Tim Berners-Lee's Inrupt trials its digital wallet in Belgium to let 7M citizens receive social services and share data with businesses, as he worries about AI
The inventor of the World Wide Web is on a laudable mission to give everyone control of their online data. He's fighting an uphill battle. X: @noyesclt . Forums: Hacker News X: Tom Noyes / @noyesclt ...
Sources: Twitter CEO Parag Agarwal has sought to spend more time with advertisers to keep the company's $4.5B/year ad business afloat amid its Musk legal battle
insiders say ‘rudderless’ Twitter facing increased tensions amid Musk takeover saga Tweets: Janine Gibson / @janinegibson : A rudderless social network with considerable political power seems a bit wo...
How Belgian police infiltrated messaging service Sky ECC in February and March, gaining access to a billion messages and facilitating arrests and drug seizures
Criminals thought encrypted Sky ECC cellphones were impregnable, but cops tapped a billion messages, yielding arrests and drug seizures Tweets: @drewharwell , @kimzetter , @marson_jr , @keegan_hamilto...
Graphika: Huawei officials retweeted messages from fake accounts on Twitter to spread a pro-5G influence campaign in Belgium; Huawei is investigating the claim
A covert online push to sway telecommunications policy in favor of the Chinese company may presage a new twist in social manipulation. Source: Graphika .
Microsoft identified 40+ customers targeted in the SolarWinds hack, 80% in the US, says the attack is “ongoing” and calls for a global cybersecurity response
including the highest reaches of the U.S. government — is certain of exactly what the hackers had infiltrated, let alone the full extent of what was taken. https://www.bloomberg.com/... William Turton...
Report details the use of telecom snooping tools provided by Circles, an NSO Group affiliate, by 25 nations, some of which have a history of human rights abuses
Did These 25 Countries Buy It? Tweets: Stphane Duguin / @duguinstephane : Reports after reports, the work of @citizenlab is not only revealing the reality of state sponsored intrusions at scale. It bu...
A look at how QAnon, the far-right conspiracy, has seeped from the web to the offline world, appearing in political campaigns, criminal cases, and more
A city council member in California took the dais and quoted from QAnon, a pro-Trump conspiracy theory about “deep state” … Tweets: @kevinroose , @kevinroose , @owillis , @nytimes , @brandyzadrozny , ...
Sources detail Belgium's ongoing investigation into the hack of Belgacom, Belgium's largest telecommunications provider, which was carried out by the UK's GCHQ
Sources detail Belgium's ongoing investigation into the hack of Belgacom, Belgium's largest telecommunications provider, which was carried out by the UK's GCHQ
For a moment, it seemed the hackers had slipped up and exposed their identities. It was the summer of 2013 … Tweets: @rj_gallagher and @rj_gallagher Tweets: Ryan Gallagher / @rj_gallagher : A few yea...
Lightning strikes Google Compute Engine data center in Belgium; services disrupted and 0.000001% of data lost
Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge :