New GoldenHelper malware found in official Chinese tax software
A new backdoor dubbed GoldenHelper was discovered by Trustwave embedded within Golden Tax Invoicing Software, part of the Chinese government' Golden Tax Project and required for issuing invoices and paying value-add tax (VAT) taxes.
Last month, researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs also found the GoldenSpy backdoor hidden within the Intelligent Tax software which companies were required to install to work with Chinese banks.
The newly spotted GoldenHelper backdoor (named after its main command and control domain tax-helper.ltd) is completely different from GoldenSpy, but it uses a very similar delivery method and it's also used to gain access to the networks of international companies doing business in China.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-goldenhelper-malware-found-in-official-chinese-tax-software/
#asia #china #malware
A new backdoor dubbed GoldenHelper was discovered by Trustwave embedded within Golden Tax Invoicing Software, part of the Chinese government' Golden Tax Project and required for issuing invoices and paying value-add tax (VAT) taxes.
Last month, researchers at Trustwave SpiderLabs also found the GoldenSpy backdoor hidden within the Intelligent Tax software which companies were required to install to work with Chinese banks.
The newly spotted GoldenHelper backdoor (named after its main command and control domain tax-helper.ltd) is completely different from GoldenSpy, but it uses a very similar delivery method and it's also used to gain access to the networks of international companies doing business in China.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-goldenhelper-malware-found-in-official-chinese-tax-software/
#asia #china #malware
Chinese student studying in Australia was targeted by the CCP after speaking out
Even her family have been questioned by police over her criticism of the party.
China is often known for stifling free speech and preventing its citizens from expressing criticism against the country’s government online. Suppressing the opinions of its citizens doesn’t seem enough to satisfy the Chinese government, as it is now keen on making people with Chinese ethnicity living elsewhere in the world from expressing critical opinions about the country and its governance.
How is China achieving this herculean task? It is just mimicking an age-old, ancient idea known as “zhulian” that can be best defined as “implication” or “guilt by association.” Simply put, the police in China end up threatening the family members for the actions performed by their relatives living in foreign nations.
https://reclaimthenet.org/chinese-student-studying-in-australia-was-targeted-by-the-ccp/
#asia #china #wechat #surveillance #freespeech
Even her family have been questioned by police over her criticism of the party.
China is often known for stifling free speech and preventing its citizens from expressing criticism against the country’s government online. Suppressing the opinions of its citizens doesn’t seem enough to satisfy the Chinese government, as it is now keen on making people with Chinese ethnicity living elsewhere in the world from expressing critical opinions about the country and its governance.
How is China achieving this herculean task? It is just mimicking an age-old, ancient idea known as “zhulian” that can be best defined as “implication” or “guilt by association.” Simply put, the police in China end up threatening the family members for the actions performed by their relatives living in foreign nations.
https://reclaimthenet.org/chinese-student-studying-in-australia-was-targeted-by-the-ccp/
#asia #china #wechat #surveillance #freespeech
Reclaim The Net
Chinese student studying in Australia was targeted by the CCP after speaking out
Even her family have been questioned by police over her criticism of the party.
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DDoSecrets Announcement About This Folder
With the Justice Department's superseding indictment against Assange, public access to the evidence becomes critical. The documents in this file illuminate that case and illustrate how WikiLeaks operates behind closed doors. AssangeLeaks is not for or against Julian Assange or WikiLeaks, and is only interested in the evidence.
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DDoSecrets Announcement About This Folder
With the Justice Department's superseding indictment against Assange, public access to the evidence becomes critical. The documents in this file illuminate that case and illustrate how WikiLeaks operates behind closed doors. AssangeLeaks is not for or against Julian Assange or WikiLeaks, and is only interested in the evidence.
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Google faces lawsuit over tracking in apps even when users opted out
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action status alleged on Tuesday.
The data privacy lawsuit is the second filed in as many months against Google by the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner on behalf a handful of individual consumers. The firm’s clients also have included Google competitors such as Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Oracle Corp (ORCL.N).
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the filing.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit/google-faces-lawsuit-over-tracking-in-apps-even-when-users-opted-out-idUSKCN24F2N4
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8523193/WhatsApp-experiences-global-outage-leaves-thousands-users-unable-chat-friends.html
#google #privacy
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google records what people are doing on hundreds of thousands of mobile apps even when they follow the company’s recommended settings for stopping such monitoring, a lawsuit seeking class action status alleged on Tuesday.
The data privacy lawsuit is the second filed in as many months against Google by the law firm Boies Schiller Flexner on behalf a handful of individual consumers. The firm’s clients also have included Google competitors such as Facebook Inc (FB.O) and Oracle Corp (ORCL.N).
Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the filing.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-privacy-lawsuit/google-faces-lawsuit-over-tracking-in-apps-even-when-users-opted-out-idUSKCN24F2N4
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8523193/WhatsApp-experiences-global-outage-leaves-thousands-users-unable-chat-friends.html
#google #privacy
TikTok fined in S. Korea over privacy issue
SEOUL, July 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's telecommunications regulator said Wednesday it fined video sharing platform TikTok Pte Ltd. 186 million won (US$155,000) for mishandling user data amid growing global privacy concerns of the social media service.
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said the social media app popular among teenagers violated local telecommunication laws by collecting data of children under the age of 14 without parental consent, and did not properly notify users of its overseas transfer of personal data.
https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200715004600320
#southkorea #tiktok #privacy
SEOUL, July 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's telecommunications regulator said Wednesday it fined video sharing platform TikTok Pte Ltd. 186 million won (US$155,000) for mishandling user data amid growing global privacy concerns of the social media service.
The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said the social media app popular among teenagers violated local telecommunication laws by collecting data of children under the age of 14 without parental consent, and did not properly notify users of its overseas transfer of personal data.
https://m-en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200715004600320
#southkorea #tiktok #privacy
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TikTok fined in S. Korea over privacy issue | Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, July 15 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's telecommunications regulator said Wednesday ...
Amazon's smart shopping cart knows what you're buying
In its bid to further automate grocery shopping, Amazon today unveiled a smart shopping cart that can automatically detect products placed inside it and let customers pay for shopping without visiting a cashier. The “Dash Cart” — the company calls it — looks like any other grocery cart, but uses a mix of cameras, sensors and a built-in scale to work out a person’s purchases and then deducts the total amount from the card associated with their Amazon account.
The process might sound familiar, especially considering Amazon has opened a number of automated Go stores over the past year. However, the Dash Cart relies on its own smarts rather than an array of wall-mounted cameras. It will be deployed at one of Amazon’s first true grocery stores — which means it won’t be Whole Foods or Go store — in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles later this year.
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-dash-cart-smart-sensor-camera-shopping-080416665.html
#amazon
In its bid to further automate grocery shopping, Amazon today unveiled a smart shopping cart that can automatically detect products placed inside it and let customers pay for shopping without visiting a cashier. The “Dash Cart” — the company calls it — looks like any other grocery cart, but uses a mix of cameras, sensors and a built-in scale to work out a person’s purchases and then deducts the total amount from the card associated with their Amazon account.
The process might sound familiar, especially considering Amazon has opened a number of automated Go stores over the past year. However, the Dash Cart relies on its own smarts rather than an array of wall-mounted cameras. It will be deployed at one of Amazon’s first true grocery stores — which means it won’t be Whole Foods or Go store — in the Woodland Hills area of Los Angeles later this year.
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-dash-cart-smart-sensor-camera-shopping-080416665.html
#amazon
Google Gets Record Belgian Privacy Fine Over ‘Right to Be Forgotten’
Google was fined a record 600,000 euros ($681,400) by Belgium’s data protection authority for failing to delete links regulators deemed harmful to a person’s reputation under the European Union’s right to be forgotten.
Google was “grossly negligent” by refusing to remove the links to news articles that the authority said involved unproven harassment incidents more than 10 years ago, according to an emailed statement on Tuesday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-14/google-gets-belgian-privacy-fine-over-right-to-be-forgotten
#belgium #google
Google was fined a record 600,000 euros ($681,400) by Belgium’s data protection authority for failing to delete links regulators deemed harmful to a person’s reputation under the European Union’s right to be forgotten.
Google was “grossly negligent” by refusing to remove the links to news articles that the authority said involved unproven harassment incidents more than 10 years ago, according to an emailed statement on Tuesday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-14/google-gets-belgian-privacy-fine-over-right-to-be-forgotten
#belgium #google
UK selling spyware and wiretaps to 17 repressive regimes including Saudi Arabia and China
The British government is providing more than a dozen repressive regimes around the world with wiretaps, spyware and other telecommunications interception equipment they could use to spy on dissidents, public records show.
Despite rules saying the UK should not export security goods to countries that might use them for internal repression, ministers have signed off more than £75m in such exports over the past five years to states rated “not free” by the NGO Freedom House.
The 17 countries include China, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, as well as the United Arab Emirates, which was the biggest recipient of licences totalling £11.5m alone since 2015.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-spyware-wiretaps-saudi-arabia-china-bahrain-uae-human-rights-a9613206.html
#uk #surveillance #spyware
The British government is providing more than a dozen repressive regimes around the world with wiretaps, spyware and other telecommunications interception equipment they could use to spy on dissidents, public records show.
Despite rules saying the UK should not export security goods to countries that might use them for internal repression, ministers have signed off more than £75m in such exports over the past five years to states rated “not free” by the NGO Freedom House.
The 17 countries include China, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, as well as the United Arab Emirates, which was the biggest recipient of licences totalling £11.5m alone since 2015.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-spyware-wiretaps-saudi-arabia-china-bahrain-uae-human-rights-a9613206.html
#uk #surveillance #spyware
You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot
The only winning move is... not to play?
Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate its customer-service phone calls and chatbot conversations.
“Verizon customers in search of support may soon find a more natural and streamlined digital experience, thanks to a new collaboration with Google Cloud,” the US telecoms giant gushed on Monday.
“What they won’t see behind this experience is the conversational artificial intelligence that can help customer care agents respond to customer queries, as well as assist consumers directly.”
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/13/if_customer_service_for_verizon/
#verizon #google #ai
The only winning move is... not to play?
Verizon has turned to Google Cloud’s Contact Center AI to automate its customer-service phone calls and chatbot conversations.
“Verizon customers in search of support may soon find a more natural and streamlined digital experience, thanks to a new collaboration with Google Cloud,” the US telecoms giant gushed on Monday.
“What they won’t see behind this experience is the conversational artificial intelligence that can help customer care agents respond to customer queries, as well as assist consumers directly.”
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/13/if_customer_service_for_verizon/
#verizon #google #ai
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Google sued for 'blatant lies' about user privacy
A new suit alleges that Android and potentially iOS users are secretly having their personal data harvested by "voyeur extraordinare" Google, even if they are not using Google's own apps.
In its second suit against Google in as many months, law firm Boies Schiller Flexner is accusing the search giant of illicitly gathering user data from mobile users. Where the previous suit was specifically regarding the use of Google Chrome, this one concerns the use of many apps on the Android platform — and potentially on iOS, too.
"Google is always watching," the suit, seen by Law360, says. "Even when it promises to look away, Google is watching. Every click, every website, every app — our entire virtual lives. Intercepted. Tracked. Logged. Compiled. Packaged. Sold for profit."
As the suit notes, Google has an optional setting to prevent tracking of "web & app activity," but it alleges that this and other reassurances about privacy are "blatant lies."
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A new suit alleges that Android and potentially iOS users are secretly having their personal data harvested by "voyeur extraordinare" Google, even if they are not using Google's own apps.
In its second suit against Google in as many months, law firm Boies Schiller Flexner is accusing the search giant of illicitly gathering user data from mobile users. Where the previous suit was specifically regarding the use of Google Chrome, this one concerns the use of many apps on the Android platform — and potentially on iOS, too.
"Google is always watching," the suit, seen by Law360, says. "Even when it promises to look away, Google is watching. Every click, every website, every app — our entire virtual lives. Intercepted. Tracked. Logged. Compiled. Packaged. Sold for profit."
As the suit notes, Google has an optional setting to prevent tracking of "web & app activity," but it alleges that this and other reassurances about privacy are "blatant lies."
👀 👉🏼 https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/15/google-sued-for-blatant-lies-about-user-privacy
👀 👉🏼 https://www.law360.com/articles/1292121/boies-schiller-files-new-privacy-suit-against-voyeur-google
#DeleteGoogle #lies #android #ios #privacy #ourdata #thinkabout
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Google sued for 'blatant lies' about user privacy
A new suit alleges that Android and potentially iOS users are secretly having their personal data harvested by "voyeur extraordinare" Google, even if they are not using Google's own apps.
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Proton VPN is the only best FREE VPN you should use and this is why
Summary :
Pros
1. Open source.
2. Unlimited bandwidth.
3. No log policy
4. Custom DNS servers( windows only)-Set Adblocking DNS servers to block ads at DNS level.
5. Clients for all platforms.
6. Decent speeds.
7. Kill switch.
8. Split Tunneling.( Exclude apps or softwares from VPN)
9. Bypass Blocking.
10. Anonymous.
Cons
1. No torrenting.
2. Doesn't work with Netflix.
Read the full article here 👇
https://www.top10vpn.com/reviews/protonvpn-free/
#vpn #foss
Summary :
Pros
1. Open source.
2. Unlimited bandwidth.
3. No log policy
4. Custom DNS servers( windows only)-Set Adblocking DNS servers to block ads at DNS level.
5. Clients for all platforms.
6. Decent speeds.
7. Kill switch.
8. Split Tunneling.( Exclude apps or softwares from VPN)
9. Bypass Blocking.
10. Anonymous.
Cons
1. No torrenting.
2. Doesn't work with Netflix.
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https://www.top10vpn.com/reviews/protonvpn-free/
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VPN Providers Disable Servers in Hong Kong to Protect Users from China's Security Law
Private Internet Access and TunnelBear fear their VPN servers could be confiscated in the event Chinese authorities use the new law to seize them.
Citing users’ safety, two VPN providers are shutting down their servers in Hong Kong in response to China’s new security law for the city.
Both Private Internet Access and TunnelBear have decided to pull the plug on the Hong Kong-based VPN servers over fears local authorities will try to confiscate them. “China’s new national security law allows law enforcement to seize servers located in Hong Kong without a warrant and otherwise execute warrantless interception of communications,” Private Internet Access wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/vpn-providers-disable-servers-in-hong-kong-to-protect-users-from-chinas
#asia #hongkong #china #vpn
Private Internet Access and TunnelBear fear their VPN servers could be confiscated in the event Chinese authorities use the new law to seize them.
Citing users’ safety, two VPN providers are shutting down their servers in Hong Kong in response to China’s new security law for the city.
Both Private Internet Access and TunnelBear have decided to pull the plug on the Hong Kong-based VPN servers over fears local authorities will try to confiscate them. “China’s new national security law allows law enforcement to seize servers located in Hong Kong without a warrant and otherwise execute warrantless interception of communications,” Private Internet Access wrote in a blog post on Tuesday.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/vpn-providers-disable-servers-in-hong-kong-to-protect-users-from-chinas
#asia #hongkong #china #vpn
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Did you know??
101 VPN products are run by just 23 companies
A shocking research by vpnpro.com reveals the Hidden VPN owners of many VPN products in the market.
This includes both cross-platform and mobile-only VPN products. It also includes direct subsidiaries or products/brands, as well as white label services.
Almost third of the popular mobile-only VPNs are actually Chinese (run by Chinese nationals or actually located in China). This means user data is likely open to Chinese authorities.
To see the full research article , see here 👇
https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-23-companies/
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101 VPN products are run by just 23 companies
A shocking research by vpnpro.com reveals the Hidden VPN owners of many VPN products in the market.
This includes both cross-platform and mobile-only VPN products. It also includes direct subsidiaries or products/brands, as well as white label services.
Almost third of the popular mobile-only VPNs are actually Chinese (run by Chinese nationals or actually located in China). This means user data is likely open to Chinese authorities.
To see the full research article , see here 👇
https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-23-companies/
#vpn
REVEALED: Google is found promoting YouTube videos over competitors like Facebook who host the same content.
🌀 Google was found promoting videos hosted by YouTube over rivals
🌀 A Wall Street Journal investigation shed light on the phenomenon
🌀 YouTube videos often show up despite being less popular
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8523619/Google-promoting-YouTube-videos-competitors-like-Facebook-host-content.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-steers-users-to-youtube-over-rivals-11594745232
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🌀 Google was found promoting videos hosted by YouTube over rivals
🌀 A Wall Street Journal investigation shed light on the phenomenon
🌀 YouTube videos often show up despite being less popular
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8523619/Google-promoting-YouTube-videos-competitors-like-Facebook-host-content.html
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-steers-users-to-youtube-over-rivals-11594745232
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Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile.
Online profiles describe him as a coffee lover and politics junkie who was raised in a traditional Jewish home. His half dozen freelance editorials and blog posts reveal an active interest in anti-Semitism and Jewish affairs, with bylines in the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel.
The catch? Oliver Taylor seems to be an elaborate fiction.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist/deepfake-used-to-attack-activist-couple-shows-new-disinformation-frontier-idUSKCN24G15E
#deepfake
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oliver Taylor, a student at England’s University of Birmingham, is a twenty-something with brown eyes, light stubble, and a slightly stiff smile.
Online profiles describe him as a coffee lover and politics junkie who was raised in a traditional Jewish home. His half dozen freelance editorials and blog posts reveal an active interest in anti-Semitism and Jewish affairs, with bylines in the Jerusalem Post and the Times of Israel.
The catch? Oliver Taylor seems to be an elaborate fiction.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-deepfake-activist/deepfake-used-to-attack-activist-couple-shows-new-disinformation-frontier-idUSKCN24G15E
#deepfake
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Report: No-Log VPNs Exposed Users’ Logs and Personal Details for All to See
A group of free VPN (virtual private network) apps left their server completely open and accessible, exposing private user data for anyone to see. This lack of basic security measures in an essential part of a cybersecurity product is not just shocking. It also shows a total disregard for standard VPN practices that put their users at risk.
The vpnMentor research team, led by Noam Rotem, uncovered the server and found Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data for potentially over 20 million VPN users, according to claims of user numbers made by the VPNs.
Each of these VPNs claims that their services are “no-log” VPNs, which means that they don’t record any user activity on their respective apps. However, we found multiple instances of internet activity logs on their shared server. This was in addition to the PII data, which included email addresses, clear text passwords, IP addresses, home addresses, phone models, device ID, and other technical details.
The VPNs affected are UFO VPN, FAST VPN, Free VPN, Super VPN, Flash VPN, Secure VPN, and Rabbit VPN – all of which appear to be connected by a common app developer and white-labeled for other companies.
👀 👉🏼 https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/report-free-vpns-leak/
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A group of free VPN (virtual private network) apps left their server completely open and accessible, exposing private user data for anyone to see. This lack of basic security measures in an essential part of a cybersecurity product is not just shocking. It also shows a total disregard for standard VPN practices that put their users at risk.
The vpnMentor research team, led by Noam Rotem, uncovered the server and found Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data for potentially over 20 million VPN users, according to claims of user numbers made by the VPNs.
Each of these VPNs claims that their services are “no-log” VPNs, which means that they don’t record any user activity on their respective apps. However, we found multiple instances of internet activity logs on their shared server. This was in addition to the PII data, which included email addresses, clear text passwords, IP addresses, home addresses, phone models, device ID, and other technical details.
The VPNs affected are UFO VPN, FAST VPN, Free VPN, Super VPN, Flash VPN, Secure VPN, and Rabbit VPN – all of which appear to be connected by a common app developer and white-labeled for other companies.
👀 👉🏼 https://www.vpnmentor.com/blog/report-free-vpns-leak/
#vpn #breach #leak #cybersecurity
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Report: No-Log VPNs Reveal Users' Personal Data and Logs
A group of free VPN (virtual private network) apps left their server completely open and accessible, exposing private user data for anyone to see. This lack of basic security
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Massive Bitcoin fraud wave rolls over Twitter
Do not send Bitcoins! They will certainly not be doubled.
Prominent Twitter accounts such as those of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Apple and Uber currently promise to double Bitcoins sent to certain wallets. Numerous crypto currency exchanges also tweet similar "invitations". Some refer to an alleged "Crypto for Health" campaign.
This is a large-scale fraud attempt. The most likely scenario at present is a security hole in Twitter, which allows the perpetrators to access numerous, perhaps even all, Twitter accounts. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the perpetrators will send less conspicuous tweets to any Twitter account. Now, special caution is required when interpreting tweets.
👉🏼 👀 🇬🇧 https://www.coindesk.com/hackers-take-over-prominent-crypto-twitter-accounts-in-simultaneous-attack
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1283518038445223936
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://www.heise.de/news/Massive-Bitcoin-Betrugswelle-ueberrollt-Twitter-4844911.html
#twitter #fraud #bitcoin #hacked
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Do not send Bitcoins! They will certainly not be doubled.
Prominent Twitter accounts such as those of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Apple and Uber currently promise to double Bitcoins sent to certain wallets. Numerous crypto currency exchanges also tweet similar "invitations". Some refer to an alleged "Crypto for Health" campaign.
This is a large-scale fraud attempt. The most likely scenario at present is a security hole in Twitter, which allows the perpetrators to access numerous, perhaps even all, Twitter accounts. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that the perpetrators will send less conspicuous tweets to any Twitter account. Now, special caution is required when interpreting tweets.
👉🏼 👀 🇬🇧 https://www.coindesk.com/hackers-take-over-prominent-crypto-twitter-accounts-in-simultaneous-attack
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1283518038445223936
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://www.heise.de/news/Massive-Bitcoin-Betrugswelle-ueberrollt-Twitter-4844911.html
#twitter #fraud #bitcoin #hacked
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Twitter Hack Takes Down Joe Biden, Elon Musk Accounts in Widespread Bitcoin Scam Attack
Hackers pumping a crypto giveaway scam appear to have compromised the Twitter accounts of leading exchanges, individuals and at least one news org.
Google Censorship Is a Danger to Public Health
The monopoly platform’s new policy of disappearing documents at odds with the expert opinion of the moment is both sinister and stupid
The mass migration into full-time internet existence caused by the COVID-19 quarantines should remove any lingering doubts that online is real life—and any pretense that there’s an impermeable wall separating the two is a dangerous and quite possibly deadly illusion.
How could it be otherwise? The drama of our lives plays out on the internet; our physical well-being and that of our families depend on access to goods and information that exist only within a digital infrastructure. The internet is less an arena of pure fantasy than an alternate dimension, connected to our own but governed by different laws. It is imperative to learn what those laws are and follow them back to their source. There are digital methods to encode and verify one’s identity so that you can be yourself online, talk to your friends and pay your bills. For the most part these methods work well and consistently so that we cease to question the rules by which the translation between online and offline occurs, and often lose track of the difference.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/coronavirus-google-censorship-danger
#google #censorship
The monopoly platform’s new policy of disappearing documents at odds with the expert opinion of the moment is both sinister and stupid
The mass migration into full-time internet existence caused by the COVID-19 quarantines should remove any lingering doubts that online is real life—and any pretense that there’s an impermeable wall separating the two is a dangerous and quite possibly deadly illusion.
How could it be otherwise? The drama of our lives plays out on the internet; our physical well-being and that of our families depend on access to goods and information that exist only within a digital infrastructure. The internet is less an arena of pure fantasy than an alternate dimension, connected to our own but governed by different laws. It is imperative to learn what those laws are and follow them back to their source. There are digital methods to encode and verify one’s identity so that you can be yourself online, talk to your friends and pay your bills. For the most part these methods work well and consistently so that we cease to question the rules by which the translation between online and offline occurs, and often lose track of the difference.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/science/articles/coronavirus-google-censorship-danger
#google #censorship
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Google Censorship Is a Danger to Public Health
The monopoly platform’s new policy of disappearing documents at odds with the expert opinion of the moment is both sinister and stupid
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Best 5 Linux distros for Windows users 🖥
Recommended : Linux Mint ( Cinnamon) or Zorin Os
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https://invidio.us/watch?v=shUNoefHyAU&local=true
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This video recommends the best 5 Linux distros for windows users who are confused what to choose when they want to install Linux for the first time.Recommended : Linux Mint ( Cinnamon) or Zorin Os
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https://invidio.us/watch?v=shUNoefHyAU&local=true
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The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud
Nationwide protests against racist policing have brought new scrutiny onto big tech companies like Facebook, which is under boycott by advertisers over hate speech directed at people of color, and Amazon, called out for aiding police surveillance. But Microsoft, which has largely escaped criticism, is knee-deep in services for law enforcement, fostering an ecosystem of companies that provide police with software using Microsoft’s cloud and other platforms. The full story of these ties highlights how the tech sector is increasingly entangled in intimate, ongoing relationships with police departments.
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/14/microsoft-police-state-mass-surveillance-facial-recognition/
#microsoft #surveillance #protest
Nationwide protests against racist policing have brought new scrutiny onto big tech companies like Facebook, which is under boycott by advertisers over hate speech directed at people of color, and Amazon, called out for aiding police surveillance. But Microsoft, which has largely escaped criticism, is knee-deep in services for law enforcement, fostering an ecosystem of companies that provide police with software using Microsoft’s cloud and other platforms. The full story of these ties highlights how the tech sector is increasingly entangled in intimate, ongoing relationships with police departments.
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/14/microsoft-police-state-mass-surveillance-facial-recognition/
#microsoft #surveillance #protest
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The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud
Microsoft helps police surveil and patrol communities through its own offerings and a network of partnerships — while its PR efforts obscure this.
Mozilla launches VPN service to help protect your privacy
VPNs have become popular tools for hiding online activity and bypassing geography-based restrictions on streaming services.
Mozilla announced Wednesday that its virtual private network service is now available on Windows, with support for Android devices scheduled to arrive later this week. The release could give Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox web browser, a little financial independence.
The $4.99 monthly service will be available initially in the US, Canada, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand.
https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-launches-vpn-service-to-help-protect-your-privacy/
#mozilla #vpn
VPNs have become popular tools for hiding online activity and bypassing geography-based restrictions on streaming services.
Mozilla announced Wednesday that its virtual private network service is now available on Windows, with support for Android devices scheduled to arrive later this week. The release could give Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox web browser, a little financial independence.
The $4.99 monthly service will be available initially in the US, Canada, the UK, Singapore, Malaysia and New Zealand.
https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-launches-vpn-service-to-help-protect-your-privacy/
#mozilla #vpn