A profile of Kiwi Farms, a forum owned and operated by former 8chan admin Josh Moon, which has become synonymous with doxxing, swatting, and harassment
and how they're chasing political enemies around the world. Morten Rand-Hendriksen / @mor10 : When your speech takes away the rights of other people to speak, it is no longer enough to claim your righ...
Joe Rogan posts a video to Instagram defending booking contentious guests, apologizes to Spotify for the backlash, and says he may book more “experts”
Lots of audio platform-related news over the past week. Shruti Shekar / Android Central : Spotify's ‘misinformation honeymoon’ is over, the whip has been cracked Tweets: Joe Rogan / @joerogan : My tho...
Sources: Colonial paid ~$5M ransom in cryptocurrency within hours of the attack, but the hackers' decrypting tool was so slow that it had to use its own backups
this should significantly escalate the political pressure to finally counter the ransomware ecosystem https://www.bloomberg.com/... Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet : Maybe it was a four hundred pound eigh...
Source: Treasury's hackers used a flaw in a SolarWinds product; SolarWinds, which touts 300K+ customers, says the flaw was the result of a “supply chain attack”
and it has the Kremlin's fingerprints all over it. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Thomas Brewster / @iblametom : New - A review of contract records shows DOD, FBI, DHS, Veterans Affairs and many other ...
Sources: state-sponsored hackers accessed US DHS internal communications as part of the campaign that penetrated US Treasury and Commerce departments
now five — hacked in major Russian cyberespionage campaign David Uberti / Wall Street Journal : Hack of Federal Agencies Shows Cyber Dangers to Supply Chains Tweets: Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : Can confir...
At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation
Mark Zuckerberg https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Luke O'Brien / @lukeobrien : Mark Zuckerberg could not make a better case for regulation. https://www.reuters.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : Zuckerbe...
Sources: WH is seeking to fast-track a no-bid contract to lease DOD mid-band 5G spectrum to Rivada Networks, which has Peter Thiel and Karl Rove as investors
Washington (CNN)Senior officials throughout various departments and agencies of the Trump administration tell CNN they are alarmed … Tweets: @jaketapper , @alyssa_milano , @maxbergmann , @dangillmor ,...
How Belarusians turned to VPNs and a private Telegram channel to bypass censorship when its internet was shut down using deep packet inspection
not just in #Belarus but on an international level. https://gizmodo.com/... Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet : Coming to a country near you. https://twitter.com/... Scott Rose / @rprose : Belarus shut down...
Sources: the FBI is leading a federal inquiry into the Twitter hack
don't have sensitive conversations in Twitter DMs. Move that stuff to Signal. You don't know who'll be in charge of Twitter five, ten, or twenty years from now. Remember the example of LiveJournal. ht...