Last week a malicious computer worm dubbed WannaCry 2.0 began attacking older, unpatched versions of Microsoft operating systems, with ransomware that held user data hostage in exchange for Bitcoin payments. The cyberattack used code from a powerful National Security Agency tool called EternalBlue, which a mysterious group of hackers known as The Shadow Brokers leaked earlier this year.

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Tech companies have been quick to blame the NSA for finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in commercial products like Windows, to say nothing of losing them. On Sunday,, Microsoft’s president and chief legal officer, that an “equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the U.S. Military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen.” The next day, Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, speaking via video chat to the K(NO)W Identity Conference in Washington D.C.

From an undisclosed location in Russia, Smith’s argument. “An equivalent scenario to what we’re seeing happening today would be conventional weapons, produced and held by the U.S. Military, being stolen, such as Tomahawk missiles,” Snowden said while describing Smith’s letter to a crowd less than a mile from the White House. Edward Snowden speaking via video chat from Russia at the K(NO)W Identity Conference in Washington, D.C.

(image: One World Identity) More U.S. Officials acknowledge that the NSA deserves scrutiny about protecting tools it develops to collect foreign intelligence. “They’ve absolutely got to do a better job protecting [the hacking tools],” General Keith Alexander, head of the NSA from 2005 to 2014, The Washington Post. “You can’t argue against that.” However, the Tomahawk analogy may be a stretch. Dave Aitel, a former NSA research scientist and CEO of the cybersecurity company, explained why hacking tools are not like bombs. “The very first thing is you can steal a Tomahawk missile from me, but you cannot steal it from me without me knowing you’ve stolen it,” Aitel said. “And of course, you can steal an exploit or other intellectual property from me and I may never find out.

Another is that two people can have [the same exploit] at the same time.” Aitel, who specializes in the offensive side of cybersecurity, added that “deep down, the biggest difference is that you have to learn a lot about exploits to protect yourself, and I don’t really have to learn a lot about Tomahawk missiles to protect myself from Tomahawk missiles.”. This is the screen you’ll see if your computer is infected with the WannaCry 2.0 ransomware. More Nevertheless, the analogy has been relatively well received.

Travis Jarae, CEO and Founder of One World Identity, which hosted the conference in Washington, and to digitally host Snowden, said that the Tomahawk analogy is “not wrong” given the contemporary threat environment. “Warfare is digital,” explained Jarae, who was previously Global Head of Identity Verification at Google. Toy Defense Keygen Mac. “We spy on people digitally I thought it was a little aggressive to compare it to a missile, but [government hacking] is very damaging.“ noted that it makes sense why Smith and others in the tech business would make that argument.

“[Brad Smith’s] job is to create favorable economic conditions for Microsoft at a strategic level, and if he pressure governments to stop using exploits, then that helps him from a PR perspective,” Aitel said. “It doesn’t help the users because people are still going to have exploits. That’s always going to be true.”. Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith speaks at a Microsoft tech gathering in Dublin, Ireland October 3, 2016. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne More Snowden also echoed Smith’s criticisms of the U.S.

Government’s decision to develop secret software exploits, telling the audience at the K(NO)W Identity Conference that secret government exploits are a problem, and the NSA should have voluntarily revealed the EternalBlue exploit long ago. But other former NSA officials have pushed back against that idea, the Washington Post that EternalBlue netted an “unreal” foreign intelligence haul that was like “fishing with dynamite.” “Edward Snowden knows full well the value of the signals intelligence program — and that includes the NSA’s hacking — to our national security,” Aitel said. “This is not for play. They’re not building exploits for fun. It’s not a hobby. It’s for distinct and important national security needs. “So when he says ‘Give up your exploits,’ he essentially is saying, ‘We don’t need signals intelligence,’ which we do.” Ultimately, according to Aitel, companies like Microsoft placing the blame on the NSA with crude analogies equating NSA hacking tools to U.S.

Cruise missiles only serves to muddy the larger debate. Newsweek With lawmakers poised to pass the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—a sweeping tax reform package—many individuals and families will see very different tax bills come 2018 and beyond.

Well, on net, most Americans will see a significant tax cut, including virtually all lower- and middle-income workers and a majority of upper-income earners. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will, on average, provide immediate tax cuts across all income groups, according to analysis from Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation. Fortune Apple on Wednesday responded to reports that older iPhones with low-capacity batteries are often slow. Lithium-ion batteries become less capable of supplying peak current demands when in cold conditions, have a low battery charge or as they age over time, which can result in the device unexpectedly shutting down to protect its electronic components. “Last year we released a feature for iPhone 6, iPhone 6s and iPhone SE to smooth out the instantaneous peaks only when needed to prevent the device from unexpectedly shutting down during these conditions. Quartz North Korea has long been one of the most secretive nations in the world, and making predictions about it has, correspondingly, long been inadvisable.

Keeping that in mind, we’ll make one here anyway: 2018 is when something finally gives on North Korea—one way or another. It’s unlikely that next year will offer a mere continuation of events in 2017, with North Korea testing ever more advanced weapons, the UN and various nations applying ever stricter sanctions against it, and the rhetoric between Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un—or “dotard” and “little rocket man”—escalating ever higher. It seems likely, meanwhile, that North Korea will soon be able to reach all of the US with nuclear weapons that can survive long rocket journeys in working order. Time Just 36% of registered voters would support President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election, a new poll finds, a precipitous drop from the 46% of votes he received last year. According to the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday, just 18% of registered voters would definitely vote for the President in 2020, and 18% would “probably” vote for him.

Thirty-eight percent surveyed said they would vote for the Democratic candidate, and 14% said they would probably vote for the Democratic candidate. AFP Bitcoin prices plunged about 15 percent in Asian trade Wednesday before recouping some of the losses as investors apparently took fright at news that a South Korean exchange had been hacked. The unit, which hit a record $19,500 at the start of the week, took a hit as it emerged that South Korean exchange Youbit had been hacked, leading the firm to say it will close and start bankruptcy proceedings, according to Bloomberg News. The Crypto Company's share price had risen 1,700 percent between the end of September and Monday evening before the Securities Exchange Commission intervened to halt trades until January 4.

Fortune The GOP’s new tax bill, which passed Congress on Wednesday afternoon after one last vote in the House of Representatives and will be signed by President Donald Trump, is also a health care bill. The tax bill does at least as much (if not more) to upend Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, than even all of the Trump administration’s thousand cuts to the health law over the past year by repealing the individual mandate.

Which raises the question: Just what is the Obamacare individual mandate? ABC News When it comes time to buy an upscale fastback sedan, most people naturally consider models from European luxury brands. For 2018, though, those car shoppers have another option: the 2018 Kia Stinger. Yes, that's right, a vehicle from the South Korean automaker known for affordability — and one with a name that could have been cribbed from a Nerf gun.

While Kia's vehicle lineup is still primarily focused on value, the automaker has shown it's not afraid of thinking big. Its K900 sedan has challenged other large luxury sedans, for instance, and it has hired well-known styling and engineering talent away from Audi and BMW. So how good is it?

Interestingly, Audi has just come out with two great vehicles •. Fortune For that market and brand leadership, Apple has routinely commanded the highest prices (and fattest profit margins) within each category for which it has products. While Apple's core hardware products--iPhones, iMacs, and Macbooks--continue to thrive year after year, some of Apple's 2017 releases haven't earned, for me, the hefty price tags they carry. This isn't unique to its tablet, but Apple's insistence on bifurcating its product lines into weird names and numbers (and 'Pro' lines) continues to frustrate me.