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Adam Rawnsley

@arawnsley
46 posts
2024-08-30
“In each iteration of the watering hole campaigns, the attackers used exploits that were identical or strikingly similar to exploits previously used by commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) Intellexa and NSO Group.” https://blog.google/...
2024-08-30 View on X
TechCrunch

Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group

«Russian government hackers found using #exploits made by spyware companies NSO and Intellexa: … Frederic Jacobs / @fj@mastodon.social : “Our latest n-day exploit reporting shows t...

2024-08-29
“In each iteration of the watering hole campaigns, the attackers used exploits that were identical or strikingly similar to exploits previously used by commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) Intellexa and NSO Group.” https://blog.google/...
2024-08-29 View on X
TechCrunch

Google says Russia-linked APT29 is using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group

Google says it has evidence that Russian government hackers are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” …

2024-07-13
I don't think people have really grasped how devastating this will be for privacy if it becomes public. Think of people calling abortion clinics, suicide hotlines, you name it—across the breadth of America's second largest teleco. It's just awful. https://x.com/...
2024-07-13 View on X
404 Media

Sources: John Binns, a US citizen who has been incarcerated in Turkey and indicted for allegedly hacking T-Mobile in 2021, is linked to the AT&T data breach

across the breadth of America's second largest teleco. It's just awful. https://x.com/... Joseph Cox / @josephfcox : Scoop: John Binns, an American hacker in Turkey, is linked to t...

2024-04-24
“Generally, the conspirators sent messages to victims from conspirator-created social media accounts with female personas.” https://www.justice.gov/...
2024-04-24 View on X
BleepingComputer

The US OFAC sanctions four Iranian nationals over cyberattacks on the US government, defense contractors, and private companies, and the DOJ unseals indictments

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their involvement …

2023-06-17
More than any major social media platform, Reddit is so reliant on its users for the platform's success. It's the mark of a CEO who doesn't understand his company and is in way over his head that he thinks it's a good idea to declare war on them https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-17 View on X
The Verge

Q&A with Steve Huffman: Reddit's API “was never designed to support third-party apps”, he didn't know how much they “were profiting off of our API”, and more

More than any major social media platform, Reddit is so reliant on its users for the platform's success. It's the mark of a CEO who doesn't understand his company and is in way over his head that he thinks it's a good idea to declare war on them https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-17 View on X
NBC News

Steve Huffman praises Elon Musk's aggressive cost-cutting and layoffs at Twitter and says he saw Musk's handling of Twitter as an example for Reddit to follow

Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted “a handful of times.”

2023-06-16
Much speech very free https://twitter.com/...
2023-06-16 View on X
CNBC

Twitter suspends the accounts of public records database PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, who has tracked litigation against Tesla and Twitter

- Elon Musk-led Twitter on Tuesday suspended the Twitter accounts of PlainSite and its founder Aaron Greenspan, a prominent critic of Tesla and Musk.

2023-05-03
He's incapable of self reflection but anyone with a modicum of self awareness would realize they don't care and then ask themselves why that is. Sometimes it's better to take the L rather than asking it to multiply https://www.npr.org/...
2023-05-03 View on X
NPR

In an unprompted email to an NPR reporter, Elon Musk asked if NPR planned to start posting on Twitter again, “or should we reassign @NPR to another company?”

Elon Musk has threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter account to “another company.”  —  In a series of emails sent …

2023-04-20
“I caught a blizzard type Pokémon, er, threat actor” https://twitter.com/...
2023-04-20 View on X
The Verge

Microsoft starts naming threat actor groups after weather events, like typhoon, sandstorm, and blizzard; each name represents a nation state or a motivation

Microsoft has started naming hackers after the weather in a new naming taxonomy update.  Hackers will now be named after events like storms …

2023-03-31
No one tell the Twitter Files geniuses. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-31 View on X
The Guardian

Leaked documents from Moscow-based NTC Vulkan reveal the company helps the GRU, FSB, and SVR with hacking operations, national infrastructure attacks, and more

2023-02-19
Gee, I wonder what the impact will be when Twitter dumps the 99 percent of users who don't subscribe to Blue from the most convenient form of Two Factor will be. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-19 View on X
The Verge

Twitter says only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based 2FA after March 20, 2023; all users can use an authenticator app or a physical security key

In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use a far …

2023-02-18
Gee, I wonder what the impact will be when Twitter dumps the 99 percent of users who don't subscribe to Blue from the most convenient form of Two Factor will be. https://twitter.com/...
2023-02-18 View on X
The Verge

Twitter says only Blue subscribers will be able to use SMS-based 2FA after March 20, 2023; non-Blue users can use an authenticator app or physical security key

In fact, if you don't start paying for Twitter Blue ($8 a month on Android; $11 a month on iOS) or switch your account to use …

2023-02-07
“The material wasn't difficult to find. In fact, Twitter helped promote it through its recommendation algorithm — a feature that suggests accounts to follow based on user activity.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
2023-02-07 View on X
New York Times

Tests show CSAM still spreads and gets recommended on Twitter, including known material that's easier to detect; one video had 122K+ views in just over a month

2023-01-31
Social media platform with no trust & safety personnel and near nonexistent moderation adds payment processing. What could go wrong? https://www.ft.com/...
2023-01-31 View on X
Financial Times

Sources detail Twitter's nascent moves to facilitate payments, a key to becoming a “super app”, as the company files for regulatory licenses across the US

2022-12-12
Fun bit of reporting that shook out from this. Automation is nice but people are crucial because you have no idea how persistent & clever bad actors are, as BTS fans learned. https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-12 View on X
Rolling Stone

Ex-staffers warn Twitter mass firing security staff and its increased reliance on automation will help authoritarian regimes like China's silence their critics

2022-11-30
Predictions are a mug's games and I won't make one but here's some interesting context. If you try to circumvent Apple's App Store payments rules, you'll serve yourself up on a ban hammer platter. I doubt Apple would ban Twitter outright just based on their lack of moderation. https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-30 View on X
Platformer

Internal messages: Twitter's EMEA ad revenue dropped 15% YoY and weekly bookings are down 49%; source: Blue is delayed as Twitter seeks to skirt App Store fees

Revenues are in free fall, employees say.  Can Musk turn the tide?  —  and Zoë Schiffer

2022-11-28
Me, a year ago, yelling to an audience of no one that Twitter is really terrible at and inattentive to cleaning up low-grade China spam accounts and why that's bad https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-28 View on X
Washington Post

Researchers: China seems to be flooding Twitter with porn tweets mentioning places where people are protesting, overwhelming Twitter's reduced moderation team

For hours, links to adult content overwhelmed other posts from cities where dramatic rallies escalated

2022-11-01
Not sure Vine works in the era of TikTok. Music licensing is what helped light the fire for TikTok. Also, 7 second limit is probably too tight https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-01 View on X
Axios

Sources: Elon Musk told Twitter engineers to work on a Vine reboot that may be ready by the end of 2022; Twitter acquired Vine in 2012 and shut it down in 2016

Elon Musk has instructed Twitter engineers to work on a Vine reboot that could be ready by year end, multiple sources tell Axios.

Not sure Vine works in the era of TikTok. Music licensing is what helped light the fire for TikTok. Also, 7 second limit is probably too tight https://twitter.com/...
2022-11-01 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Twitter froze some staff access to content moderation and policy enforcement tools, raising worries about a misinformation spike before the US midterms

Twitter Inc., the social network being overhauled by new owner Elon Musk, has frozen some employee access to internal tools used …

2022-09-05
Hot take: terrorists groups getting into NFTs is a good thing. Encourage them to put a bunch of money in a giant scam and watch it burn. https://twitter.com/...
2022-09-05 View on X
Wall Street Journal

US intelligence officials worry that the Islamic State could use NFTs to spread messages and evade censorship, after IS posted its first NFT following an attack

National-security analysts see potentially dangerous platform for recruiting and funding  —  WASHINGTON—A simple digital …