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Via Mediaite: After months of praising Russian leader Vladimir Putin and bragging about having once met, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed Tuesday that they had never even met at all. “I have nothing to do with Russia,” Trump maintained in an interview with CBS’s Miami affiliate. “I never met Putin, nothing to do with Russia.” But in November’s Fox …

Reuters reports: The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed allegations Russia had hacked Democratic Party emails as “horror stories” dreamt up by U.S. politicians, saying it never interfered in other countries’ election campaigns. “Moscow is at pains to avoid any words that could be interpreted as direct or indirect interference in the election process,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call …

Politico reports: Donald Trump lashed out at the New York Times early Wednesday morning over the newspaper’s reporting appearing to show that the Russian government is trying to impact the presidential election in his favor. “Funny how the failing @nytimes is pushing Dems narrative that Russia is working for me because Putin said ‘Trump is a genius. America 1st!” Trump …

The New York Times reports: Six weeks before the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks published an archive of hacked Democratic National Committee emails ahead of the Democratic convention, the organization’s founder, Julian Assange, foreshadowed the release — and made it clear that he hoped to harm Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning the presidency. Mr. Assange’s remarks in a June 12 interview underscored …

In the wake of the DNC email hack, many news outlets are scrutinizing the long-running relationships that Donald Trump has with Russia’s business elite and the government of Vladimir Putin. The Hill reports: Fox News contributor George Will says GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will not release his tax returns because they may show “he is deeply involved in dealing …

Politico reports: Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook suggested Sunday that internal DNC emails leaked last week were an effort from the Russians to help Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. “What’s disturbing to us is that experts are telling us Russian state actors broke into the DNC, stole these emails, and other experts are now saying that the Russians are …

The Trump campaign has refused to comment. NBC News reports: The Democratic National Committee’s computer network was breached by Russian government cyber operations that have had access to the group’s communications and databases since at least last summer, NBC News confirms. The sophisticated Russian groups, which have previously targeted the White House, the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of …

At least they didn’t get his Facebook account. Via Gizmodo: First the hackers came for Katy Perry. Now they’ve come for someone who should know better than to use the same password on multiple sites: Mark Zuckerberg. Turns out he’s as dumb as the rest of us. Zuck’s Twitter and Pinterest (though, crucially, not Facebook) accounts were hacked over the …

Apple CEO Tim Cook today issued a lengthy public letter which forcefully denounces a federal court’s order that his company provide the means to hack the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino terrorists.  The Associated Press reports: Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook says his company will fight a federal magistrate’s order to hack its users in connection with the …

Via the Mirror: Hacker group Anonymous have declared war against ISIS after the attacks in Paris on Friday night. Posting a video on YouTube, the group said it would use its knowledge to “unite humanity” and warned the terrorists to “expect us”. Behind their signature mask, a spokesperson speaking in French said: “Anonymous from all over the world will hunt …

The gay community may have dodged a huge bullet as it’s being reported that Ashley Madison execs were seriously considering buying Grindr before their hacking scandal. Forbes reports: Amongst the masses of emails dumped by The Impact Team, a group of hackers who have made a mockery of Ashley Madison’s digital defences this month, are a handful of conversations showing …

The hackers who last week shoved Ashley Madison into the global headlines have yet another big reveal. Gizmodo reports: The revelation is buried in what hackers say is 30-gigabytes of [Ashley Madison CEO Neil] Biderman’s emails. One of those emails is from Ashley Madison’s founding CTO, Raja Bhatia, who claims to have hacked Nerve.com’s then-new dating website. Security expert Brian …

Holy Family Duggar Research Duggar Council Duggar! Gawker has found TWO paid Ashley Madison accounts for Josh Duggar among the millions of user profiles released today by hackers. They write: Josh himself took to his family’s Facebook page to absolve himself of his past indiscretions and assure the world he was back on a righteous path. But data released online …

Hackers have followed through on their threat and posted user data from millions of Ashley Madison accounts. Wired reports: A data dump, 9.7 gigabytes in size, was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser. The files appear to include account details and log-ins for some 32 million users of the …

Via the Associated Press: The parent company of Ashley Madison, a matchmaking website for cheating spouses, says it was hacked and that the personal information of some of its users was posted online. In addition, the person or persons behind the attack are threatening to release all of the site’s personal information — including its members’ sexual fantasies and financial …

The normally staid SCOTUSblog fired out some interesting tweets last night.

Via the Indianapolis Star: The State of Indiana’s website was apparently hacked in response to Gov. Mike Pence’s signing of a controversial “religious freedom” bill. The state’s website, www.in.gov, had been down for several hours, according to readers, before coming back online after 3 p.m. An individual using the Twitter handle @YourVikingdom is claiming responsibility. “@IN_gov enjoy your website being …

Via the Washington Post: Social media accounts for the U.S. military’s Central Command appeared to have been hacked on Monday, with the command posting threatening messages on Twitter and YouTube to American troops. The first rogue tweet was posted about 12:30 p.m. It appeared to come from sympathizers with the Islamic State militant group. CENTCOM has orchestrated the U.S.-led airstrike …

Via Reuters: North Korea called U.S. President Barack Obama a “monkey” and blamed Washington on Saturday for Internet outages that it has experienced during a confrontation with the United States over the hacking of the film studio Sony Pictures. The National Defence Commission, the North’s ruling body, chaired by state leader Kim Jong Un, said Obama was responsible for Sony’s …

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