Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Laura Poitras, a founding editor of The Intercept, won an Academy Award tonight for her documentary “Citizenfour,” an inside look at Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency whistleblower. “The disclosures that Edward Snowden revealed don’t only expose a threat to our privacy but to our democracy itself,” Poitras said in her acceptance speech. “Thank you…
– Sophisticated “Ocean’s 11” style heist is one of the largest in history – Hackers remotely accessed bank computers to manipulate accounts and A.T.M.s. – Banking groups make no comment – Details expose incredible systemic vulnerability An international group of cyber criminals have stolen at least $300,000,000 from over 100 banking and financial institutions in…
Share Tweet Share Send Link ISIS is facing massive attacks on its web forums, Twitter accounts and other social media outlets, purportedly from Anonymous, the loosely affiliated online activism group. Over the past few days, most of the prominent jihadi forums used by ISIS members and supporters, such as AlPlatformMedia.com, have been taken offline and since stayed that way. Anonymous…
On Tuesday, iSIGHT Partners and Invincea disclosed an attack on Forbes.com, assumed to be the work of actors from China conducting an espionage campaign. But the way the disclosure was handled, including a sensational news cycle and required registration for actual details, makes it look as if both vendors are using the incident to increase…
Want 2 GB of extra space in your Google Drive account? Today, Google will give it to you for free, just for doing something you should be doing anyway: Reviewing your security. Turning on things like two-step verification and having a strong password are great, but it’s not enough to just set it and forget…
Photo Outside the Anthem headquarters in Indianapolis. Anthem said it detected a data breach on Jan. 29, and that it was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Credit Darron Cummings/Associated Press close shareTools Anthem, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, said late Wednesday that the personal information of tens of millions of its…
(Bloomberg) — Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp. said the U.S. Justice Department won’t prosecute either company after an investigation into voicemail hacking and payments to public officials in the U.K. The companies announced the decision in separate regulatory filings on Monday. “We are grateful that this matter has been concluded and…
Wikileaks sent a letter to Google on Jan. 26 asking details on what materials Google handed over to the the FBI after a warrant was issued in March 2012. Wikileaks also wants to know why Google did not inform Wikileaks employees of the request until Dec. 23, 2014. Google released emails of three Wikileaks members to…
One of the Twitter accounts set up using the author’s photo and name This post first appeared on VICE UK. “Ellie! Chia! I didn’t know you were here!” We’re on the Malia strip during the summer of 2010. My friend and I stare blankly back at the boy in front of us, certain we’ve never…
Four years ago, intimate photographs of Danish journalist Emma Holten were posted on the web. Thousands viewed them and she still receives online harassment. The issues of revenge porn and hacked photos are part of a larger problem with our relationship to consent, she argues. So Holten decided to pose for and release a new…