The US Ambassador to Beijing: China's position on banning TikTok is ridiculous
7 month agoLive network data show today's telecoms disruption in Africa has intensified; the incident has high impact to West Africa with significant reductions in connectivity evident across the continent; operators report multiple subsea cable failures
352-65-1: The House overwhelmingly passes a bill to effectively ban TikTok in the U.S. unless its China-based parent company, ByteDance, sells the social media platform. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) voted "present." The bill faces an uncertain path in the Senate
US Intelligence: We do not rule out that China will deliberately use TikTok to influence the US elections
A number of electronic services of the government of the Belgorod region were hacked in a cyberattack, messages from governor were distributed
Iran's Intelligence Ministry says it has "dismantled the largest financial crime network and its associated online gambling enterprises linked to the United Kingdom."
Russian state-backed hackers gained access to Microsoft's core software systems, company says in update to intrusion first disclosed in January
Sales of alcohol suspended across retailer networks in Moscow after failure of system of Alcohol and Tobacco control agency
Ukrainian military intelligence claims DDoS attack against website of Russian defense ministry
A regulation banning advertisements and other methods of promoting VPN services came into effect in Russia today
After a large-scale failure in Telegram in Russia, social networks Instagram and X (Twitter), blocked in Russia, started working without a VPN - Shot
8 month agoIssues reported with Telegram
US used artificial intelligence to identify targets hit by air strikes in Middle East. Machine learning algorithms helped to narrow down targets for more than 85 air strikes on Feb. 2, according to US Central Command chief technology officer
8 month agoConfirmed: Metrics show a disruption to network connectivity at the Djibouti Data Center which connects the country's landing stations; the incident comes as Israeli media report four submarine cables across the Red Sea including SEACOM have been targeted by Houthi rebels
The fact that today’s AT&T outage affected some devices and not others (sometimes within a single household) suggests this isn’t BGP (or solar flares, cyberwar, etc), but some sort of faulty maintenance push by AT&T
8 month agoDownDetector.com results for ATT, Cricket Wireless, Verizon, and T-Mobile show an interruption in service for some users with ATT being affected the most severely. It appears the problems started around 0330-0400EST and continue at this hour.ATT customers are experiencing a nationwide outage in many areas this morning. Some Verizon and T-Mobile customers are also affected
8 month agoTwitter has suspended Yulia Navalny's account. She is Alexei Navalny's widow
Russian hackers infiltrated systems of Espreso TV and aired Russian propaganda videos
The X account of the biggest independent media in Ukraine (Ukrainian Pravda) has been hacked, pro-Russian messages have been shared there
French Defense Minister: Russian cyber attacks have become more aggressive against infrastructure
Telegram is reported down for many users
Details from @TheJusticeDept on takedown of Russia GRU cyber espionage schemennOp "neutralized a network of hundreds of small office/home office (SOHO) routers that GRU Military Unit 26165 [aka FancyBear] used to conceal & otherwise enable a variety of crimes"
8 month agoFrench counter-disinformation service @Viginum_Gouv unearthed a pro-russian propaganda network named "Portal Kombat". Foreign affairs ministers @steph_sejourne, @ABaerbock and @sikorskiradek announced today a common mechanism to raise alert and fight back
9 month agoWebsite of Ministry of Education of Ukraine is not available as result of cyberattack
9 month agoThe Prana Network breached email servers of #SaharaThunder and revealed details of Shahed drones supply to Russia with some payments made in gold
Chair of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party - @RepGallagher - calls for the US to ban or force the sale of TikTok "The time is now to act" he says
9 month agoUkrainian Military Intelligence claimed cyberattack against protected networks of Russian Ministry of Defense
The operation of sites and applications in the .RU domain zone began to recover after a failure - RIA Novosti
Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation: a technical problem has arisen affecting the .RU zone associated with the global DNSSEC* infrastructure.
9 month agoIssues with cellular network services and ISPs reported in Russian segment of Internet
