Sources: China-linked “Salt Typhoon” hacking campaign breached networks of US ISPs like Verizon and AT&T, potentially gaining access to US wiretap systems
AT&T, Verizon are among broadband providers breached in China-linked ‘Salt Typhoon’ hack Mastodon: @fj@mastodon.social , @adamgurri@mastodon.social , @HackyScientress@chaos.social , and @dymaxion@info...
A profile of Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle, as the service fights existential battles over copyright, including from music labels like UMG
the crunchy side, before it got all tech bro. It's utopian, it's idealistic.” 🔗 https://www.wired.com/... Mastodon: Pete Ashton / @pete@social.coop : I am occasionally asked why I download and save ...
Europol says police in Germany, the UK, the US, and others took down botnets spreading ransomware via infected emails, arrested four, and seized 2,000+ domains
International law enforcement and partners have joined forces. Europol : Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer : Police seize over 100 ma...
Signal's president says the TikTok bill won't offer any meaningful privacy protection from China, but will further entrench the dominance of US social networks
Earlier this month, the United States House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act … Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to and @olaf@social.secr...
A look at the cottage industry of Russian tech contractors, many owned by oligarch-linked Citadel Group, building digital surveillance tools for use by the FSB
Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. Mastodon: @Mer__edith@mastodon.world . Twitter: @matthew_d_green , @sat...
Meta warns 1M Facebook users that their account info may have been stolen by 400+ apps on the App Store and Google Play that have a “Login with Facebook” button
delete them now Priya Singh / BGR India : Meta warns against Android, iOS apps for stealing users' Facebook password Justin Luna / Neowin : Meta warns Facebook users about password-stealing Android an...
Apple to debut an opt-in child safety feature for iPhones in the UK that scans messages for nudity, but drops some controversial aspects, like notifying parents
then we'd better be willing to absolutely go to the mat to make sure it's the former. Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green : I have no problem at all with this system. It seems to be focused on providing ...
Researchers discover macOS malware dubbed “Silver Sparrow” on at least 30K Macs, which includes a native M1 version and leverages the Installer JavaScript API
and this one is dangerous Matthew Humphries / PCMag : Silver Sparrow Malware Discovered on 30K Infected Macs Joe Rice-Jones / KnowTechie : Mysterious malware was found on nearly 30,000 Macs - here's w...
Report: since January, a group has been hijacking Tor exit relay nodes to perform SSL stripping attacks, peaking in May when the group ran 23.95% of all nodes
namely multiple bitcoin mixer services. They replaced bitcoin addresses in HTTP traffic to redirect transactions to their wallets instead of the user provided bitcoin address.” https://twitter.com/......
Apple says COVID-19 contact tracing apps can include duration of proximity when deciding what is a proximity event, potentially limiting false positive pings
Surveillance and the pandemic: it doesn't have to be a nightmare Sergio De Simone / InfoQ : Google and Apple Jointly Working on Contact Tracing for iOS and Android Samantha Wiley / iLounge : Apple and...