Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago ProPublica/Gizmodo Reporters, armed with a two-foot wireless antenna, tested the Internet security at four Trump properties, including the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach and the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J. They found that the Wi-Fi networks were weakly encrypted and vulnerable to potential hacking attacks. NSA Officials Worried About Potent Hacking Tool Getting Out, Then It Did Washington Post National Security Agency officials marveled at the power and potential of a hacking tool they created called EternalBlue. But the system had a dangerous flaw and officials worried about the widespread havoc it could wreak if it ever got loose. Now those fears have been realized: The coding at the heart of the recent "WannaCry" ransomware attack was stolen and repackaged from the NSA tool for use in cyberwarfare. U.S. Hacker Linked to Fake Macron Documents, Says Cybersecurity Firm Wall Street Journal A group of cybersecurity experts say they have unearthed ties between an American hacker who maintains a neo-Nazi website and an internet campaign to smear Emmanuel Macron days before he was elected president of France. A Heroic, Legendary and Treasonous Israeli Spy The Atavist Magazine Yehuda Gil was one of the greatest spies the Mossad had ever seen. He hunted down and executed members of the terrorist group Black September after the Munich Olympics massacre in 1972. Then he was charged with fabricating the intelligence that had brought Israel to the brink of war with Syria in 1996. An Israeli investigative journalist pieces together the story of what some call a sociopathic "evil genius." Hungary: Orban Family's Wealth Grew From EU-Funded Projects Direkt36 An investigation by Hungarian journalists found that companies owned by the father and two brothers of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have profited handsomely from several European Union-funded construction projects. "These companies were not the winners of the public tenders," the article says, "but participated in them as suppliers of the companies contracted by the state." Taxpayer-Funded Rent for Two N.Y. Lawmakers Looks Pricey Observer Representatives Grace Meng and Gregory Meeks rent campaign offices in the same buildings as their taxpayer-funded congressional offices—and pay far less to their landlords than the government does. In Meeks's case the difference appears to be as much as $9,000 a month. Another mystery: Why is the office reported as Suite 535 when the physical address is a three-story building? |