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William Turton

@williamturton
152 posts
2024-04-12
lol they are forcing the checkmarks onto us [image]
2024-04-12 View on X
Engadget

X tells users that “the hide your checkmark feature of X Premium is going away soon”, after adding blue checks to “influential” accounts with 2,500+ followers

The change comes after X began verifying “influential” users who hadn't signed up for premium.

2024-02-09
The new owner of Epik is a company that operates an empire of shell companies across the United States, Registered Agents Inc. The company is owned by a mysterious man named Dan Keen, according to two people. The company denied Keen is the owner. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-02-09 View on X
Wired

Epik, a domain registrar serving far-right and extremist websites, has been acquired by Registered Agents, whose services allow companies to operate anonymously

Known for doing business with far-right extremist websites, Epik has been acquired by a company that specializes in helping businesses keep their operations secret.

Keen is intensely private, according to multiple people who have worked with him who requested anonymity to discuss details of the deal. “He has made it his mission in life to be invisible,” said one. https://www.wired.com/...
2024-02-09 View on X
Wired

Epik, a domain registrar serving far-right and extremist websites, has been acquired by Registered Agents, whose services allow companies to operate anonymously

Known for doing business with far-right extremist websites, Epik has been acquired by a company that specializes in helping businesses keep their operations secret.

2024-01-10
Absolutely stunning. A nightmare scenario for the SEC. How exactly this tweet got posted will be extremely important
2024-01-10 View on X
CoinDesk

An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says that the @SECGov's “twitter account was compromised”, and that the agency has not approved spot bitcoin ETFs

The X account of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which is deciding whether to approve bitcoin ETFs, “was compromised,” the regulator told CoinDesk.

2023-12-02
“doxxing” has lost all meaning. the guy confirms his identity and gives an interview in the story
2023-12-02 View on X
Forbes

An interview with Guillaume Verdon, founder of stealth AI startup Extropic who is behind the @BasedBeffJezos persona at the center of effective accelerationism

and spoke to Guillaume Verdon, the self-described “gentle Canadian” behind the account. https://www.forbes.com/... William Turton / @williamturton : “doxxing” has lost all meaning....

2023-09-20
Exactly. It's a very interesting development. I'm curious if it will affect how freely major US technology firms reveal nation state hacking operations (who already closely collaborate with federal law enforcement and the intelligence community on these disclosures)
2023-09-20 View on X
Nikkei Asia

In a WeChat post, China's Ministry of State Security accuses the US of hacking Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and installing backdoors since 2009

Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying  —  China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei's servers continuously since 2009.

The disclosures from the Chinese government of US hacking campaigns are slowly but surely becoming more specific. Personally I'd love to read about specific tactics and techniques used by US hackers, something that is rarely published https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2023-09-20 View on X
Nikkei Asia

In a WeChat post, China's Ministry of State Security accuses the US of hacking Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and installing backdoors since 2009

Beijing says Washington forces tech companies to install backdoors for spying  —  China has accused the U.S. of hacking Huawei's servers continuously since 2009.

2023-09-15
scoop - caesars entertainment inc paid millions in a ransom to hackers in recent weeks. the hacking group responsible is believed to be comprised of people 19-22 years old in the US and UK. the same group hit MGM resorts. story tk 🎰
2023-09-15 View on X
Financial Times

MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines

Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company

scoop - caesars entertainment inc paid millions in a ransom to hackers in recent weeks. the hacking group responsible is believed to be comprised of people 19-22 years old in the US and UK. the same group hit MGM resorts. story tk 🎰
2023-09-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Filing: Caesars confirms the casino operator was hacked via a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor; sources: Caesars paid a ~$15M ransom

CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act … Thomas Barrabi / New York Post : Caesars Entertainment paid about $15M to hackers who stole customer...

caesars just confirmed it was hacked in an SEC filing just now [image]
2023-09-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Filing: Caesars confirms the casino operator was hacked via a social engineering attack on an outsourced IT support vendor; sources: Caesars paid a ~$15M ransom

CURRENT REPORT Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act … Thomas Barrabi / New York Post : Caesars Entertainment paid about $15M to hackers who stole customer...

caesars just confirmed it was hacked in an SEC filing just now [image]
2023-09-15 View on X
Financial Times

MGM was likely hacked by Scattered Spider, an English-speaking group that previously used help desk calls to get passwords and planned to hack the slot machines

Person claiming to represent cybercriminals explains techniques used to evade detection by casino resort company

2023-09-14
scoop - caesars entertainment inc paid millions in a ransom to hackers in recent weeks. the hacking group responsible is believed to be comprised of people 19-22 years old in the US and UK. the same group hit MGM resorts. story tk 🎰
2023-09-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Caesars Entertainment paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who breached the company's systems in recent weeks and threatened to release the data

- Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said  — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack

caesars just confirmed it was hacked in an SEC filing just now [image]
2023-09-14 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: Caesars Entertainment paid tens of millions of dollars to hackers who breached the company's systems in recent weeks and threatened to release the data

- Hackers stole data, extorted company, people familiar said  — Caesars breach came in weeks before MGM announced cyberattack

2023-07-03
by posts do you mean...tweets https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-03 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself via a Twitter web app JavaScript bug, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For anyone keeping track, this isn't even the first time they've completely broken … Nick Heer / Pixel Envy : Tweets Are Now Login-Walled  —  Like Šime Vidas, I have often linked o...

by posts do you mean...tweets https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-03 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk says Twitter has temporarily limited verified accounts to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping

Censorship Expert Says Musk ‘Has Stepped on a Rattlesnake’ Jonas Mäki / Gamereactor UK : Twitter stops data collection by adding lots of restrictions Brayden Lindrea / Cointelegrap...

2023-07-02
by posts do you mean...tweets https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-02 View on X
TechCrunch

Elon Musk says verified Twitter accounts are temporarily limited to reading 10K posts/day, unverified 1K, and new unverified 500, due to “extreme” data scraping

Twitter is putting limits to how many tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage …

by posts do you mean...tweets https://twitter.com/...
2023-07-02 View on X
Waxy.org

A developer says Twitter appears to be DDoSing itself due to a bug in Twitter's web app, which could be tied to Elon Musk's emergency blocks and rate limits

For the last two days, Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter is under attack from “several hundred organizations” who were conducting …

2022-12-15
Free speech commitment lasted just over one month https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-15 View on X
Bloomberg

Twitter suspends ~30 accounts sharing private jets' locations via public data, including @ElonJet, which Elon Musk had said he wouldn't ban for tracking his jet

Twitter Inc. has suspended multiple accounts that track the locations of private jets using publicly available flight data …

Quite obvious he's making up policy on the fly. If someone reported that a defendant in a criminal trial arrived at a courthouse as it is happening, would that be doxxing? What about a basketball player arriving to an arena for a game? How would you even enforce this? https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-15 View on X
New York Times

Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location”

The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.

Free speech commitment lasted just over one month https://twitter.com/...
2022-12-15 View on X
New York Times

Twitter updates its private information and media policy with new rules, including suspending accounts “dedicated to sharing someone else's live location”

The suspended accounts include one that followed the private plane of Elon Musk, Twitter's owner.