’t find “substantial” evidence of Russia “hacking the DNC & Podesta emails.” Mueller using discredited CrowdStrike for forensics. We did our own:
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    Apr 23

    New with and : a super PAC supporting Jay Inslee has found a novel way to feed data to Inslee's campaign through Facebook ads—without ever actually communicating or running afoul of coordination laws

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    Apr 20

    BREAKING: FBI arrests Larry Mitchell Hopkins, leader of The United Constitutional Patriots, an armed border militia group that spreads far-right conspiracies and rounds up asylum seekers on the border

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    Apr 18

    A very good timeline piece here. Seth Rich was dead when Wikileaks was communicating with its source for the hacks, rendering that conspiracy theory impossible. WikiLeaks wasn't just playing coy—they were actively lying. And Hannity dragged this family into it based on nothing.

    The most charitable view of ' Seth Rich hoax is that Assange genuinely thought it possible that Rich was his source for the DNC leaks. Mueller's timeline proves that false. Assange knew Rich couldn't have been the leaker. He was already dead.
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  12. Apr 18

    The most charitable view of ' Seth Rich hoax is that Assange genuinely thought it possible that Rich was his source for the DNC leaks. Mueller's timeline proves that false. Assange knew Rich couldn't have been the leaker. He was already dead.

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    Apr 18

    NEW: Mueller Exposes Erik Prince’s Lies About His Seychelles Rendezvous with Top Russian Kirill Dmitriev

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  14. Apr 17

    If you know anyone at the Attorney General's office, please remind them that the one foolproof way to redact a PDF is by setting the highlighter tool to black and selecting the text.

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  15. Apr 17

    But ... doesn’t the report exonerate him completely?

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    Apr 17

    Moscow Server Hosted WikiLeaks and Iran’s Hackers Weeks Apart - The year was 2015, and weeks after a group of brazenly persistent hackers hit over 500 targets, WikiLeaks dumped thousands of Saudi diplomatic cables. Coincidence, or connection? by

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  17. Apr 17

    New government filing in the case asks that one of the case documents be kept under seal to avoid jeopardizing an unspecified "ongoing criminal investigation."

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    Apr 17

    For those in the US just waking up: The White House cybersecurity czar under Obama was targeted last year as part of an elaborate undercover operation aimed at critics of Kaspersky Lab.

    For several months last year, an undercover operative calling himself Lucas Lambert lured cybersecurity experts to fancy hotels in an apparent effort to get dirt on opponents of Kaspersky Lab.
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    Apr 16

    Read story by , ”This may have facilitated the transfer of files from the malicious actor to Wikileaks if the stolen files were stored at a server on that IP,” wrote:

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    Apr 16

    Since I began at about 2 mo ago, a substantial portion of my time has been taken up working on this story, with . The result: "Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show"

    NBC has obtained thousands of pages of leaked internal documents show that Facebook wasn’t just spitballing about selling access to user data - the plans had buy-in among Zuck, Sandberg and were pitched to the board of directors
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