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Watch Out! Adrozek Malware Hijacking Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Yandex Browsers
Hacker News - Fri Dec 11, 2020
Microsoft on Thursday took the wraps off an ongoing campaign impacting popular web browsers that stealthily injects malware-infested ads into search results to earn money via affiliate advertising. More»

Stung by Social Media, Trump Threatens to Veto $1 Trillion Defense Bill
News and Guts - Wed Dec 2, 2020
President Trump’s ongoing feud with social media companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter has taken a serious turn: he’s threatening to veto a nearly $1 trillion funding bill for the US military if he doesn’t get his way. More»

U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps
Vice - Wed Nov 18, 2020
A Muslim prayer app with over 98 million downloads is one of the apps connected to a wide-ranging supply chain that sends ordinary people's personal data to brokers, contractors, and the military. More»

Rudy Giuliani wants Twitter CEO jailed over limitations on unverified Hunter Biden story
The Independent - Fri Oct 30, 2020
President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has said that Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter should be "in jail" for blocking the spread of the controversial Hunter Biden story. More»

FBI warns ransomware assault threatens US healthcare system
Associated Press - Thu Oct 29, 2020
BOSTON, Massachusetts - Federal agencies warned that cybercriminals are unleashing a wave of data-scrambling extortion attempts against the US healthcare system designed to lock up hospital information systems, which could hurt patient care just as nationwide cases of COVID-19 are spiking. More»

FBI says Iran and Russia have US voter information
BBC - Wed Oct 21, 2020
US national security officials have reported Iran was responsible for sending threatening emails to Democratic voters. More»

Trump signs executive order forcing Chinese owner of TikTok to sell US assets within 90 days and destroy all American user data
Daily Mail - Fri Aug 14, 2020
President Donald Trump on Friday gave the Chinese company ByteDance 90 days to divest itself of any assets used to support the popular TikTok app in the United States. More»

Donald Trump got suspended on Twitter
Raw Story - Wed Aug 5, 2020
President Donald Trump was banned from Tweeting on Wednesday after Twitter told the president he had to delete the misinformation about children not getting the coronavirus. More»

White nationalist group posing as antifa called for violence on Twitter
NBC News - Mon Jun 1, 2020
A Twitter account claiming to belong to a national “Anti-Fascist ” organization and pushing violent rhetoric related to ongoing protests has been linked to the white nationalist group Identity Evropa, according to a Twitter spokesperson. More»

Florida scientist was fired for refusing to 'manipulate' COVID-19 data
USA Today - Tue May 19, 2020
BREVARD COUNTY, Florida - The scientist who created Florida's COVID-19 data portal wasn't just removed from her position on May 5, she was fired on Monday by the Department of Health, she said, for refusing to manipulate data. More»

Facebook is blocking news articles about the coronavirus pandemic
Business Insider - Tue Mar 17, 2020
Facebook is blocking users from posting some legitimate news articles about the coronavirus in what appears to be a bug in its spam filters. More»

Apple fined for slowing down old iPhones
BBC - Fri Feb 7, 2020
Apple has been fined 25 million euros (€21m, $27m) for deliberately slowing down older iPhone models without making it clear to consumers. More»

Trump Administration Website Defaced By Hackers Claiming To Be Irnians Vowing "Severe Revenge"
Raw Story - Sun Jan 5, 2020
Predictions that Iran would engage in cyber warfare to retaliate for the United States' assassination of Qassin Suleimani may have already come true. More»

'Enough is enough': Cloudfare terminates 8chan
- Sun Aug 4, 2019
The online message board 8chan, which has been linked to three mass shootings in 2019, will be terminated, Cloudfare announced late Sunday night, just hours after the site's founder called for its end. More»

Cisco "Knowingly" Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System To U.S. Government
The Hacker News - Thu Aug 1, 2019
Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8. More»

Facebook Fined Record $5 Billion By FTC For Privacy Violations
Associated Press - Wed Jul 24, 2019
WASHINGTON, DC - Federal regulators have fined Facebook $5 billion for privacy violations and are instituting new oversight and restrictions on its business. More»

US "Ramping Up" Cyber Attacks on Russia
CNN - Sat Jun 15, 2019
Washington, DC - The US is escalating cyber attacks on Russia's electric power grid and has placed potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system, The New York Times reported Saturday. More»

Triton Is The World's Most Murderous Malware, And It's Spreading
Technology Review - Wed Mar 6, 2019
The rogue code can disable safety systems designed to prevent catastrophic industrial accidents. More»

There Are Seat-Back Cameras On Some American And United Air Flights Now
Huffington Post - Sun Feb 24, 2019
Now there is one more place where cameras could start watching you - from 30,000 feet. More»

Russia 'meddled in all big social media' around US election
BBC - Mon Dec 17, 2018
Russia used every major social media platform to influence the 2016 US election, a report claims. More»

New Facebook Bug Exposed 6.8 Million Users Photos to Third-Party Apps
The Hacker News - Sun Dec 16, 2018
Facebook's latest screw-up - a programming bug in Facebook website accidentally gave 1,500 third-party apps access to the unposted Facebook photos of as many as 6. More»

Veterans aren't getting their GI Bill payments - because VA's 50-year-old computer system broke
Washington Post - Wed Nov 14, 2018
Daniel Gorman knows what it's like to return from war, and he wants to help fellow veterans come home, too: The former sailor turned New York National Guardsman is finishing a graduate degree in social work at Fordham University. More»

Chinese Spying Chips Found Hidden On Servers Used By US Companies
The Hacker News - Wed Oct 3, 2018
A media report today revealed details of a significant supply chain attack which appears to be one of the largest corporate espionage and hardware hacking programs from a nation-state. More»

No.1 Adware Removal Tool On Apple App Store Caught Spying On Mac Users
The Hacker News - Sun Sep 9, 2018
A highly popular top-tier app in Apple's Mac App Store that's designed to protect its users from adware and malware threats has been, ironically, found surreptitiously stealing their browsing history without their consent, and sending it to a server in China. More»

Twitter Permanently Bans Alex Jones and InfoWars Accounts
NBC New York - Wed Sep 5, 2018
Twitter has permanently banned accounts for right-wing conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones and InfoWars from the platform, the company said Thursday. More»

Fox News host Laura Ingraham suggests having the government take over Facebook and Twitter 'like public utilities'
Raw Story - Fri Aug 31, 2018
Fox News host Laura Ingraham made a stunning suggestion on her Friday night show, arguing that the American government should take over private social media networks so that they can be regulated. More»

Google tracks your movements, like it or not
Associated Press - Sun Aug 12, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. More»

Microsoft Says Russia Tried to Hack Three 2018 Midterm Election Candidates
The Hacker News - Thu Jul 19, 2018
ASPEN, Colorado - Microsoft said it detected and helped the US government to block Russian hacking attempts against at least three congressional candidates this year, a Microsoft executive revealed speaking at the Aspen Security Forum today. More»

More than 3,500 Facebook ads created by Russians is released
NPR - Fri May 11, 2018
WASHINGTON - Democrats on the House intelligence committee have released more than 3,500 Facebook ads that were created or promoted by a Russian internet agency, providing the fullest picture yet of Russia's attempt to sow racial and political division in the United States before and after the 2016 election. More»

Steve Bannon asked Cambridge Analytica to research voter suppression techniques
The Hill - Wed Apr 25, 2018
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie told House Democrats on Tuesday that former Trump campaign strategist Stephen Bannon asked Cambridge Analytica to research voter suppression techniques. More»

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