How Craigslist has stayed relevant as a place to find jobs, housing, and personal connections without relying on algorithmic feeds, public profiles, or ratings
Millennials are still using Craigslist to find jobs, find love, and even to cast creative projects—eschewing other AI- and algorithm-dominated online spaces.
The FIDO Alliance debuts Credential Exchange Protocol, a specification to make passkeys portable across systems, and Passkey Central, a developer resource site
“Passkeys,” the secure authentication mechanism built to replace passwords, are getting more portable and easier for organizations …
A profile of Jarod Koopman, who leads IRS Criminal Investigation's cybercrime unit, which has returned $12B+ to victims and the US Treasury in the past 10 years
these tireless, dedicated people, working all hours, shutting down suppliers of fentanyl, saving kids, disrupting terrorists — sort of a nerdy SEAL Team Six.” @postopinions https:/...
Mandiant links hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia, which claimed to target utilities in France, the US, and Poland, to Russia-linked hacking group Sandworm
Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin's Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn't dare to.
Researchers find serious security flaws in cheap video doorbells sold by Chinese company Aiwit under various brand names on Amazon, Shein, Temu, and other sites
A Consumer Reports study involving 709 volunteers: 186,892 companies had sent data about the volunteers to Facebook, or an average of 2,230 companies per person
A new study looks at who is sending information about your online activity to Facebook … By now most internet users know their online activity is constantly tracked.
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers
How a California college uses data collection tools to track students' daily movements, like homework trackers, e-proctoring software, and license plate readers
A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech … Threads: @craignewmark . Mastodon: @irisRichardson@mastodon....
A New York University study finds Russian troll Twitter accounts had a minimal impact on 2016 US election voters; 1% of users accounted for 70% of the exposure
Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! I caught up on some time hanging out with friends this past weekend. Friends are cool.
Analysis in 38 US cities: AT&T, Verizon, and others offer lower-income and least-white areas slow internet for the same price as faster service in other regions
then signed up Chloe Albanesius / PCMag : ISPs Found Charging the Same for Internet Plans With Big Speed Disparities Nathan Yau / FlowingData : Slow internet for the same price as ...
The US FTC seeks public comment on federal online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children
on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy. @FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security p...
How China helps foreign influencers in the country who spread pro-China messages, funding their travel and generating lucrative, likely inauthentic, traffic
We are on the outskirts of Shanghai today at the most incredible hotel we've ever stayed at. — It's the first in the world built inside a quarry.
Analysts and US officials say the disinformation-for-hire industry is booming, as influencers get approached by back-alley firms to spread falsehoods
Back-alley firms meddle in elections and promote falsehoods on behalf of clients who can claim deniability, escalating our era of unreality.
New York City opens a real-time cyberattack defense center, the first major US metropolitan area to do so, with 282 partners sharing info on potential threats
Initiative brings together government agencies and business groups to share intelligence and respond to digital threats
Financial services use Facebook's ad targeting to block people in certain age groups from seeing their ads, violating Facebook's anti-discrimination policies
YouTube blocks advertisers from using terms like “Black Lives Matter” to find videos to advertise against but was letting them use phrases like “White power”
with a tiny fraction of the budget and workforce Google has at their disposal—are able to discover how hate groups continue to operate on these platforms, while the company itself ...
Facebook sidelined AI experts and weakened initiatives to clean up misinfo because leadership didn't want to hurt Zuckerberg's desire for growth
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience. — It was March 23, 2018 …
Citizen Browser project's Split Screen tool shows Facebook's different News Feeds for Trump and Biden voters, based on data from 2,500+ users across the US
a tool that lets you see other people's feeds, based on our national panel of Facebook users. Brought to you by @suryamattu and @sammorrisdesign: https://themarkup.org/... Dan Froo...
How Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other tech giants let their work on domestic terrorism threats, like QAnon, lag behind foreign threats, like ISIS
On a Friday in August 2017 — years before a mob of armed and very-online extremists took over the U.S. Capitol — a young Black woman … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @wexler , @issielapo...