States Need Way More Money to Fix Crumbling Voting Machines

“We are driving the same car in 2019 that we were driving in 2004, and the maintenance costs are mounting,” one South Carolina election official told researchers.

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https://www.wired.com/story/states-money-fix-crumbling-voting-machines

Google Reveals "BuggyCow," a Rare MacOS Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google's Project Zero researchers find a potentially powerful privilege escalation trick in how Macs manage memory.

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https://www.wired.com/story/google-project-zero-buggycow-macos-zero-day

Backstory: An Alphabet Moonshot Wants to Store the Security Industry's Data

Alphabet-owned Chronicle has announced Backstory, an effort to store network intelligence data and help trace cybersecurity incidents back to their roots.

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https://www.wired.com/story/chronicle-backstory-network-intelligence-data

House Probes Cambridge Analytica on Russia and WikiLeaks

The Democrats’ sweeping new investigation into Trump includes the now-defunct consulting firm better known for misusing the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans.

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https://www.wired.com/story/congress-democrats-trump-inquiry-cambridge-analytica

The Overlooked Security Threat of Sign-In Kiosks

New research from IBM shows that several visitor management systems had a rash of vulnerabilities.

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https://www.wired.com/story/visitor-management-system-vulnerabilities

The Air Force Wants to Give You Its Credit Card

Will Roper, acquisition executive for the US Air Force, talks to WIRED's editor-in-chief about making the military more adaptive, the role of AI, and what he worries about every day.

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https://www.wired.com/story/will-roper-air-force-interview

Trump's North Korea Summit Inspires Spearphishing

Plus: cryptocurrency dust problems for #DeleteCoinbase, leaked financial watch lists, and more of the week's top security news.

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https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-north-korean-hackers-spearfishing