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Technology and cyber security.
Tuesday 14 May 2019
The executive order would invoke the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which gives the president the authority to regulate commerce in response to a national emergency that threatens the United States.
Thursday 21 March 2019
...after unlawfully withholding records from a reporter under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Tuesday 19 March 2019
Within 24 hours, the video of a mass terror attack that killed 50 people across two mosques had been uploaded onto Facebook more than 1.5 million times.
Explaining the error, Facebook said it caps the amount of identical, repetitive activity coming from one account in a short period of time as to stop automated bots.
Saturday 16 March 2019
Friday 15 March 2019
He appeared to be steeped in the culture of the extreme-right internet.
Thursday 14 March 2019
At least 49 people were killed at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand
Tuesday 12 March 2019
Tuesday 26 February 2019
The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election
Thursday 21 February 2019
Thursday 14 February 2019
A clip in which the congresswoman asks ethics experts about government corruption has been viewed 40 million times
Wednesday 13 February 2019
It's never appeared on any hundreds of underground websites selling stolen information. Security experts haven't seen the data used in any of the ways they'd expect in a theft like this — not for impersonating victims, not for accessing other websites, nothing.
Thursday 7 February 2019
In the AMI letters I’m making public, you will see the precise details of their extortionate proposal
Tuesday 5 February 2019
Pai's FCC is too secretive and too beholden to corporations, Democrats say.
Friday 1 February 2019
Skeptical judges question FCC's justification of net neutrality repeal.
The legal arguments are highly technical, focusing on whether the FCC acted properly when it classified the internet as a lightly-regulated "information service" — as opposed to a "telecommunications service," which is subject to stringent rules.
Thursday 31 January 2019
...indictments, international sanctions, a botched assassination and an unprecedented global spotlight have done little to deter Vladimir Putin from continuing to target the West with his hacker army
Tuesday 29 January 2019
On May 29, A.X allegedly walked into T-Mobile's lab, broke off Tappy's arm, and put it into his bag.
Wednesday 23 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 33
When Trump FCC Chairman Ajit Pai cheated his way to a repeal of Net Neutrality, he justified allowing ISPs to decide to slow down the services you want to use by saying that doing so would encourage investment in network buildout
Monday 21 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 31
A controversial video of Catholic students clashing with American Indians appeared to tell a simple truth. A second video called that story into question. But neither shows what truly happened.
Thursday 17 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 27
Shutdown or no, the consolidated lawsuits facing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its 2017 rules that wiped out net neutrality protections nationwide will go forward on Feb. 1
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 26
Such visits raise questions about whether patronizing Trump’s private business is viewed as a way to influence public policy
Monday 14 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 24
The Chairman's staff said the selling of location data is not a 'threat to the safety of human life or property that the FCC will address during the Trump shutdown.'
Thursday 20 December 2018
The state-connected hackers are accused of penetrating networks of U.S. agencies and companies.
Tuesday 18 December 2018
Saturday 15 December 2018
There are five days left for the House to overrule the FCC.
Tuesday 11 December 2018
More than ever before, in the Trump era the right needs rank-and-file conservatives to distrust any information they receive from non-conservative sources
...saying he wants to scour their social media to see if they're biased against conservatives.
Wednesday 5 December 2018
Around 500,000 comments were linked to Russian email addresses.
“Twitter allowed someone to invade my text with a disgusting anti-President message”
Monday 3 December 2018
FCC denies NYT appeal, says producing requested records is too hard.
Sunday 25 November 2018
The documents are said to detail Zuckerberg's direct knowledge of, and participation in, the privacy loophole that Cambridge Analytica exploited.
Friday 9 November 2018
Kemp (who was running for governor at the same time as he was overseeing the integrity of the election and also putting in place a bunch of attempts at voter suppression) has doxxed hundreds of thousands (291,164 to be exact) of absentee voters by posting an Excel file on the state's website listing out the names, addresses and reasons why they voted absentee.
Monday 5 November 2018
The ad tries to motivate GOP turnout by playing on fears of the migrants traveling through Mexico.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused a request by the Trump administration and the telecommunications industry to wipe away a lower court decision that had upheld Obama-era net neutrality rules aimed at ensuring a free and open internet
Friday 26 October 2018
Thursday 25 October 2018
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Trump’s aides have repeatedly warned him that his cellphone calls are not secure, and they have told him that Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on the calls, as well.
Monday 22 October 2018
"Reporters got played or took liberties. Bloomberg should retract."
Sunday 21 October 2018
Wednesday 17 October 2018
NY AG subpoenas lobby firms, says fake comments "distort[ed] public opinion."
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Ms. Underwood’s investigators have estimated that almost half of all of the comments — more than nine million — used stolen identities.
Monday 15 October 2018
...on the day of its launch.
Friday 12 October 2018
They say the FCC was well within its rights to repeal net neutrality.
FCC defends repeal in court, claims broadband isn't "telecommunications."
Thursday 4 October 2018
...accusing them in a sprawling indictment of hacking, wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering as part of an effort to distract from Russia's state-sponsored doping program.
The attack by Chinese spies reached almost 30 U.S. companies, including Amazon and Apple, by compromising America’s technology supply chain
In emailed statements, Amazon (which announced its acquisition of Elemental in September 2015), Apple, and Supermicro disputed summaries of Bloomberg Businessweek’s reporting.
Wednesday 3 October 2018
Banks have been targeted in the U.S, Vietnam, Turkey, Mexico, India, Ecuador, Chile and Bangladesh, among other countries.
At 2:18 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday, cellphones across the United States will emit the ominous ring of an emergency presidential alert.
Sunday 30 September 2018
Under the law, internet service providers will not be allowed to block or slow specific types of content or applications, or charge apps or companies fees for faster access to customers.
“DO NOT ADD the hoax about a ‘drinking game’, especially as related by Brett Kavanaugh. We do not dignify such hoaxes with mention.”
Monday 24 September 2018
Reddit users have uncovered an elaborate campaign to seed Reddit’s most popular pro-Trump community with content linked to Russian influence operations
Sunday 23 September 2018
The Times has filed multiple Freedom of Information Act requests for data on the comments since July 2017, and now [...] it is taking the FCC to court in a bid to get the information.
Saturday 22 September 2018
The proposed text focuses on "bias" at the companies
Friday 21 September 2018
...the draft says that platforms are central to the flow of information and commerce and need to be held accountable through competition
Monday 17 September 2018
The wireless emergency alert test was set to go out Thursday before FEMA announced it will be pushed back to Oct. 3.
It's entirely up to the president what to say and when, so there is some fear — stoked by the publicity around Thursday's test — that the president could use it to send partisan messages.
Tuesday 11 September 2018
While far from the final word, Pai used the opportunity to hammer home the FCC's stance.
Thursday 6 September 2018
New followers are also crucial to Mr. Jones’s business hawking nutritional supplements and survival gear, which help fund his Infowars operation.
Then, he broke into an auctioneer’s rhythmic patter, drowning Loomer out as he recited a string of imaginary bids.
Only one North Korean, Park Jin-hyok, was named — charged with computer fraud and wire fraud
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Alex Jones and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) had a less than amicable exchange outside of Wednesday's Senate hearing on social media accountability.
Sessions has engaged state attorneys general in talks on what the DOJ said are increasing concerns that Twitter, Facebook and Google are restricting the free flow of information, as Republicans allege anti-conservative bias from the platforms.
The U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general will meet this month to discuss concerns that social media platforms are “intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas”
Tuesday 4 September 2018
While many dislike the idea of tech companies censoring political speech, and Infowars leans far right, Mr. Jones regularly spreads lies, conspiracy theories and inflammatory attacks against political enemies.
Sunday 2 September 2018
The app developer at the heart of the Facebook privacy scandal says the social media giant didn't enforce its own rules
Thursday 30 August 2018
Essentially, conservatives want to create a world where objective information and right-wing disinformation are treated equally.
Wednesday 29 August 2018
The president falsely claimed Google did not link to State of the Union addresses
This afternoon, President Donald Trump once again accused Google, Facebook, and Twitter of vaguely defined censorship that “may not be legal”
The FCC can "choose which evidence to believe," court says.
Tuesday 28 August 2018
The announcement puts the search giant squarely in the White House’s crosshairs amid wider allegations against the tech industry that it systematically discriminates against conservatives on social media and other platforms.
Another possibility is that Trump just had a historically bad week
Monday 27 August 2018
Since FCC abandoned net neutrality, Democrats say FTC must probe Verizon.
Friday 24 August 2018
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Fire dep't had to pay twice as much to lift throttling during wildfire response.
Towns where Facebook use was higher than average, like Altena, reliably experienced more attacks on refugees. That held true in virtually any sort of community — big city or small town; affluent or struggling; liberal haven or far-right stronghold — suggesting that the link applies universally.
A group affiliated with the Russian government created phony versions of six websites — including some related to public policy and to the U.S. Senate — with the apparent goal of hacking into the computers of people who were tricked into visiting
Monday 20 August 2018
As her husband continued to rip into his adversaries on Twitter, first lady Melania Trump on Monday warned that social media can be used in a “destructive and harmful” manner
Sunday 19 August 2018
Saturday 18 August 2018
Thursday 16 August 2018
Telling no one, the chairman has known all year.
Tuesday 14 August 2018
Pai's FCC claimed for more than a year that a May 2017 outage in the public comments system was caused by multiple DDoS attacks. In reality, the FCC system crashed because it was unable to handle an influx of comments
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Pai acknowledged Monday that the FCC lied about its public comment system being taken down by a DDoS attack during the net neutrality repeal proceeding.
Pai [...] said that he isn't to blame because he "inherited... a culture" from "the prior Administration" that led to the spreading of false information.
Monday 6 August 2018
Facebook finally took action Monday because it says the Infowars content broke its standards by "repeatedly" posting hate speech that "attacks or dehumanizes" others.
Sunday 5 August 2018
Apple's decision to remove all episodes of Jones' popular show — rather than just specific offending episodes — is one of the largest enforcement actions intended to curb conspiratorial news content by a technology company to date.
Wednesday 1 August 2018
The midterms are approaching, and the president has yet to get serious about protecting the nation’s electoral system from cyberinvasion.
Tuesday 31 July 2018
"It's clear that whoever set up these accounts went to much greater lengths to obscure their true identities than the Russian-based Internet Research Agency (IRA) has in the past"
Monday 30 July 2018
All states, to some extent or another, rely on these private companies for election products. But despite the central role these companies play, state regulations of them are relatively lax.
Friday 27 July 2018
...there is surprisingly far more effort directed at implanting malware in the electrical grid.
Thursday 26 July 2018
Sunday 22 July 2018
When World War III Starts, It'll Start Here™
Friday 20 July 2018
Known variously as Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Pawn Storm, Strontium, Tsar Team, Sednit, and APT28, the Russian hackers that did the intrusions for the Kremlin’s election interference campaign have been active for 12 years
Thursday 19 July 2018
...departures that come as cyberattacks are a major concern for the country’s security agencies.
Wednesday 18 July 2018
At issue is a grants program overseen by the federal Election Assistance Commission and aimed at helping states administer their elections and improve voting systems
Tuesday 17 July 2018
It is the latest initiative by national security agencies to push back against Russian aggression in the absence of direct guidance from the White House on the issue.
In some cases, the findings also exposed wild inconsistencies between the way moderators were being trained and Facebook's standards.
Monday 16 July 2018
The FCC's decision is a significant blow for Sinclair [...] It’s also a surprising turn of events for Pai
Saturday 14 July 2018
According to the indictment, the accounts were used as false personas to release tens of thousands of stolen emails and documents.
Facebook's admission that fake news hurt Facebook users' experience and the company's pledges to change have the ring of "sorry not sorry" to them.
Friday 13 July 2018
While the Russian government claims it needs this DNS alternative as a defensive measure to avoid American and Western European cyberattacks, security experts worry it could be used as a backup for an offensive attack.
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Tuesday 10 July 2018
If the consumer isn’t happy with the outcome of the informal complaint, their only other option would be filing a formal complaint and paying the $225 to do so.
Saturday 7 July 2018
Friday 22 June 2018
“We decline to grant the state unrestricted access to a wireless carrier’s database of physical location information,”
Thursday 21 June 2018
...more the double the number previously given by the Department of Homeland Security.
Wednesday 20 June 2018
Critics accuse Santiago of weakening the bill on behalf of the telecommunications industry. He received at least $54,000 from the industry since the 2016 election.
Tuesday 19 June 2018
A previously inconspicuous blog post on Microsoft’s corporate Web site ... has ignited workplace frustrations at Microsoft over the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration policies. T
Monday 11 June 2018
Enacted in 2015, the rules sought to stop providers giving preferential treatment to sites and services that paid them to accelerate their data.
Wednesday 6 June 2018
Facebook has data-sharing partnerships with four Chinese device makers, including Huawei.
Friday 1 June 2018
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Thursday 31 May 2018
The word “Nazism” was hyperlinked to a secondary page that shows “Nazism” alongside other “ideologies” of California Republicans like “Conservatism,” "Market liberalism,” “Fiscal conservatism,” and “Green conservatism."
Thursday 24 May 2018
...including so-called issue ads that were used by Russian-linked accounts to spread misinformation and chaos in the 2016 election.
Wednesday 23 May 2018
Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, according to the judge.
Monday 21 May 2018
The president has kept features at risk for hacking and resisted efforts by staff to inspect the phones he uses for tweeting.
Tuesday 15 May 2018
Prosecutors have questioned potential witnesses in recent weeks, telling them that there is an open investigation into Cambridge Analytica ... and “associated U.S. persons.”
Originalism is one thing, but limiting the Constitution to property rights cognizable in the days of the horse and carriage is another. As in many other areas of Justice Thomas’ jurisprudence—civil rights chief among them—his principles would create a majoritarian republic that looks nothing like American democracy today.
Thursday 10 May 2018
Sometimes, Russian trolls also tried to fuel rallies and protests, endeavoring at one point in 2016 to pit Beyoncé fans and critics against each other in New York City.
Many of the ads, placed by Russians posing as Americans, didn't endorse a specific candidate but spread inflammatory messages on sensitive subjects such as immigration and race to amplify fault lines in American life
Friday 4 May 2018
In their request on Friday to put off the arraignment, prosecutors included the extensive demands for information that the lawyers for Concord Management have set forth since they stepped forward last month.
Tuesday 1 May 2018
Republican FCC commissioner Michael O’Rielly broke a federal law preventing officials from advocating for political candidates when he told a crowd that one way to avoid policy changes was to “make sure that President Trump gets reelected,”
Wednesday 25 April 2018
More surveillance orders were denied during President Donald Trump's first year in office than in the court's history.
Monday 16 April 2018
The announcement, made jointly with the United Kingdom, is the latest in a growing string of cases where Western governments have pointed a finger at Moscow for high-profile digital malfeasance
Wednesday 11 April 2018
...a move that could be a bid to gain access to evidence that special counsel Robert Mueller's office gathered in preparing the case.
Lawmakers on both side of the aisle grilled Mr. Zuckerberg over his company’s handling of user data and were particularly focused on the platform’s privacy settings
Friday 30 March 2018
Monday 26 March 2018
ICE, the federal agency tasked with Trump’s program of mass deportation, uses backend Facebook data to locate and track immigrants that it is working to round up
Saturday 24 March 2018
Around 18 investigators were seen entering the company’s London headquarters after obtaining a warrant to search its database and servers Friday night
Friday 23 March 2018
Mr. Bolton’s political committee ... first hired Cambridge in August 2014, months after the political data firm was founded and while it was still harvesting the Facebook data.
Tuesday 20 March 2018
Bannon — while he was a top executive at Cambridge Analytica and head of Breitbart News — was deeply involved in the company’s strategy and approved spending nearly $1 million to acquire data, including Facebook profiles, in 2014.
The news comes as Cambridge and its British counterpart, SCL, face a barrage of questions over how their companies managed 50 million Facebook users' data, and also whether Nix and other executives use dirty tricks like extortion and fake news on behalf of their clients
At issue for the company -- and at the heart of the FTC probe -- is a settlement they reached with the agency in November 2011, ending an investigation that Facebook deceived users about the privacy protections they are afforded on the site.
Monday 19 March 2018
Mr. Stamos, who plans to leave Facebook by August, had advocated more disclosure around Russian interference of the platform and some restructuring to better address the issues, but was met with resistance by colleagues
Sunday 18 March 2018
Facebook on Sunday faced a backlash about how it protects user data, as American and British lawmakers demanded that it explain how a political data firm with links to President Trump’s 2016 campaign was able to harvest private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles without the social network’s alerting users.
Saturday 17 March 2018
The committee may also consider adding ProtonMail, the encrypted email service, to that list. One White House staffer, Ryan P. McAvoy, jotted his ProtonMail passwords and his address on a piece of White House stationery and left it at a bus stop near the White House.
Friday 16 March 2018
Facebook is suspending the Trump-affiliated data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica, after learning that it failed to delete data that it had taken inappropriately from users of the social network
Thursday 15 March 2018
The Treasury Department on Thursday slapped new sanctions on 24 Russian entities and individuals for interfering in the 2016 election and conducting a series of damaging cyberattacks, a major step towards punishing Russia for its increasingly bellicose behavior.
Wednesday 14 March 2018
“We do not do this lightly, but they have repeatedly posted content designed to incite animosity and hatred against minority groups, which disqualifies the Pages from our service”
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Governor Jay Inslee signed the bill (House Bill 2282) this morning, which prohibits ISPs from blocking legal content, apps, and services. It will also prevent the slowing down of connection speeds, also known as throttling, as well as paid prioritization
Friday 23 February 2018
So here’s the essence of what went wrong for Manafort and Gates, according to Mueller’s investigation: Manafort allegedly wanted to falsify his company’s income, but he couldn’t figure out how to edit the PDF. He therefore had Gates turn it into a Microsoft Word document for him, which led the two to bounce the documents back-and-forth over email.
Saturday 17 February 2018
The social network, more than any other technology tool, was singled out on Friday by the Justice Department when prosecutors charged 13 Russians and three companies for executing a scheme to subvert the 2016 election and support Donald J. Trump’s presidential campaign.
Friday 16 February 2018
The Federal Communications Commission’s inspector general office launched an investigation into allegations that chairman Ajit Pai had improperly coordinated with a conservative local television company to allow for greater consolidation in the industry.
Monday 29 January 2018
A Trump administration trial balloon on creating a nationalized 5G wireless network landed with a resounding thud in Washington on Monday as Republicans and Democrats as well as the country's telecom giants rushed to condemn it as unworkable.
Monday 22 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 3
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) signed an executive order on Monday requiring internet service providers with state contracts to abide by net neutrality principles.
Monday 15 January 2018
The tally leaves supporters just one Republican vote shy of the 51 required to pass a Senate resolution of disapproval, in a legislative gambit aimed at restoring the agency's net neutrality rules.
Sunday 14 January 2018
“Based on the information we have collected so far, it appears that the government of Hawaii did not have reasonable safeguards or process controls in place to prevent the transmission of a false alert”
Wednesday 10 January 2018
Dickey’s addition is particularly notable because he is the first publicly known member of the team specializing solely in cyber issues.
Tuesday 9 January 2018
A Senate bill reviewing the FCC’s recent decision to undo net-neutrality protections received its 30th co-sponsor this week, thus ensuring that it will come to a vote.
Friday 5 January 2018
Customs officers stationed at the American border and at airports searched an estimated 30,200 cellphones, computers and other electronic devices of people entering and leaving the United States last year — an almost 60 percent increase from 2016
Tuesday 2 January 2018
...a group of senators led by James Lankford (R-Okla.) wants to shore up the security of American voting systems ahead of the 2018 and 2020 elections. And the senators have focused on two major changes that have broad support from voting security experts.
Monday 1 January 2018
The aftermath of the data breach played out like a familiar script: White-hot bipartisan outrage, then hearings and proposals that went nowhere.
Thursday 28 December 2017
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Tuesday 26 December 2017
The ship traffic came days after the head of the British military warned in an interview of the threat of Russian submarine activity near the sensitive undersea data cables that carry Internet traffic between North America and Europe.
Monday 18 December 2017
The digital assault, powered by the WannaCry ransomware, locked up computers at hospitals, universities and businesses in dozens of countries. Its authors demanded ransom payments and threatened to delete victims’ data if they didn’t pay up.
The story of net neutrality as an Obama-led takeover of the internet was refuted by an Inspector General investigation whose findings were not made public prior to Thursday’s vote.
Friday 15 December 2017
“He wants the agency that oversees communications networks to wash its hands of the most important communications network of the 21st century.”
Thursday 14 December 2017
The new rules largely don’t prevent internet providers from doing anything. They can block, throttle, and prioritize content if they wish to. The only real rule is that they have to publicly state that they’re going to do it.
Friday 8 December 2017
“As you know, the FCC is captured by the industry, but we think it’s not captured enough, so we have a plan.”
“What plan?” Pai asks.
“We want to brainwash and groom a Verizon puppet to install as FCC chairman,” the executive says. “Think ‘Manchurian Candidate.’”
“That sounds awesome,” Pai responds.
Monday 27 November 2017
For years, Comcast has been promising that it won't violate the principles of net neutrality, regardless of whether the government imposes any net neutrality rules. ... This was one of the ways in which Comcast argued that the Federal Communications Commission should not reclassify broadband providers as common carriers, a designation that forces ISPs to treat customers fairly in other ways.
Comcast now vaguely says that it won't "discriminate against lawful content" or impose "anti-competitive paid prioritization." The change in wording suggests that Comcast may offer paid fast lanes to websites or other online services, such as video streaming providers, after Pai's FCC eliminates the net neutrality rules next month.
Saturday 25 November 2017
While it’s certainly true that ISPs do in some ways store and generate data on behalf of the user, usually as part of managing their networks, it’s equally certain that their primary purpose is to transmit data between the user and points of his or her choosing. Consequently, broadband should be classified as a telecommunications service.
Wednesday 22 November 2017
Schneiderman said in a tweet his office has been investigating a "massive scheme" over the last six months to "corrupt the FCC's comment process on net neutrality by impersonating 100,000s of real Americans."
...the goal here isn't just for "more reasonable regulatory oversight" or "slightly less regulatory oversight," the goal here is almost zero oversight of one of the most predatory and anti-competitive legacy business sectors in America.
Monday 20 November 2017
The move comes amid a growing political storm over whether the Trump administration has tried to use its review of the merger to force the sale of CNN, a frequent target of the president's media criticism.
Friday 17 November 2017
In May, the FCC said that its comment system went down due to “deliberate attempts by external actors to bombard the FCC’s comment system with a high amount of traffic,” ... the Government Accountability Office is now investigating that DDoS attack because the FCC’s description of what happened raised some red flags, including questions as to whether or not the attack actually happened
Friday 3 November 2017
Guccifer 2.0 has denied having any links to Russia. But digital fingerprints were left on the hacks that led the US intelligence community ... to conclude that the cyberattacks were largely, if not entirely, carried out by two Russian intelligence groups.
Wednesday 1 November 2017
“This is sloppy at best, and potentially criminally negligent at worst, depending on the traffic that is being run through these servers.”
Thursday 26 October 2017
At house after house, I was told, “No one by that name lived here then.” and “That’s my brother’s name, but he says that he didn’t leave any comment.”
Monday 23 October 2017
...apparently in the hopes of burying media backlash in the hustle and bustle of holiday preparation.
Tuesday 17 October 2017
Hypocrisy on the e-mail issue has been a hallmark of the Trump White House.
Friday 13 October 2017
"The president may decide he can walk away from his oath of office, but the FCC commissioners have also sworn to uphold the Constitution. Despite this, they are AWOL. Why the silence from the Republicans at the FCC?"
Thursday 12 October 2017
But it took only one computer plugged into both the internet and the intranet for the North Koreans to break in
Wednesday 11 October 2017
...the program searched for terms as broad as “top secret,” which may be written on classified government documents, as well as the classified code names of U.S. government programs
Friday 6 October 2017
It's a hell of a time in America when a video game taking an anti-Nazi stance is considered by some to be too controversial. Yet here we are.
Thursday 5 October 2017
The discovery raises concerns that hackers or foreign governments may have had access to data on Kelly’s phone while he was secretary of Homeland Security and after he joined the West Wing.
Russian hackers obtained classified documents that a National Security Agency employee had taken and stored on his home computer.
Monday 2 October 2017
The Russian review of ArcSight’s source code, the closely guarded internal instructions of the software, was part of HPE’s effort to win the certification required to sell the product to Russia’s public sector
Thursday 28 September 2017
Wednesday 27 September 2017
The new policy ... covers immigrants who have obtained a green card and even naturalized citizens
Monday 25 September 2017
The Russian campaign — taking advantage of Facebook’s ability to send contrary messages to different groups of users based on their political and demographic characteristics — also sought to sow discord among religious groups.
Monday 11 September 2017
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed ... that the social-media giant “shut down several promoted events as part of the takedown we described last week.”
Wednesday 30 August 2017
The overwhelming majority of people who wrote unique comments to the Federal Communications Commission want the FCC to keep its current net neutrality rules and classification of ISPs as common carriers
Tuesday 29 August 2017
The nonprofit group Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law requested the site be taken down, pointing to a clause in Network Solutions' policies that disallows sites on their domains "to display bigotry, discrimination or hatred."
Saturday 26 August 2017
...they cited both specific shortfalls in the administration’s approach to cybersecurity, and broader concerns that Trump and his administration have undermined the “moral infrastructure” of the U.S.
Thursday 24 August 2017
...despite arguments that doing so would impinge on their First Amendment rights and stifle online political discourse.
Monday 7 August 2017
On Sunday, Twitter suspended the Mincey account, known as @ProTrump45, after several other users revealed that it was probably a fake, created to amplify pro-Trump content.
Russian-linked bots and trolls have caused a surge in use of the hashtag #ResignPaulRyan on Twitter over the last 48 hours
Sunday 30 July 2017
Though the device was supposedly wiped before it was sold by the government at auction, the hackers were able to uncover the results the machine tallied in 2002.
Sunday 9 July 2017
Thursday 6 July 2017
Since May, hackers have been penetrating the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities
Monday 19 June 2017
The data offered a strikingly complete picture of the voting histories and political leanings of the American electorate laid out on an easily downloadable format
Thursday 18 May 2017
The FCC's action Thursday doesn't repeal the rules yet but instead launches a lengthy proceeding that will pit ISPs and conservative groups, which back Pai's efforts, against left-leaning digital activists and leading tech companies
Monday 15 May 2017
...new digital clues point to North Korean-linked hackers as likely suspects in the sweeping ransomware attacks
Friday 12 May 2017
Thursday 11 May 2017
“It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, ‘What system are you going to be—‘ ‘Sir, we’re staying with digital.’ I said, ‘No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.’”
Wednesday 26 April 2017
While major telecom companies are looking forward to Pai’s FCC makeover, the same can’t be said for everyone else in tech.
Thursday 20 April 2017
There is no team, there is no plan, and there is no clear answer from the White House on who would even be working on what.
Wednesday 19 April 2017
The rollback will empower big telecom and media firms that have lobbied aggressively for deregulation
Wednesday 12 April 2017
“The internet industry is uniform in its belief that net neutrality preserves the consumer experience, competition and innovation online”
Thursday 6 April 2017
While FCC boss Ajit Pai has repeatedly claimed his top priority while running the FCC is eliminating the digital divide, his behavior in just the first few months of his term has made that claim utterly and indisuptably laughable.
Monday 3 April 2017
President Trump signed a resolution today reversing an Obama-era rule that restricted what internet providers could do with their customers’ data.
Thursday 30 March 2017
Then there’s the question of how those who donated to these crowdfunding campaigns plan to buy the Web browsing histories of members of Congress. It would be extremely difficult, if not impossible.
Wednesday 29 March 2017
Privacy advocates, consumer groups and the tech community are all attacking the decision. It was quickly panned by both the editorial board of The New York Times and by commenters on conservative media outlet Breitbart News.
So here is a list of the lawmakers who voted to betray you, and how much money they received from the telecom industry in their most recent election cycle.
Thursday 23 March 2017
If the House and Trump agree with the Senate's action, ISPs won't have to seek customer approval before sharing their browsing histories and other private information with advertisers.
Friday 17 March 2017
The officials said the laptop, which was highly encrypted and contained floor plans and evacuation protocol for Trump Tower, cannot be traced or erased by officials remotely
Wednesday 8 March 2017
“There is no such thing as absolute privacy in America,” Comey said, because “there is no place in America outside of judicial reach.”
Thursday 2 March 2017
Cybersecurity experts say the emails raise concerns about whether such sensitive information was adequately protected from hackers ... In fact, Pence's personal account was hacked last summer.
Wednesday 1 March 2017
Internet providers ... don’t like that they’ll soon have to ask permission to share your web browsing habits. And with today’s action, it seems that they’re likely to get their wish.
Monday 20 February 2017
Sen. Wyden said the search of smartphones at the US border circumvents the Fourth Amendment.
Thursday 9 February 2017
“numerous senior GOP operatives and several members of the Trump administration” have downloaded Confide, which automatically wipes messages after they’re read.
The chief information security officer for the White House's Executive Office of the President has been removed from his position, sources have confirmed.
Sunday 5 February 2017
“The public wants an F.C.C. that helps people. Instead, it got one that does favors for the powerful corporations that its chairman used to work for.”
Tuesday 31 January 2017
It was an abrupt about face after the White House spent all day Tuesday plugging its plans to boost the nation's offensive and defensive cyber capabilities.
Thursday 26 January 2017
It's also a pretty shitty password.
Wednesday 25 January 2017
This is the same RNC email server that mysteriously disappeared 22 million messages during George W Bush's administration
Trump did have kind words for the security of the White House phones, saying “words just explode in the air.”
Monday 23 January 2017
As a regulator, he voted reliably against many policy proposals by former Democratic Chairman Tom Wheeler, including the contentious and high-profile move to establish so-called net neutrality rules.