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In this Sept. 24, 2017, file photo people use Microsoft Hololens
to get an impression of Mercedes accessories on the stand of
Mercedes-Benz during the first media day of the International
Frankfurt Motor Show IAA in Frankfurt, Germany.
Associated Press

Army wants

Microsoft's HoloLens

Journalist Emma Best poses for a photograph in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018.
Associated Press headsets for battlefield

Leak site's launch shows By The Associated Press

dilemma of radical transparency Virtual- and augmented-reality headsets haven't had
much traction in the consumer market, but they're find-
ing a place on the battlefield.
The U.S. Army said Thursday that it has awarded Micro-
By RAPHAEL SATTER more than 1 terabyte of formation from such inci- soft a $480 million contract to supply its HoloLens head-
AP Cybersecurity Writer data from many of the dents was sinking into "the sets to soldiers.
LONDON (AP) — A new highest-profile leaks from quicksand of the internet," The head-mounted displays use augmented reality,
leak website is wrestling the past decade, includ- but she said preserving lists which means viewers can see virtual imagery superim-
with what to make avail- ing stolen documents re- of passwords and user data posed over the real-world scenery in front of them. Mi-
able to the public, an illus- leased by the Anonymous made little historical sense. crosoft says the technology will provide troops with bet-
tration of the difficulty of movement of digital vigi- "I just don't see any justifica- ter information to make decisions.
balancing full transparency lantes, leaks organized by tion," she said. The Redmond, Washington, company says the new
with respect for privacy in the pseudonymous hacker Best acknowledged being work extends its longstanding relationship with the De-
an age of mass disclosures. Phineas Phisher and more uncomfortable with the partment of Defense.
The site, dubbed Distrib- recent disclosures by the Ashley Madison data but Military bidding documents say the technology will be
uted Denial of Secrets, is media collective Unicorn argued that any sensitive used for both training and fighting, bringing more situ-
aimed at capturing the Riot. More controversially, material was "stale and is ational awareness to troops to help them become more
cascade of leaked data the site also included giga- now only useable for his- lethal and mobile.q
coursing through the web, bytes worth of username torical purposes." She said
securing it for researchers and password data, as well it was hard to predict how
and journalists before it dis- as copies of highly sensitive useful data could even- Russian hackers use
appears amid the digital leaks including the Ashley tually be, pointing to a
churn of the internet. Madison material and data number of academic stud- Brexit in phishing
But the content of Denial drawn from the religious ies based on the Ashley
of Secrets' library — includ- dating site Muslim Match in Madison leak. Eventually, email, experts warn
ing tranches of data from 2016 . she and her colleagues
the infidelity website Ashley The site initially met with changed their approach;
Madison — drew criticism skepticism. the site's public debut was LONDON (AP) — Cybersecurity experts at consulting firm
ahead of its public debut "You should not be hosting delayed as some of the Accenture are warning that Russian hackers are using
Monday. The site's found- the Ashley Madison hack," most controversial mate- public interest in Brexit as a lure in their latest phishing
ers eventually decided to said Joseph Cox, who has rial was removed, including emails.
pull from its public collec- regularly covered data the Ashley Madison and The company's security division issued an advisory Thurs-
tion the haul from the Ash- breaches for Motherboard, Muslim Match files. day about a Brexit-themed document intended to de-
ley Madison site along with Vice's technology publi- Best said the data would liver malware to targets.
more than a dozen other cation. "Ordinary people now be made available to Accenture said the Microsoft Word file started circulat-
leaks. have killed themselves over researchers privately on a ing the same day this month that the British government
"The criticism and feed- this data." case-by-case basis, a de- agreed on a draft of its agreement to leave the Euro-
back is what prompted us Both Cox and Gabriella cision that mollified some pean Union.
to change," said journal- Coleman, a McGill Universi- critics. The document had Brexit in its file name but contained
ist Emma Best, the site's de ty anthropologist known for "Much better," said Cole- only garbled text used to trick users into activating a
facto spokesperson. her in-depth work on Anon- man after reviewing the macro command to load malicious content.
The move, she added, was ymous, said they could see newly pared-back site. "Ex- Accenture said it appears the cyberattackers were
"half playing it safe and half a use for an online reposi- actly the model we might Russian based on software used in previous hacking at-
just a practical measure." tory of major leaks. want."q tempts. It added that they often use news headlines to
Denial of Secrets carries Coleman worried that in- trick victims.q