1 week ago"the American people can rest assured that we are working diligently to ensure that our democracy remains secure from foreign threats," says @POTUS in statement.
The European Union proposed steps to force social networks and websites to remove terrorist propaganda within an hour of receiving the order from authorities, or companies like Facebook and Twitter could face massive fines
Reddit bans Qanon subreddits after months of violent threats - NBC News
US just convicted a Russian hacker apprehended earlier in Spain
@StateDept is failing at basic cybersecurity standards, senators say
A newly identified group of 10,000 tweets from nearly 600 Twitter accounts linked to the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency shows that the accounts mostly tweeted about the Affordable Care Act, intending to pit one side against the other.
Norwegian police have found belongings of missing WikiLeaks associate Arjen Kamphuis at sea in northern Norway more than three weeks after he disappeared.
Email box, Twitter account and Livejournal of journalist Arkadiy Babchenko was hacked, attackers likely used his Russian phone number to get control
US judge agreed to send Guccifer back to Romania to finish another a Romanian prison sentence, and then have him returned to the US for a 52-month sentence. Guccifer thought he could fight the second extradition. He had very low chances of success.
1 week agoAfter Facebook ban, Myanmar military accounts are moving to Russian social media site VKontakte "they are spreading their hate freely on the site without any moderation"
1 week agoOne of the world's biggest wallets (possible SilkRoad) is making moves on the blockchain to regather its diversified BTC value totalling 111,114 bitcoins. The wallet originally broke down its BTC value to 100 coins in each of its addresses.
Swedish Election Authority's official website has crashed. 'Result is not in danger' #SwedenElections
2 week agoYoutube shuts down all pro Syrian channels including, Sama TV, Syrian MoD, Sana news agency, Syrian presidency
YouTube has shut down all Syrian government channels today.
Infowars, which is run by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, has been permanently banned from Apple's App Store
2 week agoMidland servers hacked, attackers demanding ransom
2 week agoStatements on Tyurin extradition from @SecretService and @FBI.
Russian hacker Andrei Tyurin extradited to US from Republic of Georgia. He is accused of the largest theft in history of consumer data from a US financial institution, among other crimes.
In Tajikistan authorities have blocked Facebook, Twitter, a leading independent media outlet and VPNs for the past 11 days. They're reported to have obtained a new Russian tech system, given to them for free in exchange for the data it collects.
France suspects Russia tried to intercept military sat comms; Russia satellite move may have been act of spying' - defense minister
2 week agoAt around 23:00 last night the check-in system suffered failure at Beirut Airport. At 2:30, authorities closed the airport. many flights were delayed or cancelled.
"Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope," announces @Twitter.
Twitter has permanently banned Alex Jones and Infowars, citing a video attacking a CNN reporter yesterday:
2 week agoFinancial data of ~380,000 card payments of @British_Airways customers who made online bookings recently has been stolen, according to the airline's parent company.
2 week agoAt Cyber Command, "There is nothing more important than the security of the midterm elections" per Gen Paul Nakasone, with Cyber Command sharing threat indicators and standing ready to impose a cost on adversaries #BillingtonCyber
British Airways says its website and app were compromised; personal and financial details stolen
2 week agoWith secret access to NYPD CCTV @IBM created software which tags people based on their skin tone + hair/clothing color. IBM gave NYPD access, then pitched them on a new AI product which identifies people on camera as "Black," "White," and "Asian":
US Department of Justice to indict North Korean hackers it accuses of cyberattack on Sony, says it's allegedly responsible for global ransomware attack called Wannacry
Rubio pounds Google for its absence. "Maybe it's because they're arrogant" or maybe it's because of Buzzfeed's big story about how they managed to replicate Russian disinfo ops. "I'm sure they don't want to be here to answer these questions."
Rubio says maybe Google is not here because they didn't want to answer questions about a group managing to get Google Ads while using the same info as the .RU IRA
