A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups
A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash. — The pitch was simple: Crypto for “cold hard cash.”LinkedIn:Tamer Yalav,Poppy Alexander,CAT Labs,Scott Greytak, a...
A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups
A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash. — The pitch was simple: Crypto for “cold hard cash.”LinkedIn:Tamer Yalav,CAT Labs,Poppy Alexander,Scott Greytak, a...
A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity firm led by ex-NSA director Keith Alexander and whose valuation crossed $3B after it went public in 2021
The future was once dazzling for IronNet. Founded by a former director of the National Security Agency and stacked … Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social . Bluesky: @scottevans.bsky.social . X: @...
A look at the rise and fall of IronNet, a cybersecurity firm led by ex-NSA director Keith Alexander and whose valuation crossed $3B after it went public in 2021
The future was once dazzling for IronNet. Founded by a former director of the National Security Agency and stacked … Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social . Bluesky: @scottevans.bsky.social . X: @...
A cyberattack on Illuminate Education, exposing the personal data of 1M+ students, highlights the dangers of stockpiling school children's sensitive information
At a moment when education technology firms are stockpiling sensitive information on millions of school children, safeguards for student data have broken down. Tweets: @funnymonkey , @imeluny , @alexa...
Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple reportedly threatene...
SEC filing: former NSA director Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors
When Amazon announced the addition to its board of directors … Tweets: Jason Del Rey / @delrey : Amazon says it has added retired four-star Army general Keith Alexander to its board of directors. Alex...
SEC filing: former NSA director Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors
Alexander was the public face of US surveillance during the Snowden leaks — Gen. Keith Alexander is joining Amazon's board of directors, the company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Instagram says it is testing letting some users access DMs from its website
we need to make sure it works well — but we hope to bring this to everyone soon. https://www.theverge.com/... @instagram : DMs, but make them desktop. 👍 We're currently testing Direct messaging on the...
Oliver Samwer walks out of an interview with TechCrunch
The three Samwer brothers (Oliver, Marc and Alexander) founders of the Rocket Internet incubator in Berlin, are a phenomenon. They are far and away the most successful Internet entrepreneurs in Germa...