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A 2021 intelligence funding draft bill mandates a report on surveillance vendors and which countries or other actors are using spyware. Continue reading Congress wants to know who is using spyware against the US
A third-party cybersecurity firm were paid to drill a hole in a Tor-reliant operating system to uncover a man who spent years sextorting young girls. Continue reading Facebook paid for a 0-day to help FBI unmask child predator
Multiple hijacked YouTube accounts impersonated Elon Musk’s Space X channel in a Bitcoin scheme that ripped off a total of more than $163,000. Continue reading Bitcoin scammers take YouTube channels for a SpaceX ride
Can you tell whether you’re talking to a human or AI? Continue reading ‘Bot or Not?’ – a game to train us to spot chatbots faking it as humans
Facebook users will see notices labeling “state-controlled media”, based on criteria such as funding, editorial independence, ownership structure and more. Continue reading Facebook labels ‘state-controlled’ Russian, Chinese, Iranian media
Attackers hacked and encrypted the computers of a contractor whose clients include the US military, government agencies and major military contractors. Continue reading Nuclear missile contractor hacked in Maze ransomware attack
The US rail service hasn’t disclosed the number of passengers affected in a 16 April breach.
Continue reading Amtrak breached, some customers’ logins and PII potentially exposed
Some 7,600 dark-web sites were obliterated in an attack on the most popular provider of .onion free hosting services, Daniel’s Hosting. Continue reading Hacker posts database stolen from Dark Net free hosting provider DH
Hopefully it’s a COVID-19 version of what it did post-2016 elections, when it required verification of those buying political or issue ads. Continue reading Facebook to verify identities on accounts that churn out viral posts
Maps, weather, searches et al. suck up location data in the background, even if Tracking is turned off. Arizona says it’s consumer fraud. Continue reading Google sued by Arizona for tracking users’ locations in spite of settings