Collaborate Disseminate
The proposed law comes as police departments around the country for their use of facial recognition to identify allegedly violent Black Lives Matter protesters. Continue reading Senate Bill Would Expand Facial-Recognition Restrictions Nationwide
Threat actors shift focus from COVID-19 to employee coronavirus training and current events like Black Lives Matter as cyber-attacks continue to rise. Continue reading Office 365 Users Targeted By ‘Coronavirus Employee Training’ Phish
An open letter signed by experts in the field from MIT, Microsoft and Google aim to stop the ‘tech to prison’ pipeline. Continue reading Experts Denounce Racial Bias of Crime-Predictive Facial-Recognition AI
Black Lives Matter is the latest hook bad actors are using to persuade people to open email attachments containing malware, according to Bitdefender’s telemetry. Criminals use any new massive event to accelerate the spread of various malware camp… Continue reading Black Lives Matter-Related Spam Used to Deploy Malware
Malspam emails are claiming to deliver a survey on BLM — but in reality they deliver the infamous banking trojan. Continue reading Black Lives Matter Emails Deliver TrickBot Malware
The email says it will let you have your say anonymously about Black Lives Matter. Continue reading Crooks hijack “Black Lives Matter” to spread zombie malware
The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last week prompted Leroy Terrelonge to do something he had never done: vividly recall all of his experiences with racism since youth. “I was surprised by how incidents that I had buried deep suddenly surged back to my memory and hurt all over again,” said Terrelonge, 34, a black cyber-risk analyst at Moody’s. “I imagined how they could have taken a wrong turn under certain circumstances and I, too, could be dead.” Terrelonge is one of millions of black Americans experiencing Floyd’s death in visceral ways. He’s also one of many cybersecurity professionals searching for the right balance between work and advancing social justice. The daily grind of reverse-engineering malware feels trivial when police are teargassing peaceful protesters, neighborhoods are in flames and opportunists unaffiliated with black social-justice causes are violently exploiting the unrest. “Information security is not often a matter of life or death, even for those […]
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“An innocent man died. And a guilty one lives freely.” Continue reading Hacktivist Breaks Into Minnesota Government Databases to Protest Philando Castile Verdict
The Web lets anyone be a publisher—or a vigilante. Continue reading 117 attacks (and counting)—Black Lives Matter’s fight to stay online
Facebook and Twitter are allowing law enforcement to manipulate their public image. Continue reading Police Brutality Is a Campaign Issue, So Departments Ignore It on Social Media