Peiter Zatko's whistleblower complaint alleges India forced Twitter to hire one of its agents, who could have accessed sensitive user data due to weak security
😱 El antiguo jefe de seguridad de Twitter tira de la manta. Ians / Business Standard : Twitter trashes ex-worker's claim that India forced it to hire ‘govt agent’ Lily Hay Newman / Wired : The Most Da...
Estonia, which created a volunteer Cyber Defence Unit after cyberattacks in 2007, offers key lessons to the US in attracting tech talent and educating citizens
Monica M. Ruiz / Wired : Tweets: @ilvestoomas Tweets: Toomas Hendrik Ilves / @ilvestoomas : It would help just to take the threats to US elections seriously https://www.wired.com/...
Estonia, which created a volunteer Cyber Defence Unit after cyberattacks in 2007, offers key lessons to the US in attracting tech talent and educating citizens
The tiny European nation has come a long way after crippling cyberattacks in 2007. Now, it offers key lessons in attracting tech talent and educating citizens. Tweets: @ilvestoomas Tweets: Toomas Hen...
A look at how the Democratic National Committee has beefed up cybersecurity since 2016, hiring staff from Silicon Valley, warning about phishing, and more
Eric Geller / Politico : Tweets: @ericgeller , @kimzetter , @ilvestoomas , @raffi , @ericgeller , and @donie Tweets: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : New from me: An in-depth look at how the DNC has overh...
Sources: Supermicro firmware portal was breached in 2015 and some customers downloaded malware; Facebook was among them, says no servers were used in production
This week Bloomberg Businessweek (BBW) … Evgeny Morozov / The Guardian : Reasserting cyber sovereignty: how states are taking back control Alan Patterson / EE Times : Analysts Foresee Supply Chain Imp...
Two years after many voter-registration networks were penetrated by hackers, voting infrastructure in US remains largely unchanged, despite officials' warnings
As the midterms approach, America's electronic voting systems are more vulnerable than ever. Why isn't anyone trying to fix them? Tweets: @kimzetter , @kimzetter , @justinhendrix , @ilvestoomas , @ki...
CEOs of social media companies should not hide behind “naiveté” and “free speech” as an excuse for letting fake news and harassment flourish on their platforms
IT'S NOT OFTEN you hear some of the richest, most powerful men in the world described as naive, but it's becoming pretty commonplace. Tweets: @profgalloway , @wired , @ilvestoomas , and @wired Tweets:...
A look at the fake YouTube views ecosystem where sites like Devumi.com and 500Views.com sell millions of bot-generated views and how YouTube is fighting it
Plays can be bought for pennies and delivered in bulk, inflating videos' popularity and creating an environment ripe for manipulation. Tweets: @nytimes , @reallygraceful , @samueljscott , @nytimes , @...
Sources: years after FBI began tracking Russian disinformation efforts and US intelligence agencies drew up counter operations, the US still equivocates
I don't have much faith in the Russians stopping any of their illegal activity, so the question becomes what have we done to make our infrastructure more secure and to impose costs on Russia? Cyber Co...
Inside Zuckerberg's and Facebook's evolving approach to misinformation and filter bubbles, now that the issues have been more openly acknowledged
Graphic from the White House's “First 100 Days” website BeauHD / Slashdot : Facebook Shows Related Articles and Fact Checkers Before You Open Links Tweets: Parmy Olson / @parmy : Facebook thinks “peop...