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Andrew Blake

ablake@washingtontimes.com

Andrew Blake was a cybersecurity reporter for The Washington Times.

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This Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013, photo shows Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google on Monday, Aug. 10, 2015 announced it is changing its operating structure and will become part of a holding company called Alphabet. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Google blames data loss at Belgium facility on electrical storm

Google says that a lightning storm in Belgium last week caused electrical outages to occur at one of its data centers. The Silicon Valley giant is now upgrading some of its equipment after admitting that a small amount of user data was irreversibly lost as a result.

August 20, 2015
This Feb. 1, 2011, file photo shows medical marijuana clone plants at a medical marijuana dispensary in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Judge says marijuana dispensary video can be used in probe of California police

Surveillance video showing the police raid of a medical marijuana dispensary in California can be used by investigators, a judge has ruled, curbing law enforcement's efforts to keep the video from being entered as evidence in the probe concerning the conduct of the officers involved in the operation.

August 20, 2015

‘Drinkable Book’ uses space-age pages to filter bacteria from water

Never mind eliminating illiteracy. A scientist's new book project in the works isn't geared towards bookworms, but rather the hundreds of millions of people without access to clean water -- and the author says the technology involved in printing the final product could end a global crisis.

August 19, 2015
In this June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian Newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the National Security Agency, in Hong Kong. (AP Photo/The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, File)

Smashed laptops once containing Snowden secrets pose privacy questions, researchers say

When British intelligence ordered the destruction of laptops containing copies of Edward Snowden's trove of stolen files in 2013, the U.K.'s efforts were scoffed at by many as merely symbolic. Now two researchers say an analysis of what is left of those computers raises questions about what it means to delete a file in the digital age.

August 18, 2015
In this Nov. 19, 2014, file photo, BMW introduces the X6 M during the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

Car hacker finds flaws in Mercedes, BMW, Chrysler systems

Two weeks after a security researcher revealed how he could remotely control upwards of millions of GM automobiles by exploiting a vulnerability with its OnStar navigation systems, the hacker now says that cars sold by Mercedes-Benz, BMW and Chrysler are similarly susceptible to attack.

August 14, 2015
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‘Privacy Visor’ goggles trick facial recognition tech

Scientists in Japan say they're preparing to release a "Privacy Visor," an over-the-ear contraption that's worn like ordinary eyeglasses but modeled to make it difficult for facial recognition technology to identify whomever is underneath.

August 12, 2015