An interview with Guillaume Verdon, founder of stealth AI startup Extropic who is behind the @BasedBeffJezos persona at the center of effective accelerationism
and spoke to Guillaume Verdon, the self-described “gentle Canadian” behind the account. https://www.forbes.com/... William Turton / @williamturton : “doxxing” has lost all meaning. the guy confirms hi...
Filing: Caesars confirms the casino operator was hacked via a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor; sources: Caesars paid a ~$15M ransom
CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act … Thomas Barrabi / New York Post : Caesars Entertainment paid about $15M to hackers who stole customer Social Security num...
Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping
Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegraph : Elon Musk impose...
British Airways, the BBC, and others warn staff that their data may have been stolen in Progress' MOVEit tool hack; thousands of companies could be vulnerable
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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...
Interviews with more than 24 people involved in the AT&T/Time Warner merger, including Jeff Bewkes and Randall Stephenson, detail how it went disastrously awry
At Time Warner, executives saw AT&T as just a “big phone company from Texas.” At AT&T, they thought Hollywood would play by their rules. Tweets: @jamesstewartnyt , @nytimes , @dandrezner , @nickconfe...
White House forms the Cyber Safety Review Board, loosely modeled on NTSB, to investigate major national cybersecurity failures, starting with the Log4j bug
Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @dnvolz , @dalperovitch , @anthony , @ericgeller , @dnvolz , @marcambinder , @williamturton , and @wsjpolitics Tweets: Dustin Volz / @dnvolz : Rob Silvers ...
Microsoft identifies a destructive malware operation targeting Ukrainian organizations; the malware looks like ransomware but lacks a ransom recovery mechanism
European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company Vilius Petkauskas / cybernews.com : Belarus state hackers suspected behind Ukraine cyberattack Grugq / grugq's domain : Uk...
Sources: the recent ransomware attack against Sinclair is linked to Russian group Evil Corp., which changed names to avoid 2019 US sanctions
- Evil Corp. said to change names to avoid 2019 U.S. sanctions — Broadcaster hit with new ransomware strain called Macaw Tweets: @williamturton , @caseynewton , @williamturton , @williamturton , an...
Resecurity: hackers gained access to UN's proprietary project management tool Umoja from April 5 to August 7, stealing an unknown amount of data
Bloomberg : Tweets: @williamturton and @williamturton Tweets: William Turton / @williamturton : NEW: Hackers breached the UN's computer networks earlier this year and made off with a trove of data th...