US officials attribute a DDoS attack on the HHS in March 2020 to a state-level actor; docs: the DDoS attack was the largest the US government ever experienced
Bloomberg : X: @niubi X: Bill Bishop / @niubi : A massive cyberattack hit the US government in the early days of Covid. For the first time, officials reveal its scale https://www.bloomberg.com/... vi...
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams
of human trafficking. Thousands of people across Southeast Asia are lured with the promise of good jobs, then trapped and forced to scam. Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : It turns out people really do lose mil...
A book excerpt traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar that use forced labor to run pig butchering scams involving Tether
The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I'm Vicky Ho don't you remember me?” X: @bw , @bw , @joelwebershow , @yueqi_yang , ...
Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation's facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a potential cyberattack
updating software to fix vulnerabilities—using only Chinese nationals at the facility in Dalian, a port city at the southern tip of China's Liaoning province.” https://www.wsj.com/... Matthew Pines / ...
Source: in Q1 2022, Apple was the top advertiser on Twitter, spending $48M and accounting for over 4% of Twitter's revenue that quarter
now he's worried about ‘tyranny’ if Apple deplatforms him The Verge : Elon's pretend naiveté about Apple and the App Store is very funny. Barron's Online : Elon Musk Takes on Apple Over App Store Fees...
A profile of Dan O'Dowd, who made a fortune with his embedded systems OS company and is now obsessed with exposing Tesla's FSD beta as incomplete and unsafe
Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post : Tweets: @gerritd , @realdanodowd , @gartenberg , and @niubi Tweets: Gerrit De Vynck / @gerritd : Dan O'Dowd says Tesla's “full self-driving” tech is dangerous. He'...
Research: social media accounts pushing misinformation are targeting users in non-English languages before the US midterms, with scant resistance from platforms
Tiffany Hsu / New York Times : Tweets: @hispaniccaucus , @grahamallen_1 , @themexican , @davidlaz , @meteor_blades , @tiffkhsu , @niubi , @researchbuzz , and @ceciliakang Tweets: @hispaniccaucus : “T...
How TikTok is making inroads into US schools, as students create TikTok clubs to riff on the latest memes, and shoot videos on Newton's Laws for extra credit
Teens love the app, and now it's getting the stamp of approval with teacher-approved clubs. Did school just get ... fun? Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @carolinemoss , @niubi , @jamiew , @katherinemiller , ...
A US nonprofit org founded by Google and IBM is working with a company helping China's government secretly monitor phone and internet activity of 200M people
An American organization founded by tech giants Google and IBM is working with a company that is helping China's authoritarian … Tweets: @paulmozur , @dakekang , @petecirwin , @baldingsworld , @niubi ...