NEW: The FBI is investigating NYC mayor Eric Adams’s use of a private e-mail server and how records from seven different trips he made to China have disappeared, per the NY Post
Both the FBI and Manhattan federal prosecutors have flagged at least one trip taken by Adams that was partly funded by the Chinese Communist Party when he headed the Brooklyn Borough President's...
Hackers who stole Ticketmaster data from Snowflake account appear to have accessed data through contractor named EPAM Systems. EPAM has workers in Belarus, Ukraine and, before war, Russia. Hacker told me they breached EPAM worker in Ukraine and found plaintext credentials on his machine. My latest:
A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster’s Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-party contractor.
How researchers hacked time to crack 11-yr-old password protecting $3 mil in cryptocurrency. Using flaw in RoboForm's password manager they tricked RoboForm into spitting out same passwords it generated in 2013. Any RoboForm passwords generated before 2015 and still in use can be cracked same way
Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.
Really good piece that attempts to rein in the hype around disinformation and expose the harms it does -- all the more significant because @olgs7.bsky.social teaches a course on disinformation and used to manage Meta teams responsible for tackling foreign disinformation and influence campaigns
Frm @ridt.bsky.social @gavinwilde.bsky.social and @leefosterintel.bsky.social in @foreignaffairs.bsky.social: when we exaggerate the efficacy and impact of foreign influence ops, the ones who benefit the most are the very threat actors that are behind these ops www.foreignaffairs.com/russian-fede...
Underplaying the risk helps foreign propagandists—but so does exaggerating it.
This matter is absolutely bonkers and it is a Huge Deal:
I wrote about Nevada attorney general's attempt to bar Meta from encrypting communications of minors in Nevada. I've included links to court brief filed by Nevada and Meta's response. Riana Pfefferkorn calls it the biggest attack on encryption since the 2016 San Bernardino case. Court hearing is Mon
Nevada's attorney general filed a motion this week to prevent Meta from providing end-to-end encryption to users under eighteen who reside in his state. The request is intended to combat predators wh...
How to counter disinformation, based on science: Jon Bateman and Dean Jackson produced a must-read report for the Carnegie Endowment that looks at ten interventions against disinformation. www.techpolicy.press/how-to-count...
Jon Bateman and Dean Jackson produced a report for the Carnegie Endowment that looks at ten interventions against disinformation.
I wrote about Nevada attorney general's attempt to bar Meta from encrypting communications of minors in Nevada. I've included links to court brief filed by Nevada and Meta's response. Riana Pfefferkorn calls it the biggest attack on encryption since the 2016 San Bernardino case. Court hearing is Mon
Nevada's attorney general filed a motion this week to prevent Meta from providing end-to-end encryption to users under eighteen who reside in his state. The request is intended to combat predators wh...
Nevada's attorney general filed for a restraining order and prelim injunction against Meta this week to prevent it from pushing out end-to-end encryption as default on Messenger for users in Nevada who are under 18. Hearing is Monday morning. Court brief is here: drive.google.com/file/d/1qq9Z...
Why did BlueSky just mess with my interface? I liked it the way it was
Tim Burke was indicted today for leaking unaired Tucker Carlson video clips to media outlets. I wrote about his case last year. You can read the details here: www.zetter-zeroday.com/did-a-journa...