The family of Imran Awan, the now-indicted former IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other Democrats, was previously accused of fraud in Pakistan involving “huge chunks” of land, but the charges were dropped because “Awan’s son had easy access to the corridors of power,” according to a detailed article in a Pakistani newspaper. […]
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WikiLeaks: CIA Impersonated Kaspersky Labs As a Cover for Its Malware Operations…
WikiLeaks, under its new Vault 8 series of released documents, has rolled out what it says is the source code to a previously noted CIA tool, called Hive, that is used to help hide espionage actions when the Agency implants malware. Hive supposedly allows the CIA to covertly communicate with its software by making it […]
REPORT: Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the NSA to Its Core…
Jake Williams awoke last April in an Orlando, Fla., hotel where he was leading a training session. Checking Twitter, Mr. Williams, a cybersecurity expert, was dismayed to discover that he had been thrust into the middle of one of the worst security debacles ever to befall American intelligence. Mr. Williams had written on his company […]
Seven Years Confined: How A Foia Litigation Is Shedding Light on the Case of Julian Assange…
The siege by Scotland Yard agents around the red brick building in Knightsbridge has been gone for two years now. And with Sweden dropping the rape investigation last May, even the European arrest warrant hanging over Julian Assange’s head like the sword of Damocles has gone. Many expected the founder of WikiLeaks to leave the […]
UK Prosecutors Admit Destroying Key Emails in Julian Assange Case…
The Crown Prosecution Service is facing embarrassment after admitting it destroyed key emails relating to the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy fighting extradition. Email exchanges between the CPS and its Swedish counterparts over the high-profile case were deleted after the lawyer at the UK end retired in 2014. […]
Something Is Wrong on the Internet…
I’ve also been aware for some time of the increasingly symbiotic relationship between younger children and YouTube. I see kids engrossed in screens all the time, in pushchairs and in restaurants, and there’s always a bit of a Luddite twinge there, but I am not a parent, and I’m not making parental judgments for or […]
Vault 8: WikiLeaks Releases Source Code for Hive – CIA’s Malware Control System…
Almost two months after releasing details of 23 different secret CIA hacking tool projects under Vault 7 series, Wikileaks today announced a new Vault 8 series that will reveal source codes and information about the backend infrastructure developed by the CIA hackers. Not just announcement, but the whistleblower organisation has also published its first batch […]
DOJ Orders RT America to Register as Foreign Agent by Monday…
Washington will apply its Foreign Agents Registration Act to RT America, the channel has announced. The Department of Justice has given the broadcaster until Monday to register as a foreign agent, otherwise the channel’s head faces arrest and its accounts could be frozen. The piece of legislation was adopted in the US in 1938 to […]
Dear Senators Portman & Blumenthal: What Should Blogs Do If SESTA Passes?…
So we’ve spent some time talking about why SESTA is such a bad bill even in its updated form (which fixes just a tiny sliver of the overall problems). And we may have some more soon about other problems with the language in the bill, but for now I want to make this even more […]
Fake WhatsApp on Google Play Store Downloaded by Over 1 Million Android Users…
Cybercriminals are known to take advantage of everything that’s popular among people in order to spread malware, and Google’s official Play Store has always proved no less than an excellent place for hackers to get their job done. Yesterday some users spotted a fake version of the most popular WhatsApp messaging app for Android on […]
U.S. Domestic, er, Foreign Spying Bill Progresses Through Congress…
Thought the Snowden leaks would make things better? Joke’s on you. A draft law protecting one of the US government’s spying programs has passed through the initial markup stage in the Congress, providing one more opportunity to witness the “up is down” world in which American politics currently resides. The USA Liberty Act put forward […]
Uber Announces Partnership with NASA on Flying Car Service…
Uber is joining forces with NASA to develop an air traffic management system for its flying taxi service, the company announced Wednesday at a technology conference in Lisbon, as first reported by CNN. The ride-hailing firm first unveiled its ambitious plans for a flying car project last year, as part of Uber’s effort to transform […]
Paradise Papers Reveal How Apple Found a New Tax Haven After the U.S. Senate Started Cracking Down…
Tech giant Apple chose the Channel Islands as a new haven to continue avoiding billions in taxes, the Paradise Papers show. The company picked Jersey as an alternative after a 2013 crackdown on its controversial tax practices in the Republic of Ireland, they reveal. Apple moved the firm holding most of its huge untaxed offshore […]
How Facebook Made Money Dividing the U.S. Into Adversarial Political Subgroups…
Earlier this month Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos threw a twittertantrum over accusations that Facebook’s algorithms promoted fake news in its users’ feeds: “I am seeing a ton of coverage of our recent issues driven by stereotypes of our employees and attacks against fantasy, strawman tech cos,” he wrote. “Nobody of substance…
Sen. Richard Burr Says Media Botched Russian-Social Media Story…
The Russian operatives who ran Facebook ads surrounding last year’s election ran four times as many ads in Maryland — a deep-blue state — than they did on the critical swing state of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Senate intelligence committee said Wednesday. Sen. Richard Burr, North Carolina Republican, also said of the 55 ads […]
Twitter Censored #DNCLeaks, #PodestaEmails Tweets in Last Two Months of Campaign…
Twitter buried significant portions of tweets related to hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta in the last two months of the 2016 presidential campaign. Twitter’s systems hid 48 percent of tweets using the #DNCLeak hashtag and 25 percent of tweets using #PodestaEmails, Twitter general counsel Sean Edgett said […]
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Robots Being Tested in 50 Wal-Mart Stores Across the U.S….
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. customers in a few Arkansas stores will soon cross paths with robots roaming the aisles. The Bentonville company said it will begin using autonomous devices in about 50 stores next month that are programmed to scan store shelves and identify things like out-of-stock items or products incorrectly priced or placed in the […]
Here Are Two of the Russian-Bought Facebook Ads That ‘Helped Sway the Election’…
Democratic Sen. Christopher Coons of Delaware shared two Russian-bought Facebook ads Tuesday during a congressional hearing on the foreign adversary’s attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. One post, published by a page called “Being Patriotic,” promoted an apparently phony event in Pennsylvania for “Miners for Trump” and advocated for coal-mining jobs. Another alleged […]
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On Russia, Tech Doesn’t Know What It Doesn’t Know…
While the Senate has spent the better part of a year making sense of Russia’s actions to influence the 2016 election, tech made quick work of its own analysis — or so it thinks. The glacial pace of Congress is often criticized, particularly contrasted to the tech industry, which still moves fast and breaks things, […]
Dumb and Dumber: Apple Fires iPhone X Engineer After Daughter’s Viral Video…
After his daughter’s YouTube video showing off the iPhone X went viral, Apple reportedly fired one of its iPhone engineers. YouTube vlogger Brooke Amelia Peterson said in a new video on her channel that her father, iPhone engineer Ken Bauer, had been fired after she showcased the new iPhone X. The phone will be available […]
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