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the revelation that Facebook leaked the data of 500 million users—including phone numbers and other potentially sensitive info—and the company still hasn't given a full account of what happened. But we've managed to figure out both that the , and that before it resulted in attackers scraping half a billion people's data.On Thursday, federal agents arrested a 28-year-old Texas man for . According to court documents, he had made alarming posts on the forums at MyMilitia.com, which someone then reported to the FBI. While it's a concerning incident, domestic terror experts say there are no signs that Big Tech is a more pronounced target than in years past despite the heightened rhetoric from the far-right around supposed censorship. announced this week that it would begin . While a payments feature helps Signal keep up with its more full-featured competitors, the move raised questions as to whether Signal was inviting regulator interest and overly complicating a product lauded for its simplicity and ease of use.As Slack and Discord have gained in popularity during the pandemic, so to have they become . And as Twitch's home-grown microcelebrities become increasingly high-profile, the service has instituted an official policy to enforce serious bad behavior that happens off-platform.&nbsp;The Facebook's attempts to expand its end-to-end encryption. Russia may have found , and Twitter is bearing the brunt. And onboard.Finally, it's rare to get a look inside the National Security Agency, but three women involved in cybersecurity in the intelligence community that have defined their careers.And there's more! Each week we round up all the news WIRED didn’t cover in depth. Click on the headlines to read the full stories. And stay safe out there.Remember that Facebook leak? Of course! We just spent a lot of time on it. Not to be outdone, LinkedIn this week confirmed that a trove for sale on hacker forums includes "publicly viewable member profile data that appears to have been scraped from LinkedIn," in addition to other sources around the web. LinkedIn wasn't hacked (), but instead was victimized by attackers who figured out on a massive scale. Even thought it was already online, personal data being aggregated in that way still benefits hackers and phishers, especially, who can use it to build profiles of you for better targeting.Over 27 tons of cocaine have ben confiscated in Antwerp over the last two months, Belgian police say. More intriguingly, authorities assert that they were initially tipped off to the shipments after decrypting hundreds of millions of messages sent on defunct encrypted phone company and network Sky ECC. Dutch and Belgian authorities had allegedly connected to the drug trade in the aftermath of cracking Sky.Two Dutch researchers this week demonstrated that they could remotely get control of a PC running Zoom with no interaction from the user. Specific details haven't been disclosed, as Zoom has yet to patch the underlying bugs. The team's finding won them $200,000 at Pwn2Own, a twice-yearly competition for white-hat hackers. "We are working to mitigate this issue with respect to Zoom Chat, our group messaging product," Zoom said in a statement. "In-session chat in Zoom Meetings and Zoom Video Webinars are not impacted by the issue. The attack must also originate from an accepted external contact or be a part of the target’s same organizational account."In these quarantined times it's natural to experience an uptick in personal wine consumption. That hasn't gone unnoticed by scammers, who according to new research from Recorded Future and Area 1 Security have increasingly registered malicious domains targeting oenophiles. At its June peak, malicious domains comprised 7 percent of all wine-themed domains registered. Talk about ... sour ... grapes.More Great WIRED StoriesMost Popular is Executive Editor, News at WIRED, overseeing day to day coverage across the site. Prior to WIRED he was the editor in chief of the tech and culture site Gizmodo and was a business reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s largest daily newspaper.

the revelation that Facebook leaked the data of 500 million users—including phone numbers and other potentially sensitive info—and the company still hasn't given a full account of what happened. But we've managed to figure out both that the , and that before it resulted in attackers scraping half a billion people's data.On Thursday, federal agents arrested a 28-year-old Texas man for . According to court documents, he had made alarming posts on the forums at MyMilitia.com, which someone then reported to the FBI. While it's a concerning incident, domestic terror experts say there are no...

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