The Arctic is melting catastrophically! Sea ice levels are experiencing their most precipitous decline in 1500 years! Something must be done – and fast. Well, so claims the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and we know by now what that means, don’t we? Yep: the Arctic sea ice is doing just fine. Yep: yet […]
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Man Removes Feds’ Spy Cam, They Demand it Back, He Refuses and Sues…
Last November, a 74-year-old rancher and attorney was walking around his ranch just south of Encinal, Texas, when he happened upon a small portable camera strapped approximately eight feet high onto a mesquite tree near his son’s home. The camera was encased in green plastic and had a transmitting antenna. Not knowing what it was […]
SpaceX Takes its First Step Toward Selling Americans Internet from Space…
SpaceX aims to launch two satellites of a new constellation on Feb. 18, the start of a network it expects to one day include more than 4,000 orbiting spacecraft beaming the internet to customers below—and generating billions of dollars in new revenue for the rocket maker. Ajit Pai, chair of the Federal Communications Commission, which […]
Twitter Users Lose Thousands of Followers, Mass Purge of Bots Suspected…
Twitter suspended thousands of accounts overnight and conservatives on the platform aren’t happy about it. Twitter has yet to make a public statement about the issue, but right-wing users believe that they’re being targeted in a mass purge of suspected Russian bot accounts. Conservative Twitter has even started a hashtag called #TwitterLockOut to talk about […]
Sessions Creates Cyber Task Force to Study Election Interference…
The Justice Department is creating a cyber-digital task force to examine outside attempts to interfere with U.S. elections, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday. “At the Department of Justice, we take these threats seriously. That is why today I am ordering the creation of a Cyber-Digital Task Force to advise me on the most effective […]
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Kim Dotcom: “Let me assure you, the DNC hack wasn’t even a hack”…
Kim Dotcom has once again chimed in on the DNC hack, following a Sunday morning tweet from President Trump clarifying his previous comments on Russian meddling in the 2016 election – “I never said Russia did not meddle in the election, I said “it may be Russia, or China or another country or group, or […]
Charleston Chopper Crash Blamed on Private Drone…
Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are investigating a serious helicopter crash that may have been triggered by a drone Wednesday near the southern tip of Daniel Island, South Carolina, in what could be the first-ever drone-related crash of an aircraft in the United States. The crash was initially reported on Wednesday by WCSC-TV, […]
Opinion: Fearless Adversarial Journalism Doesn’t Work When You Are Funded by a Billionaire…
Disobedient Media previously opined on the dagger-in-the-back publication of a hit piece against Wikileaks’ Julian Assange just one day after a UK magistrate, with blatant conflict of interest in the matter, shot down his legal representatives’ attempt to finally free him from the confines of the Ecuadorian embassy. What that article did not address was […]
Belgian Court Orders Facebook to Stop Collecting Data on Citizens, Threatens Fines of up to $125M…
A Belgian court has ordered Facebook to stop collecting data about the country’s citizens, and to delete information previously gathered. It threatened to fine the social network €250,000 a day if it fails to comply. In its ruling, the court determined that Facebook does not adequately inform users that it is collecting information. “Facebook informs […]
CIA Argues The Public Can’t See Classified Information it Has Already Given to Favored Reporters…
Intelligence officials can selectively release classified information to trusted journalists while withholding the same information from other citizens who request it through open records laws, CIA lawyers argued Wednesday. In a motion filed in New York federal court, the CIA claimed that limited disclosures to reporters do not waive national security exemptions to Freedom of […]
Et Tu, The Intercept? Smear of Assange Murderously Timed…
The T-Room here: We read half-way through The Intercept piece on Assange and immediately saw it for what it was–a smear job. It’s shameful that a site who few would ever read, without the Snowden–Greenwald connection, would wield its hubris towards a guy who has otherwise been forced to hold himself captive due to European […]
FedEx Data Breach: 119k Passports or Photo IDs Found on Unsecured Server…
Thousands of FedEx (FDX) customers’ private information was exposed after the company left scanned passports, driver’s licenses and other personal documentation on a publicly accessible server. The incident was first discovered by researchers at a German-based security center called Kromtech earlier this month. According to the security firm, the server belonged to Bongo International, a […]
How Chrome Ad Blocking Is Already Changing the Web…
What was once unthinkable — that Chrome would block online ads, Google’s lifeblood — becomes reality on Thursday. That’s when Chrome takes a significant step in the direction that hundreds of millions of us already have gone by installing ad blockers. Chrome stops far short of those browser extensions, which typically ban all ads, but […]
Six U.S. Intelligence Agencies Warn Against Using Huawei Phones…
“We’re deeply concerned about the risks of allowing any company or entity that is beholden to foreign governments that don’t share our values to gain positions of power inside our telecommunications networks. That provides the capacity to exert pressure or control over our telecommunications infrastructure. It provides the capacity to maliciously modify or steal information. […]
U.S. Homeland Security Refutes NBC Report That Claims Russia Hacked 2016 Elections…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said a recent report by NBC News was misleading. The channel claimed Russia “successfully penetrated” the voting systems of several states. “Recent NBC reporting has misrepresented facts and confused the public with regard to Department of Homeland Security and state and local government efforts to combat election hacking,” DHS […]
SURVEY: Less-Cool Facebook Losing Youth at Fast Pace…
With mom, dad and grandma signing up in increasing numbers, Facebook is losing younger users in the United States at a faster pace than previously estimated, researchers said Monday. A report by eMarketer said Snapchat is drawing youths away from Facebook at a quicker clip than Facebook-owned Instagram. Facebook is still growing in the US […]
Inside the Two Years that Shook Facebook—and the World…
One day in late February of 2016, Mark Zuckerberg sent a memo to all of Facebook’s employees to address some troubling behavior in the ranks. His message pertained to some walls at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters where staffers are encouraged to scribble notes and signatures. On at least a couple of occasions, someone had […]
Scam Hijacks Google Chrome Browser, Tries to Get Your Personal Data…
Scams that hijack the world’s most popular browser, Google Chrome, are making the rounds again. It starts with a fake error message. For computer users, this is a vexing problem because the underlying malicious code locks up the browser. “The bug that it triggers is more than just an annoyance in the sense that it […]
Major International Cyber Fraud Ring Takedown…
Thanks for participating on the call. My name is David Rybicki. I am a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division here at the Department of Justice and I supervise the Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section. Today marks a significant step in the battle against transnational cybercrime. A federal grand jury in the […]
Watch Out! New Cryptocurrency-Mining Android Malware Is Spreading Rapidly…
Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, threat actors are increasingly targeting every platform, including IoT, Android, and Windows, with malware that leverages the CPU power of victims’ devices to mine cryptocurrency. Just last month, Kaspersky researchers spotted fake antivirus and porn Android apps infected with malware that mines Monero cryptocurrency, launches DDoS attacks, […]
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