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A Former Twitter Employee Told Us How a Contractor Could Take Down Trump’s Account

November 3, 2017 admin Account, customer service, National security, president trump, realdonaldtrump, social media, tech companies, Twitter

Credit to Author: Sarah Emerson| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 18:04:03 +0000

A Twitter contractor briefly disabled the president’s account, revealing new concerns about social media’s role in national security.

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After AlphaBay’s Demise, Customers Flocked to Dark Market Run by Dutch Police

July 20, 2017 admin Alexandre Cazes, AlphaBay, Andrew McCabe, bitcoin, dark market, Europol, Hansa Market, jeff sessions, Other, president trump, Rob Wainwright, Silk Road

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:23:23 +0000

Earlier this month, news broke that authorities had seized the Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay, an online black market that peddled everything from heroin to stolen identity and credit card data. But it wasn’t until today, when the U.S. Justice Department held a press conference to detail the AlphaBay takedown that the other shoe dropped: Police in The Netherlands for the past month have been operating Hansa Market, a competing Dark Web bazaar that enjoyed a massive influx of new customers immediately after the AlphaBay takedown.

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ShadowBrokers fails to collect 1M bitcoins – releases stolen information

April 10, 2017 admin cybercrime, Equation Group, Exploits, hack, hacking, NSA, opsec, president trump, ShadowBrokers

Credit to Author: Adam McNeil| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:49:20 +0000

ShadowBrokers finally made good on their promise to release the decryption key to unlock the stolen ‘auction’ file purportedly filled with NSA hacking tools.

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Independent Krebs

Post-FCC Privacy Rules, Should You VPN?

March 30, 2017 admin DNS leak, eff, Electronic Frontier Foundation, IPv6 leak, Other, president trump, searchinternethistory.com, Tor, virtual private network, VPN

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 21:33:48 +0000

Many readers are understandably concerned about recent moves by the U.S. Congress that would roll back privacy rules barring broadband Internet service providers (ISPs) from sharing or selling customer browsing history, among other personal data. Some are concerned enough by this development that they’re looking at obfuscating all of their online browsing by paying for a subscription to a virtual private networking (VPN) service. This piece is intended to serve as a guidepost for those contemplating such a move.

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Encryption Apps Help White House Staffers Leak—and Maybe Break the Law

February 15, 2017 admin chat, confide, encryption, end-to-end encryption, National Affairs, Politics, president trump, Security, White House

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 17:43:57 +0000

An encrypted chat app called Confide has taken over Capitol Hill and the White House, but what will mean for transparency? The post Encryption Apps Help White House Staffers Leak—and Maybe Break the Law appeared first on WIRED.