VPNFilter malware infecting 500,000 consumer devices is worse than we thought

"The FBI recommended that all owners of consumer-grade routers, switches, and network-attached storage devices reboot their devices. While the advice likely disrupted VPNFilter’s advance and bought infected users time, it may also have created the mistaken belief that rebooting alone was enough to fully remove VPNFilter from infected devices."

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N.S.A. Says It’s Purging Millions of Illegally Gathered Call and Text Records

"The agency had collected the data from a system it created under the USA Freedom Act. Congress enacted that law in 2015 to end and replace a once-secret program that had systematically collected Americans’ domestic calling records in bulk."

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ICE whistleblower gets a visit from Homeland Security goons during TV interview

"Before the surprise visit, Schwab told Yuccas that both the Obama and Trump White Houses asked him to 'spin' information. But he said he felt compelled to resign after the current administration told him to lie about an incident that pitted the government against Oakland's mayor."

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