Collaborate Disseminate
It’s found and banned thousands more automated Russian accounts, and it’s planning for detecting such accounts better in time for mid-terms. Continue reading Twitter will email 677,775 users who engaged with Russian election trolls
Imagine it’s 1943, and you have to transport 1,000 P-47 fighter planes from your factory in the United States to the front lines in Europe, roughly 5,000 miles over the open ocean. Flying them isn’t an option, the P-47 has a maximum range of only 1,800 miles, and the technology for air-to-air refueling of fighter planes is still a few years off. The Essex class aircraft carriers in use at this time could carry P-47s in a pinch, but the plane isn’t designed for carrier use and realistically you wouldn’t be able to fit many on anyway. So what does …read more
Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Field Assembling Airplanes Like Wartime “Ikea”
Imagine it’s 1943, and you have to transport 1,000 P-47 fighter planes from your factory in the United States to the front lines in Europe, roughly 5,000 miles over the open ocean. Flying them isn’t an option, the P-47 has a maximum range of only 1,800 miles, and the technology for air-to-air refueling of fighter planes is still a few years off. The Essex class aircraft carriers in use at this time could carry P-47s in a pinch, but the plane isn’t designed for carrier use and realistically you wouldn’t be able to fit many on anyway. So what does …read more
Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Field Assembling Airplanes Like Wartime “Ikea”
Facebook says that Russia-backed posts reached 126 million Americans during the 2016 US election. Continue reading Facebook tool will reveal if you were fooled by Russian propaganda
Google said it would demote Russia Today and Sputnik, but the Russian government has tried to control what news appears on Yandex for years. Continue reading How Russia Polices Yandex, Its Most Popular Search Engine
Russia Today and Sputnik swear up and down they’re legitimate news sources. The FBI, and former employees, beg to differ.
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Continue reading Google and Twitter turn their backs on Russian media over fake news
“It’s basically RT and Sputnik,” he said on Saturday. Continue reading Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will ‘Engineer’ Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed
The alt-right blogger had almost 70,000 followers, was an utter fiction, and wasn’t alone. Continue reading Meet Russian Twitter troll Jenna Abrams and her 2,752 friends
A hacker broke into an Israeli-based security researcher’s personal email account one year ago, but waited until the day before his employer, U.S. cybersecurity firm FireEye, announced earnings to publish the stolen material in an effort designed to damage the company’s stock value, people familiar with the matter told CyberScoop. While the investigation is ongoing, it’s believed that the attacker’s underlying motive was to cause financial and reputational damage to FireEye. The incident highlights how a hacker can stoke fears of a corporate breach to negatively affect the stock price of a specific, targeted company. The attacker behind this widely publicized incident, dubbed operation “LeakTheAnalyst,” first started posting evidence on July 31 of breached email and social media accounts belonging to a single analyst who worked for Mandiant, a FireEye subsidiary. FireEye posted earnings for their second fiscal quarter the next day. The hacker’s first message included a cache of documents, […]
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A Twitter account tied to a group that the Defense Intelligence Agency recently described as “Russian hackers … supporting Russia’s military operations” returned to the spotlight Wednesday by posting a message that alleges multiple Ukrainian government officials are “sponsored” by Hillary Clinton. These allegations, a vague and loosely defined set of financial connections documented only in a single graphic, could not be confirmed. No other supporting documents were provided. An attempt to contact the group went unanswered. Украинцы спонсировали Хиллари Клинтон за счет кредитов от МВФhttps://t.co/qTMAF0hLud#КиберБеркут #США #Украина pic.twitter.com/4nP3cZYjTL — КиберБеркут (@cyberberkut2) July 12, 2017 The Tweet posted Wednesday by this “CyberBerkut” group is the first such message posted publicly since January after the account shared an image of a redacted email it claims revealed plans by the U.S. government to doctor evidence to suggest that Russian hackers had interfered in the 2016 U.S. election. США планируют сфабриковать доказательства причастности […]
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