Collaborate Disseminate
The illegal use of hacking tools by the Mexican government against activists and reporters has become a systematic policy of intimidation and harassment. Continue reading Mexico Hacking and Spying on Its Citizens Is a ‘Human Rights Crisis’
A broad network of websites and social media accounts is creating confusion after every crisis event. Continue reading Mapping the World of #FalseFlag Conspiracy Theories on Social Media
A recent Atlantic story set a daily traffic record, but most people read it in bits and pieces, while eagerly sharing. Continue reading How Does an 8,000 Word Story Go Viral?
A recent Atlantic story set a daily traffic record, but most people read it in bits and pieces, while eagerly sharing. Continue reading How Does an 8,000 Word Story Go Viral?
Hackers working for the Russian government sent a barrage of targeted phishing emails between 2014 and 2016 to employees of major news outlets, and they focused particularly on Al Jazeera in the days before and shortly following the U.S. presidential election, according to new research by cybersecurity firm Trend Micro. It’s unclear exactly why the elite team of hackers — known as APT-28, Fancy Bear or Pawn Storm — focused so heavily on the Qatar-based, state-funded global broadcaster during that short window. Like other news agencies targeted over the longer two-year span, including the New York Times and Buzzfeed, the award-winning outlet covered the election in detail and dedicated a section of its website to election-night coverage. Trend Micro’s Forward-looking Threat Research, or FTR, team said staff at Al Jazeera were repeatedly sent phishing emails with deceptive links, including “account-aljazeera.net” and “sset-aljazeera.net.” The subject line for some emails sent by the hacking […]
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Since 2013, The Associated Press has been making an intentional effort to put data in the hands of local reporters. In the last few years, this meant assisting with Freedom of Information Act requests and putting a team of four engineers to work … Continue reading The Associated Press’ plan to put hyperlocal data in the hands of reporters
As the history of digital media has become subsumed by the history of the internet, teletext remains largely forgotten. Yet like a fair-weather psychic, the technology anticipated things to come. Continue reading The Secret History of a Fleeting Pre-Internet Digital Media Channel
Journalists sometimes need to work under a veil of anonymity, and in the 21st century, that often means visiting websites without anyone knowing that a major investigation is underway. It’s not always easy. One newly reexamined court document shows that the subject of a New York Times investigation was tipped off because the news organization’s IP repeatedly showed […]
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Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook discuss security-wise what they hope will and won’t change under a Trump presidency, then discuss the news of the week, including SHA-1 deprecation, Carbanak’s return, and the WhatsApp “backdoor” debacle. Continue reading Threatpost News Wrap, January 20, 2017
A highlight of some of our favorite stories from the year that was (it sure was something). Continue reading The Best of Motherboard 2016