The US Secret Service says it has dismantled 300+ SIM card servers in the NYC area that could have disrupted communications ahead of the UN General Assembly
NYTimes https://www.nytimes.com/... Anthony Guglielmi / @ajguglielmi : While investigating threats against senior officials, the @SecretService uncovered & dismantled a telecom network capable of disr...
Open letter: the EFF and top security experts urge the Trump administration to end its “political retribution” investigation into ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs
“An independent infosec community is fundamental to protecting our democracy, and to the profession itself.” — www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/chris- k... Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker.com : Electr...
LastPass says hackers stole a backup copy of users' encrypted and unencrypted vault data using cloud storage keys stolen from a LastPass employee in August 2022
If you have a LastPass account you should have received … Camila Foster / Sammy Fans : Samsung fans using LastPass should know, hackers stolen cloud data Fabian A. Scherschel / The Sleepy Fox : A Chri...
Sources detail Meta's challenges in building encrypted messaging products, including users' apathy toward encryption, which could change with Roe overturned
and whether the overturning of Roe will finally overcome the apathy many people have toward secure communications https://www.platformer.news/ ... https://twitter.com/... Renee DiResta / @noupside : A...
Musk says he may not “actually be able to” buy Twitter, he is motivated by its public interest value, it should open source its algorithm, and he has a Plan B
Utopian good—with another six architectural and business model reforms. Let me run the place in my spare time from finding, funding, and growing Deep Tech breakthroughs. https://twitter.com/... Kurt W...
FBI seems to be targeting disgruntled staff working at the Russian embassy in Washington DC via geo-targeted recruitment ads on Facebook, Twitter, and Google
The FBI is trying a novel strategy to recruit Russian-speaking individuals upset about the country's invasion of Ukraine … Tweets: @digiphile , @katieharbath , @hexadecim8 , @mattblaze , @zachsdorfman...
Twitter terminated its head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko this week, and CISO Rinki Sethi will depart in the coming weeks; both execs joined Twitter in 2020
Market summary: 📊 — Brutal week in the market finally ends. Steve Zurier / scmagazine.com : What's it mean? Making sense of Twitter's decision to oust ‘Mudge’ Zatko and Rinki Sethi Kris Holt / Engad...
Jay Last, a pioneer who founded Fairchild Semiconductor, which laid the technical, financial, and cultural foundation for Silicon Valley, dies at 92
He and seven others left the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory to create their own silicon company, Fairchild Semiconductor … Tweets: @vypointjch , @mattblaze , @jacquiemcnish , @aadetugbo , and @andr...
Security researchers say Apple and EU plans to monitor phones for illicit material are ineffective and could embolden government surveillance
In August, Apple announced a system to check all our iPhones for illegal images … Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg : Apple's Child-Porn Tracking System Is Flawed, Report Says arXiv.org : Bugs in our Pocke...
Analysis: Facebook appears to be adding code to interfere with automated data collection of News Feed posts by researchers, such as NYU's Ad Observatory
The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform Tweets: @themarkup , @joeosborne , @jared_w_smith ...