The past week brought a heaping helping of not so comforting cybersecurity news, starting with President Donald Trump's apparent plans to pull out of the Cold War-era Open Skies treaty. We explained why that would be as bad an idea as it sounds. But that's just for starters.
We also took a look at how planting a spy bug on IT hardware is a lot easier—and cheaper—than you might assume. Also cheap and easy: Russia's cross-platform disinformation assault during the 2016 election, as comprehensively laid out in a new report from the Senate Intelligence Committee this week. The conclusion is the same as it has been for over a year, but is no less important for it: Russia's still at it, and the US isn't doing enough to stop it.
Also not doing enough: Twitter, which this week acknowledged that it had fed user phone numbers provided for two-factor authentication into its ad-targeting engine. This is bad! But maybe not unexpected, given how little the big tech platforms care about your privacy and security, especially compared to their profits. A less cut-and-dried controversy is swirling around the nascent idea of encrypting Domain Name System lookups, which both Google Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox support. Some security professionals argue that it makes it harder to defend networks against certain attacks, while offering minimal benefit.
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