A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March
A surge in virtual private network downloads is a challenge to Vladimir Putin and his version of the war Tweets: @youranonstory , @kenroth , @alfonslopeztena , and @kenroth Tweets: @youranonstory : VP...
A look at the rise of VPNs in Russia following its war in Ukraine; Apptopia: daily downloads of the top ten VPNs jumped from 15K before the war to 475K in March
A surge in virtual private network downloads is a challenge to Vladimir Putin and his version of the war Tweets: @alfonslopeztena , @kenroth , and @kenroth Tweets: @alfonslopeztena : Millions of Russi...
A look at China's evolving approach to state-sponsored hacking, which borrows from Russia and Iran and increasingly relies on private sector hackers
The state security ministry is recruiting from a vast pool of private-sector hackers who often have their own agendas and sometimes use … Tweets: @bhweingarten , @alfonslopeztena , @timothys , @aadilb...
Leaked docs show how China stage-managed what appeared on its domestic internet to make coronavirus look less severe in the early days of the outbreak
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. Tweets: @paulmozur , @justinhendrix , @camillefrancois , @st...
A look at the key social media feedback loops that help Trump, where his high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers push messages both to and from him
Researchers say the online feedback loop between Trump, high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers is more dangerous than Russian disinformation. Tweets: @lizzadwoskin , @tripgabriel , @alfo...
The story of CyberBunker, a hosting provider that once hosted The Pirate Bay and a number of dark web sites, whose German facility was raided by police in 2019
An eccentric Dutchman began living in a giant underground facility built by the German military—and ran a server farm beloved by cybercriminals. Tweets: @feikehacquebord , @balumcarnes , @alfonslopezt...
How WhatsApp fuels fake news and violence in India, where a police officer says people can live without oxygen, “but without WhatsApp they will die”
BY THE TIME police arrived in the hamlet of Rainpada on July 1, 2018, the village council office was the scene of a massacre. Tweets: @alfonslopeztena , @tmclaughlin3 , @tmclaughlin3 , @tmclaughlin3 ,...