www.azcentral.com – Praying Medic, the pen name of an Arizona man who has become one of the more popular and influential interpreters of the writings by the mysterious entity known as Q, has left Facebook after the social media website announced a crackdown on pages promoting the QAnon conspiracy. QAnon, [More …]
telecoms.com – A bunch of Facebook execs met with representatives of a group that is attempting to impose its will on the company by pressuring its commercial partners. As it signaled a week ago, Facebook has taken the only sensible and sustainable stance it can in the face of a [More …]
www.newsbusters.org – From NewsBusters.org — The Philadelphia Statement Pushes Back Against attacks on Free Speech perpetrated by leftist professors … – – – – – – – – – – – According to NewsBusters.org — The violence, looting and mayhem that this nation has seen over the last several months [More …]
www.pewresearch.org – Americans have little confidence in technology companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to prevent the misuse of their platforms to influence the 2020 presidential election. Above, workers in Facebook’s “war room” in Menlo Park, California, in 2018. (Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images) Three-quarters of U.S. adults say technology [More …]
reclaimthenet.org – After slowly chipping away at QAnon over the last few months, Facebook has made one of its biggest censorship moves to date and announced a blanket ban on pages, groups, and accounts representing the movement. The announcement is one of the largest and most far-reaching bans Facebook has [More …]
reason.com – The Senate Commerce Committee voted on Thursday to subpoena various “Big Tech” CEOs in advance of the U.S. presidential election. The unanimous decision—supported by all of the committee’s Republicans and Democrats—shows that bipartisanship isn’t dead, sadly. Democrats were initially wary of supporting the subpoena, according to National Journal’s [More …]
telecoms.com – The US President’s crusade to tackle what he perceives as biased political censorship by social media platforms is gathering momentum. The US Department of Justice, acting on behalf of the Trump administration, has sent draft legislation to Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. According [More …]
www.eff.org – The long-awaited report[pdf] by the House Judiciary Committee staff[1] on Big Tech’s monopoly power hits all the right notes—and just a few wrong ones. Following a year of hearings and research, the staff of the Subcommittee on Antitrust found that Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple all have either significant [More …]
thepostmillennial.com – A grand jury indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey Tuesday on charges of exhibiting guns at rioters, and now tampering with evidence. This is following an incident where the couple had shown their willingness to defend their home against protestors that were trespassing on their property. Mr. and Mrs. [More …]
www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com – In August, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo launched the Clean Network program — “the Trump administration’s comprehensive approach to guarding our citizens’ privacy and our companies’ most sensitive information from aggressive intrusions by malign actors, such as the Chinese Communist Party.” In addition to the 5G Clean Path initiative announced in April on securing [More …]
www.hitc.com – Trump has just revealed that he’s recovered from Covid-19 in record time, and Twitter users are comparing it to a Willy Wonka scene. The meme has been going viral on Twitter that sees Donald Trump’s face edited onto Willy Wonka from the original 1971 film Willy Wonka & [More …]
www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com – The spread of false narratives about the election through social media poses a serious threat to American democracy. The Observatory on Social Media at Indiana University has a collection of tools and studies that aid in the fight against election manipulation and disinformation. The first presidential debate has come [More …]
www.darkreading.com – The approach is a long time in coming and will test the premise that users can more easily detect a suspicious domain from the name alone. Google’s Chrome86 browser is about to get tested with a new look and feel to help thwart phishing attacks. The browser will only [More …]
www.eff.org – Cops in Vallejo have put their controversial cell-phone surveillance tool back in the box, after a judge released a tentative ruling (which the judge might or might not later finalize or amend) that they’d acquired it in violation of state law. The case was brought by Oakland Privacy, an [More …]
www.winonadailynews.com – Take a look back on the volatile civil unrest of the 1960s with this retrospective written by Jules Loh, AP newsfeatures author, and appeared within the Winona Daily News Dec. 28, 1969: Now the last decade of the ‘60s is ended. The outdated poet is lifeless. And the [More …]
www.togiblog.com – A day after the Senate Commerce Committee moved forward with plans to subpoena the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google, it looks like some of the most powerful leaders in tech will testify willingly. Twitter announced late Friday that Jack Dorsey would appear virtually before the committee on [More …]
www.darkreading.com – Online security researchers report that thousands of Emotet emails containing a message body were pulled directly from the Democratic National Committee website, spoofing the DNC in a new attack campaign. Emotet is a Trojan that is primarily spread through spam emails (aka, malspam). The infection may arrive either [More …]
www.darkreading.com – At Black Hat Asia, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity researchers use neural networks to attempt to identify authors, but accuracy is still wanting. With disinformation on social media a significant problem, the ability to identify authors of malicious articles and the originators of disinformation campaigns could help reduce the [More …]
ArmyTimes.com – The Army announced the discontinuation of both the Asymmetric Warfare Group and the Rapid Equipping Force as the U.S. Army transitions from counterinsurgency operations to a focus on multi-domain operations and large-scale combat operations. Exact reasons for AWG closure are not clear, but sources who spoke with Army [More …]
TheHackersNews.com – Writing advanced malware for a threat actor requires different groups of people with diverse technical expertise to put them all together. But can the code leave enough clues to reveal the person behind it? To this effect, cybersecurity researchers on Friday detailed a new methodology to identify exploit [More …]
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