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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

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More and more criminals are identified through open source intelligence (OSINT). VAMOSI: How do you find a suspect in a criminal case? How do you use digital to find a real world criminal? He’s been around the hacking scene since the late 1990s, he knows a few people, and he has contributed a lot to the industry.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

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Centre for Defence: In 2007, a struggle over a divisive Soviet statutes set the standard for a new form of Russian interference in the affairs of foreign states. But most of us failed. Although the old Russian Business Network probably is long gone and replaced with much bigger players. It is news when something happens.

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Content moderation issues are taking center stage in the presidential election campaign

The Verge

(Nathaniel Gleicher, who runs security policy at Facebook, said it’s something else , because the TikTok teens appeared to be using their real accounts and are not working to hide their coordination.). How will this behavior be weaponized in the future against the rest of us ? It also asks to control the phone’s Bluetooth function.

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Hustler at the end of the world

The Verge

As the world shut down in March 2020, anxious knowledge workers barricaded themselves at home, scrubbing produce with soap. But the crisis also prompted cynics to root around for new loopholes to exploit, for ways to raise prices, feign hardship, get a rent reduction, slack off. His first move was to level up his home life.

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Everything we know about this week’s big Twitter hack so far

The Verge

Does Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey promise to tell us everything that happened as soon as he can? In that year, NBC News’ account got hacked and falsely said that Ground Zero was under attack. What are some other examples of hackers using social engineering techniques to wreak havoc? At Facebook, the news for 2020 is mixed.

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

The Verge

They would use his profile photo, select a user name similar to his, and tweet out an offer that was effective despite being too good to be true: send him a little cryptocurrency, and he’ll send you a lot back. The events of 2018 showed us three things. That brings us to today. But they came later.

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Telepath is a buzzy new social network trying to fix what’s broken on Twitter

The Verge

But even if Telepath doesn’t take off, it has given us a gift: a blueprint for approaching content moderation that is tough, constructive, and takes a point of view about how people ought to behave. Imagine what position the rest of us would be in if previous social networks have been thinking about this from day one, too.

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