Collaborate Disseminate
Just hours before the US mid-term elections opened, Facebook responded to a tip from law enforcement agencies and shut down 115 accounts that were behaving suspiciously, and potentially linked to a foreign entity.
Continue reading On eve of US elections, Facebook blocked 115 accounts engaged in ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has shown tremendous patience as it builds its case to identify those involved with the Russian election interference in the United States and elsewhere (Project Lakhta). In February 2018, we wrote of the indictmen… Continue reading Russia Meddling Round Two: Project Lakhta’s Accountant
Twilio is hosting its Signal developer conference in San Francisco this week. Yesterday was all about bots and taking payments over the phone; today is all about IoT. The company is launching two new (but related) products today that will make it easier for IoT developers to connect their devices. The first is the Global […] Continue reading Twilio launches a new SIM card and narrowband dev kit for IoT developers
Trying to stop the planet from warming more than 1.5 degrees Celsius is “extremely improbable,” expert says. Continue reading We’re ‘Nowhere Near on Track’ to Meeting Our Climate Change Goals, UN Report Says
A gathering of experts organized by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said the US isn’t ready for the public health crisis that would follow a nuclear blast. Continue reading America Is Not Prepared for Nuclear War, Public Health Experts Warn
In June of this year, Chinese hackers managed to install software into the networks of a contractor for the U.S. Navy and steal information on a roughly $300 million top secret submarine program. Two years ago, hackers infiltrated the networks of a vendor servicing the Australian military and made off with files containing a trove […] Continue reading RiskRecon’s security assessment services for third party vendors raises $25 million
By Waqas
The aviation industry is growing, thanks to millions of passengers
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Top 10 vulnerable airports where your device can be hacked
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When people migrated to North America some 10,000 years ago, they brought their canine companions with them. Continue reading The Mysterious Disappearance of North America’s First Dogs
Just days after the two countries signed a joint agreement at their unprecedented talks, the US Department of Homeland Security has issued a warning about more malware being used by the North Korean government against US organisations.
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Top South Korean cybersecurity experts don’t expect Donald Trump’s diplomacy to slow down North Korean cyberattacks Speaking through interpreters at a Brookings event Thursday, two of South Korea’s leading cybersecurity experts said that they’re no longer able to cope with the sheer volume of attacks emanating from the North. In the past decade, every well-known South Korean organization has been hacked or targeted by North Korea, noted SangMyung Choi, chief of South Korea’s Computer Emergency Response Team. At the Washington, D.C., event, Choi showed off a slide deck that warned: “there is no place that is not hacked” and “we are in the real cyberwarfare.” “A lot of these attacks have not been [revealed] to the South Korean public, but today I confess to you that it’s been very prevalent,” Choi said. Since May 2018, he revealed, North Korean-backed hackers have launched spear phishing and watering hole attacks in forged documents […]
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