Raphael Satter

Associated Press
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Brexit
Leaked Memos Warn of Shortages in Brexit
Among the concerns are a decrease in the availability of fresh food, and fresh water shortages due to possible interruptions of water treatment chemicals.
Aug 19th, 2019
Cellular site equipment in London. According to Boston-based Cybereason, a group of state-backed hackers has been burrowing into all kinds of telecommunications companies in order to spy on high-profile targets across the world.
Hackers Using Telecoms Like 'Global Spy System'
High-profile politicians and military leaders wouldn't have even known they were being targeted.
Jun 25th, 2019
This image captured on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 shows part of a LinkedIn profile for someone who identified themselves as Katie Jones. The Associated Press has found it is one of many phantom profiles that lurk on the social media platform.
Spy Used AI to Connect with Targets
Katie Jones doesn't exist
Jun 14th, 2019
Certfa researchers Nariman Gharib, left, and Amin Sabeti look at a computer at a cafe in London on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. The Associated Press drew on data gathered by the London-based cybersecurity group Certfa to track how a hacking group often nicknamed Charming Kitten spent the past month trying to break into the private emails of more than a dozen U.S. Treasury officials. Also on the hackers’ hit list: high-profile defenders, detractors and enforcers of the nuclear deal struck between Washington and Tehran, as well as Arab atomic scientists, Iranian civil society figures and D.C. think tank employees.
Hackers Hunt Nuke Workers
Researchers uncovered a list of targets.
Dec 13th, 2018
In this Thursday, May 15, 2008 file photo former South African President Nelson Mandela, right, meets with British scientist Professor Stephen Hawking, left, in Johannesburg. Hawking, whose brilliant mind ranged across time and space though his body was paralyzed by disease, has died, a family spokesman said early Wednesday, March 14, 2018.
Stephen Hawking Dies at 76
The man defied ALS to become pre-eminent physicist.
Mar 14th, 2018
This combination of photos shows an Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter jet, left, an MQ-9 Reaper/'Predator B' drone, right, and an X-37B unmanned spacecraft, bottom. Data supplied by the cybersecurity firm Secureworks shows Fancy Bear’s hacking targets included defense contractor employees at Lockheed Martin, General Atomics, and Boeing, involved in the development of these systems.
Russian Hackers Exploited Cyber Weakness
Employees at defense giants like Lockheed Martin Corp., Raytheon Co., Boeing Co., Airbus Group and General Atomics were targeted.
Feb 7th, 2018
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Researchers Find Grid-Wrecking Software
The software can remotely sabotage circuit breakers, switches and protection relays.
Jun 12th, 2017
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks in this video made available Thursday March 9, 2017. Assange said his group will work with technology companies to help defeat the Central Intelligence Agency's hacking tools. Assange says 'we have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access to some of the technical details we have, so that fixes can be pushed out.'
WikiLeaks Helps Tech Firms
Julian Assange says WikiLeaks will help tech companies defend against the CIA's hacking tools.
Mar 9th, 2017
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Yahoo Issues Another Warning
The catastrophic breach raised questions about Yahoo's security and destabilized the company's deal with Verizon.
Feb 16th, 2017
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Experts: Destructive Hacks are Coming
Cybersecurity experts long worried that hackers can hijack the vulnerable industrial control systems to wreak havoc in power plants, traffic systems, factories, dams or reservoirs.
Oct 20th, 2016
In his June 6, 2013 file photo, the National Security Agency (NSA) campus in Fort Meade, Md. The leak of what purports to be a National Security Agency hacking tool kit has set the information security world atwitter — and sent major companies rushing to update their defenses. Experts across the world are still examining what amount to electronic lock picks. Here's what they've found so far.
NSA Tool 'Auction'
Shadow Brokers' 'best files' will be released, they claim, to whoever wins the auction.
Aug 18th, 2016
French officials fell over each other to congratulate themselves. The focus — as often in France — was on the employment opportunities it was expected to bring.
Submarine Contract Worth $43B Finds Home
It is the largest defense contract ever handed out by Australia, which was in the market for nextgen submarines.
Apr 26th, 2016