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Last week was an online security nightmare and few people noticed. Here’s what you need to know. Mr. Warzel is an Opinion writer at large. Ms. Jeong is a member of the editorial board. ImageCreditCreditPhilippe Huguen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images This article is part of a limited-run newsletter. You can sign up here. Instead…
President-elect Donald J. Trump left One World Trade Center after a meeting on Friday. Credit Lucas Jackson/Reuters WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia directed a vast cyberattack aimed at denying Hillary Clinton the presidency and installing Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office, the nation’s top intelligence agencies said in an extraordinary report…
A Yahoo conference last year. The company said it discovered a 2013 attack after analyzing files provided by law enforcement. Credit Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo, already reeling from its September disclosure that 500 million user accounts had been hacked in 2014, disclosed Wednesday that a different attack in 2013 compromised more than…
Photo “The whole birther movement was racist,” Colin Powell wrote in an email to a former aide that has been leaked. He noted that Donald J. Trump once questioned the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate. Credit Kazuhiro Nogi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who served as…