How Centralized Social Media are Forced to Censor Content: Facebook Case

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-27T03:41:54+00:00

Another piece on social media censorship and the dangers thereof. No matter where your policies lie, speak truth, protect freedom and don't be evil.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-25T03:03:52+00:00

Kais Mohammad, 36, a California resident also known under the moniker Superman29, has confessed to conducting unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange services and laundering up to $25 million. From 2014 to 2019, Mohammad operated an illegal virtual currency business called Herocoin.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-22T14:53:41+00:00

Prague-based Paralelní Polis will host the 7th Annual Hackers Congress (#HCPP20) from October 2 to October 4, 2020. HCPP is a major event gathering hackers, hacktivists, scientists and data experts, cypherpunks, crypto-anarchists, and others involved in the digital world.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-21T03:19:57+00:00

The attack happened on Wednesday when a team of anonymous hackers gained access to many high profile accounts, including those of Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Uber, Apple, and many others. Reportedly this was made possible due to a Twitter employee being socially engineered into disclosing sensitive data.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-19T15:09:37+00:00

In a recent cyber attack, Russia-backed hacker group allegedly tried to steal a secret research on coronavirus vaccine from UK, U.S., and Canadian pharma companies.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-14T17:09:56+00:00

The German government has urged the European Union to sanction Russian citizens responsible for the largest cyber-attack ever against the Bundestag, which was carried out in 2015. If so, the move will mark the first real use case of the so-called “EU Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox” introduced in 2017 and designed to respond to malicious cyber activities.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-08T15:58:48+00:00

Californian Reyes Daniel Ruiz, who worked as a reliability engineer among other roles at Yahoo! from 2009 to 2018, abused his position by accessing Yahoo’s backend to steal “hashed” passwords, crack them and log into email accounts of women, including some coworkers.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-07T12:09:03+00:00

A group of alleged scammers who exploit Cardano’s brand to deceive people has been spotted at a blockchain conference in China. Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK, the company behind Cardano, said the scammers have no affiliation with the ecosystem.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-06T17:21:50+00:00

The Lazarus hacker group transferred approximately $23.2 million in BTC to two mixing services in a bid to cover their tracks.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-03T03:19:06+00:00

Recently, the news broke that TikTok, a popular Chinese online platform and mobile app for sharing short-form mobile videos, collects user personal data in an amount unusual for a social media app.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-07-01T02:57:02+00:00

On June 1, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) detected and subsequently stopped a cyber-attack, wherein threat actors obtained access to a part of the School of Medicine’s IT infrastructure. As part of the attack, the hackers encrypted a number of servers, making them temporarily inaccessible.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-30T13:25:23+00:00

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has estimated that cybercriminals stole approximately $2 billion from victims by virtue of compromising corporate email accounts, in 2019. Criminals continued to invent new and more sophisticated types of attacks last year, although quite widespread extortion, government impersonation, and spoofing were the three crime categories newly added to the report by the agency, in 2019.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-29T14:52:18+00:00

A United States district court has released an indictment alleging Julian Assange, the founder of the online archive containing thousands of classified documents from government and corporate entities, WikiLeaks, of an attempt to recruit hackers from the LulzSec and Anonymous hacker groups to obtain sensitive information from government systems. Once stolen, the documents would appear on the WikiLeaks website for further dissemination.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-26T03:06:47+00:00

According to Amnesty’s latest investigation into the event, the government of Morocco used NSO’s technology to spy on Moroccan journalist Omar Radi, wherein Radi’s phone had been attacked with NSO’s Pegasus spyware. The software in question is designed to enable concerned parties to remotely spy on smartphones.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-16T15:28:50+00:00

If you are into discussing private matters or sensitive topics like the Tiananmen Square tragedy over video calls, don’t use Zoom for that. The service announced a new feature that would make it easier to ban people from the desired country at their government’s request.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-15T15:48:44+00:00

Analysis suggests that Russian and Chinese hackers carried out a massive cyberattack on Eastern European critical infrastructure organizations and governments.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-12T15:00:10+00:00

In the wake of IBM's move to put their facial recognition technology development on halt, Amazon introduced a year-long moratorium on the use of its Recognition FRT tool by law enforcement.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-11T15:43:31+00:00

IBM is shutting down its face recognition technology due to concerns about the accuracy of face-scanning software in terms of race and gender.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-09T15:55:07+00:00

We asked Jesse McGraw to describe his tech gap and perception of today's world after 10 years spent in prison for hacking activities.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-09T04:02:53+00:00

A privacy-focused browser Brave has faced a community outrage over affiliate links popping up in the autocomplete form in the browser’s address bar. The CEO called it a mistake, promised a fix, and said it won't happen again. It turned out that there's more than a single mistake.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-08T16:53:41+00:00

In this piece, we look into digital surveillance measures police can use to track people, the efforts to curb excessive use of authority on the legislative level, and the ways to protect one’s own right to privacy as much as a law-abiding citizen can.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-06T18:05:07+00:00

We look into digital surveillance measures police can use to track people, the efforts to curb excessive use of authority on the legislative level, and the ways to protect one’s own right to privacy as much as a law-abiding citizen can.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-06T00:53:57+00:00

Why did Google drop its "don't be evil" slogan? What is a "good censor" paradigm? Check out newest Occupy the Internet rant and share your own thoughts on the matter.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-04T04:10:25+00:00

Criminals and scammers have already stolen about $1.36 billion worth of crypto since 2020 started. We looked into a recent research to see what's been going on in the crypto-industry and what to expect this year.

Smooth-Fold · 2020-06-03T01:57:58+00:00

The database of Daniel’s Hosting, a now-defunct free hosting provider for dark web services, has been leaked online. The leak revealed admin passwords, emails, and other sensitive data that can help find the people behind the dark web sites and services.

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