‘Leftists for Bibi’? Deepfake pro-Netanyahu propaganda exposed

According to a series of Facebook posts, the Israeli prime minister is winning over left-wing followers — except that none of the people in question exist.

Sharon Epstein used to be a left winger. She believed in peace and giving back the occupied territories to the Palestinians. But then the anti-Netanyahu protests began and something changed. Fed up with the alleged incitement against the prime minister, Sharon Epstein became, in her own words, a “Bibi-ist” — a supporter of Benjamin Netanyahu.

Epstein, whose Facebook profile picture showed a young woman with brown hair and blue eyes, shared her transition from leftist to Netanyahu supporter on a Facebook page called “Zionist Spring.” Except that the story was missing one crucial detail: Sharon Epstein does not exist. Rather, she was a fictional character created as part of a political campaign.

There are several Sharon Epsteins in Israel, but none of them are the “Sharon Epstein” who shared a story of political transformation on Facebook. The profile picture used was generated by computer software using technology known as “human image synthesis” — which processes photos of real people to create a composite image of someone who doesn’t exist, but which is deceptively realistic.

This technique, which helps manufacturers of fake news add credibility to their stories, has become increasingly popular in recent years, and is part of the world of high-tech fabrication whose products are known as “deepfakes.” Recently, a string of stories in right-wing media outlets, purportedly written by geopolitical experts opining on subjects ranging from Iran’s malign regional influence to Dubai’s stability, was found to have been the work of such made-up people — with accompanying fake profile pictures.

The “Zionist Spring” Facebook page took a more basic approach: rather than creating a new picture for “Sharon Epstein,” the page administrators simply used the first photo that appears in the Wikipedia entry on human image synthesis, which is provided as an example of the technology. The description of the photo states that it is from a website called “This Person Does Not Exist.”

👀 👉🏼 https://www.972mag.com/leftists-for-bibi-deepfake-pro-netanyahu-propaganda-exposed/

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Hacker attack on German Federal Transport Service - Captured addresses of members of parliament?

According to media reports, there has been a successful cyber attack on the transport service of the German Bundestag. Sensitive data of federal politicians and military personnel could have fallen into the hands of previously unknown hackers.

The cyber criminals have attacked the computer center of BwFuhrparkServive GmBH, according to a report in the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag". The company, 75.1 percent of which belongs to the Ministry of Defense and 24.9 percent to Deutsche Bahn, will take over the transport service of the German Bundestag. In 2019 there were 142,000 chauffeur rides for the members of parliament.

According to the newspaper "Bild am Sonntag", the Bundeswehr company had to admit to the parliament on Friday that a successful hacker attack had been detected. The attackers could have thus captured sensitive data such as private home addresses of members of parliament. When a member of parliament books a ride, the dispatching system stores passenger names, time of departure, start and destination, and additional requirements such as a child seat.

Attacker not known

The German Bundestag administration informed the parliamentary groups in a letter on Saturday noon. The letter states: "The attacker and the concrete targets of his attack are not known. It is currently not known when a first compromise of the data centers took place, whether data was manipulated or whether data was leaked".

👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/da-tut-sich-eine-sicherheitsluecke-auf-adressen-von-abgeordneten-erbeutet-hackerangriff-auf-fahrdienst-des-bundestags_id_12323355.html

👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/hacker-bundeswehr-fuhrpark-1.4999944

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Trump: ‘A lot of people’ think Edward Snowden ‘not being treated fairly’

President Trump polled his aides on Thursday about whether he should let anti-surveillance whistleblower and leaker Edward Snowden return to the US from Russia without going to prison, saying he was open to it.

“There are a lot of people that think that he is not being treated fairly. I mean, I hear that,” Trump told The Post in an exclusive interview in the Oval Office, before soliciting views from his staff.

Trump commented on Snowden for the first time as president after accusing former President Barack Obama of spying on his 2016 campaign.

“When you look at [former FBI Director James] Comey and [former FBI Deputy Director Andrew] McCabe, and [former CIA Director John] Brennan — and, excuse me, the man that sat at this desk, President Obama, got caught spying on my campaign with Biden. Biden and Obama, and they got caught spying on the campaign,” Trump said.

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👀 👉🏼 https://nypost.com/2020/08/13/trump-a-lot-of-people-think-edward-snowden-not-being-treated-fairly/

👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://www.golem.de/news/whistleblower-trump-will-snowdens-begnadigung-pruefen-2008-150284.html

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Edward Snowden - Permanent Record (repost)

In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.

👉🏼 🎧 #PermanentRecord #Snowden #podcast #audiobook

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Torum is Shutting Down

I am retiring. I ran Torum for over 3 years, the truth is i lost the passion for hosting Torum a long time ago but kept
it online for the community. Torum has always been a non-profit project for me, even to the extent of rejecting donations.
We grew to be a strong community of over 130,000 members. Compared to how some other projects conclude, hosting for over 3 years and wrapping up on my own terms is what i would consider to be a success.

Is it possible Torum returns in the future? Maybe. But i'm taking a break from the darkweb for a while, so even if
Torum did possibly return it wouldn't be anytime soon. Is it possible i give Torum away to someone i think is capable of
hosting it and they relaunch it? Who knows. Maybe that could work, but again, i'm not rushing into anything.
What i can say is Torum is gone for the foreseeable future, potentially permanantely.

Thank you to everyone that contributed to the growth of Torum. Thank you to all Torum moderators, past and present, without you Torum would have been a spammed out mess. To all the people that tried to take Torum down over the last 3 years, i hold no grudges. I wish a prosperous future to everyone.

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Trump may exert pressure on other Chinese firms like Alibaba after TikTok ban

US ordered its Chinese owner ByteDance on Friday to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok within 90 days, the latest effort to ramp up pressure over concerns about the safety of the personal data it handles.

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he could exert pressure on more Chinese companies such as technology giant Alibaba after he moved to ban TikTok.

Asked at a news conference whether there were other particular China-owned companies he was considering a ban on, such as Alibaba, Trump replied: "Well, we're looking at other things, yes."

Trump has been piling pressure on Chinese-owned companies, such as by vowing to ban short-video app TikTok from the United States. The United States ordered its Chinese owner ByteDance on Friday to divest the U.S. operations of TikTok within 90 days, the latest effort to ramp up pressure over concerns about the safety of the personal data it handles.

Trump, who has made changing the US-China trade relationship a central theme of his presidency, has been sharply critical of China while also praising its purchases of agriculture products such as soybeans and corn as part of a trade agreement reached late last year.

👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://www.businesstoday.in/current/world/trump-may-exert-pressure-on-other-chinese-firms-like-alibaba-after-tiktok-ban/story/413099.html

👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://t3n.de/news/trump-verbot-tiktok-alibaba-1312124

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Feds: NJ Man Attempted to Hire a Hitman on the Darkweb

In a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey, prosecutors accused John Michael Musbach, 31, of hiring a hitman in an attempt to kill one of his teenage victims. According to the statement, Musbach found and contacted a site advertising murder for hire on the darkweb. He paid the site administrator $40,000 in Bitcoin to carry out the hit.

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The AnglerPhish Podcast - Exposing State Treasury Offices Unclaimed Property Vulnerability (Episode 1)

State Treasury Offices hold around $50 Billion Dollars in Unclaimed Property. It is held until the rightful owners come to collect it. The problem is most of the time the rightful owners are unaware they have any unclaimed assets. Of course, there is another problem: The security around this unclaimed property is virtually non-existent. Meaning? All that money is easy taking for a variety of criminals. Learn How in this episode and also learn how easily Governments could protect themselves.

🎧 👉🏼 The #AnglerPhish #truecrime #podcast (Episode 1)

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Apple escalates the Fortnite conflict and throws Epic out completely

Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store and has informed Epic that on Friday, August 28 Apple will terminate all our developer accounts and cut Epic off from iOS and Mac development tools. We are asking the court to stop this retaliation.

👀 👉🏼 https://twitter.com/EpicNewsroom/status/1295430127455596544

👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://t3n.de/news/apple-eskaliert-fortnite-konflikt-1312457/

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Tutanota - We are under another DoS attack and working on mitigating this already. We apologize for this inconvenience.

👀 👉🏼 https://twitter.com/TutanotaTeam/status/1295456582956994567

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Google giving far-right users' data to law enforcement, documents reveal

Exclusive: in some cases Google did not necessarily ban users who were often threatening violence or expressing extremist views.

A little-known investigative unit inside search giant Google regularly forwarded detailed personal information on the company’s users to members of a counter-terrorist fusion center in California’s Bay Area, according to leaked documents reviewed by the Guardian.

But checking the documents against Google’s platforms reveals that in some cases Google did not necessarily ban the users they reported to the authorities, and some still have accounts on YouTube, Gmail and other services.

The users were often threatening violence or otherwise expressing extremist views, often associated with the far right.

The documents come from the so-called “Blueleaks” trove, which hackers acquired from the servers of a hosting company in Texas which had been used by several law enforcement agencies. It contains hundreds of thousands of documents from more than 200 agencies, dated between 1996 and June 2020.

👀 👉🏼 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/17/google-giving-user-data-authorities-documents-reveal

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ByteDance - TikTok failed to bar users it suspected to be under 13

TikTok says it is for users 13 years and older. But insiders report, the video-sharing-app instructed content moderators not to block children on the platform. Conspicuous videos were escalated to a team in Beijing instead.

According to TikTok’s own rules, users must be at least 13 years old to create an account in the video sharing app. But many children and teenagers don’t care. The app asks for the date of birth, but TikTok does not check whether users are telling the truth.

Internally, TikTok has been aware of the problem for a long time. Not long ago, TikTok and its predecessor musical.ly were mainly populated tby kids; hardly anyone over 14 used the app.

To counter the problem, TikTok has developed an internal system called „user rate“. Content moderators were instructed to classify users into different age groups based to their appearance. This was confirmed to netzpolitik.org by two independent sources with insight into TikTok’s internal moderation practices in Europe. The policy was in place at least until the end of 2019.

Children were not blocked

Remarkable: The accounts of users assumed to be younger than 13 years old were not automatically blocked or suspended. Rather, their videos were restricted in range.

This contradicts TikTok’s rules and the company’s parental guidance. The latter states: „If your teen is under 13 years old and has registered for a TikTok account from 13 years old, you can notify us at privacy@tiktok.com. We will then take appropriate action.“

It is also a violation of European Union data protection laws. According to the General Data Protection Regulation, children and teens under the age of 16 need their parents‘ consent if they want to use apps such as TikTok, Facebook or Instagram. This consent must be given in writing in advance.

👀 👉🏼 🇬🇧 https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bytedance-tiktok-failed-to-bar-users-it-suspected-to-be-under-13/

👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://netzpolitik.org/2020/bytedance-tiktok-hat-kinder-nicht-gesperrt/

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The Last Sunny Corner of the Internet? - Setting the Record Straight

The USA accuses Tiktok of lacking data security. With a new platform, Tiktok wants to set things right and win back trust.

While US President Donald Trump criticizes Tiktok's alleged lack of security, the Chinese company is publishing its own website with information on the subject. "In view of the rumours and misinformation about Tiktok that are spreading in Washington and in the media, we should set things right," writes Tiktok there.

👀 👉🏼 https://www.tiktokus.info/

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Report: Trump campaign’s Russia contacts a ‘grave’ threat

The Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a “grave” counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday as it detailed in a report how associates of the Republican candidate had regular contact with Russians and expected to benefit from the Kremlin’s help.

The report, the fifth and final one from the Republican-led Senate intelligence committee on the Russia investigation, describes how Russia launched an aggressive, wide-ranging effort to interfere in the election on Donald Trump’s behalf. It says Trump associates were eager to exploit the Kremlin’s aid, particularly by maximizing the impact of the disclosure of Democratic emails that were hacked by Russian military intelligence officers.

The conclusions mark the culmination of a bipartisan probe that spanned more than three years and produced what the committee called “the most comprehensive description to date of Russia’s activities and the threat they posed.”

The findings echo to a large degree those of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, with the report’s unflinching characterization of furtive interactions between Trump associates and Russian operatives contradicting the Republican president’s claims that the FBI had no basis to investigate whether his campaign was conspiring with Russia.

The report was released as two other Senate committees, the Judiciary and Homeland Security panels, conduct their own reviews of the Russia probe with an eye toward uncovering what they say was FBI misconduct during the early days of the investigation. A prosecutor appointed by Attorney General William Barr, who regards the Russia investigation with skepticism, disclosed his first criminal charge on Friday against a former FBI lawyer who plans to plead guilty to altering a government email.

Among the more striking sections of the nearly 1,000-page report issued Tuesday is the committee’s description of the close professional relationship between former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik, whom the committee describes without equivocation as a Russian intelligence officer.

“Taken as a whole, Manafort’s high-level access and willingness to share information with individuals closely affiliated with the Russian intelligence services, particularly Kilimnik, represented a grave counterintelligence threat,” the report says.

The report notes how Manafort shared internal Trump campaign polling data with Kilimnik and says there is “some evidence” that Kilimnik may have been connected to the Kremlin’s operation to hack and leak Democratic emails, though it does not describe that evidence. In addition, the report says that “two pieces of information” raise the possibility of Manafort’s potential connection to those operations, but what follows next in the document is blacked out.

Both men were charged in Mueller’s investigation, but neither was accused of any tie to the hacking.

👀 👉🏼 https://apnews.com/5e833a62e9492f6a66624b7920cc846a

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Biohackers | First Original Series stored in DNA

DNA storage offers a lot of capacity and longevity. Netflix takes advantage of this and also shows how DNA storage works.

For the Biohackers series, Netflix had the first episode of the new series saved in DNA as a themed advertisement and sent 200 copies of it to fans and interested parties.

📺 👉🏼 https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=DMYgjOHgHxc

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Dreamers Dilemma

Enter the realm of dreams in virtual reality, where one person's dream can be shared and experienced by many with the help of technology. But when trailblazing a new virtual frontier, sometimes the dream of succeeding is what's most real.

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Oculus - #why

Today, we’re announcing some important updates to how people log into Oculus devices, while still keeping their VR profile. Starting in October 2020, everyone using an Oculus device for the first time will need to log in with a Facebook account.

👀 👉🏼 https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-and-unlock-social-features

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Kim Dotcom Predicts NZ Supreme Court Will Rule in Favor of Extradition

Kim Dotcom is predicting that the New Zealand Supreme Court will decide in favor of extraditing him to the United States. The Megaupload founder says that he has faith in at least one judge on the panel, claiming that she knows the "U.S. govt is a rogue operator" and "knows what her fellow Judges are doing and why."

The now-infamous Megaupload case has been treading a tortuous legal path for more than eight years in New Zealand.

The United States Government wants Kim Dotcom, Mathias Ortmann, Bram van der Kolk, and Finn Batato, physically delivered as quickly as possible, to face what has been billed as the largest copyright infringement lawsuit of all time.

After several lower courts determined that the Megaupload defendants should indeed be extradited to the United States, in June 2019 the New Zealand Supreme Court heard the hugely controversial matter. The ‘Megaupload Four’ are hoping that the country’s highest court will see things differently and deny the United States an opportunity to try the men on US soil.

When we spoke to the serial entrepreneur last year, Dotcom wasn’t optimistic.

“I expect a 3:2 majority in favor of extradition because three of the five judges were appointed by the National Party and the former Attorney General who was responsible for the actions taken against me in New Zealand. This is a political case and it will most likely be a political judgment,” he said.

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The AnglerPhish Podcast - Hackers in Hoodies? Demystifying the Cybercriminal (Episode 2)

There is a difference between a cybercriminal and a "Hacker" even though the media and many security companies would have you think otherwise. We sit down with real world hacker, Chris Roberts to discuss those differences.

🎧 👉🏼 The #AnglerPhish #truecrime #podcast (Episode 2)

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Renowned Costa Rican doctor accused in the U.S. for selling drugs on the “darknet”

The US accuses Costa Rican pharmacist and merchant of shipping restricted narcotics in souvenirs between February 2012 to May 2020; Drug Trafficking Prosecutor's Office in Costa Rica investigated the same facts here but could not prove the crimes.

The United States Department of Justice accused a Costa Rican pharmacist and merchant of allegedly shipping restricted-use narcotics such as morphine, alprazolam and oxycontin, among others, hidden in souvenirs.

The seven-count indictment by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia, charged David Brian Pate, 44, a U.S. and Costa Rican citizen, and Jose Luis Fung Hou, 38, a Costa Rican citizen, with counts of conspiring with persons to distribute controlled substances, distribution of controlled substances, conspiring with persons to import controlled substances, conspiring to launder money, and laundering of monetary instruments.

👀 👉🏼 PDF: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1301171/download

👀 👉🏼 https://qcostarica.com/renowned-costa-rican-doctor-accused-in-the-u-s-for-selling-drugs-on-the-darknet/

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REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

UNITED STATES SENATE ON RUSSIAN ACTIVE MEASURES CAMPAIGNS AND INTERFERENCE IN THE 2016 U.S. ELECTION

VOLUME 5: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE THREATS AND VULNERABILITIES

👀 👉🏼 PDF (966 pages): https://kryptosjournal.com/uploads/1/3/2/3/132343488/472862136-senate-intel-report-volume5.pdf

👀 👉🏼 https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/512526-manafort-shared-campaign-info-with-russian-intelligence-officer

👀 👉🏼 Report: Trump campaign’s Russia contacts a ‘grave’ threat
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#usa #russia #hacking #hacker #hacked #ToddlerTrump #elections #counterintelligence #pdf #thinkabout
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