Richard Lawler

After years of providing breach notifications and useful advice about how to avoid getting hacked, Have I Been Pwned operator Troy Hunt’s personal blog mailing list has become the source of a breach after he fell for a fake spam alert phishing attack this week. He has notified subscribers, and is following up for people who unsubscribed but still had data stored by his provider, Mailchimp.

While claiming that The Atlantic “is going to be out of business soon,” Trump commented on the Signal group chat scandal in a Newsmax interview Tuesday night.

A day after The Atlantic EIC Jeffrey Goldberg revealed he’d been inadvertently included in a group message on Signal where Trump admin officials discussed details of an upcoming military strike, CBS News reports on an NSA warning from February that the app isn’t approved for “nonpublic unclassified” information. Despite testimony today that no classified material was shared, the NSA noted the danger posed by Russian phishing campaigns attempting to add a linked device and bypass Signal’s encryption for surveillance.

More than 25 years ago, Napster opened a music IP can of worms, and long after the lawsuits ended, its zombified name has stuck around for connections to iHeartRadio, Rhapsody, and NFTs. Now CNBC reports that something called Infinite Reality has bought the brand, intending to market metaverse music experiences where it will “...create virtual 3D spaces that allow music fans to enjoy concerts or listening parties together, and let musicians or labels sell physical and virtual merchandise.”

Reuters, Chosun Biz, and other outlets report that Samsung confirmed the executive died on Tuesday in Seoul after suffering a heart attack over the weekend.

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