How Alphabet is working to stop election cyber attacks (The 3:59, Ep. 403)
Plus: CIA leaker and Twitter trolls.
Ben Fox Rubin Former senior reporter
Ben Fox Rubin was a senior reporter for CNET News in Manhattan, reporting on Amazon, e-commerce and mobile payments. He previously worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and got his start at newspapers in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
On this podcast, we talk about:
- Google parent Alphabet is making Project Shield, which protects against distributed denial-of-service attacks, available for election campaigns and candidates.
- A former CIA employee was named as suspected leaker of CIA hacking tools.
- Twitter is working to clean up its social network a little more, using "behavioral signals" to cut out trolls.
Watch this: How Alphabet is working to stop election cyber attacks (The 3:59, Ep. 403)
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