A Critical Reading list on Tech && (Politics × Society × Ethics) (github.com)
Security researchers criticize Microsoft over handling of bug reports (www.zerodayinitiative.com)
Edit for an addition: If you are interested in the technical details of this bug, you can read about it here....
Open Letter: "The European Union must keep funding free software" (nextgraph.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/859623...
Swedish digital forensic group Qurium shows how Russia is using European companies for propaganda (www.qurium.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/836852...
Quieting Discord: A new frontier in military leaks and extremism (www.navytimes.com)
China’s relentless e-commerce price war leaves sellers struggling to make ends meet as shopping platforms compete with ever-more aggressive policies and a domestic economy slowing down (theadvisermagazine.com)
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AMD to acquire Finnish startup Silo AI for $665 mln to step up in AI race (www.reuters.com)
China-linked pollyfill[.]io attack impacts 380,000 hosts, including major companies like WarnerBros, Hulu, Mercedes-Benz, and Pearson (thehackernews.com)
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Russia has escalated its information war against Moldova joining the European Union (www.usip.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/488027...
Russia using Kaliningrad as a base to disrupt EU satellites, report says (www.cybersecurity-help.cz)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/408016...
Human Rights Watch urges the European Commission to assess the impact of state-imposed forced labor in China's Xinjiang region in Electric Vehicle sector (www.hrw.org)
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/390314...
Chinese authorities may have made bomb threats in the name of a dissident’s family to try and control his political activities abroad (apnews.com)
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Taiwan: Beijing's information war has failed to make China's system of governance attractive to Taiwanese, but it drives polarisation and reduces people's trust in democratic institutions, poll shows (www.journalofdemocracy.org)
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'ChamelGang & Friends': China-linked Cyberespionage Groups Attacking Critical Infrastructure Globally with Ransomware (www.sentinelone.com)
Threat actors in the cyberespionage ecosystem are engaging in an increasingly disturbing trend of using ransomware as a final stage in their operations for the purposes of financial gain, disruption, distraction, misattribution, or removal of evidence....
Chinese hackers deploy SpiceRAT and SugarGh0st in global espionage campaign primarily targeting government entities across Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa (thehackernews.com)
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[Gamers Nexus] HW News - USA Sues Adobe & Bans DeepCool, AMD Targeted by Cybercrime, ASUS MicroSD Statement (www.youtube.com)
“We Can Still Contact Technical Support in the West”: Russian weapons are being manufactured on foreign machinery — but why are they still running? (istories.media)
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Pro-Kremlin Doppelganger campaign continued its copycatting and reality-distorting activities during the European Parliament elections, report says (euvsdisinfo.eu)
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NATO Member Sweden Says Russia Disrupting Its Satellite Networks (www.swissinfo.ch)
Swedish authorities say Russia is behind “harmful interference” deliberately targeting the Nordic country’s satellite networks that it first noted days after joining NATO earlier this year....
Pumpkins, markets, and one bad Apple (www.fsf.org)
'Crucial for deterring Russian aggression’: New campaign seeks to block TikTok in Ukraine (meduza.io)
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False promise of biometrics: Digital IDs in Africa failing to deliver promised democratic and development boost while making fortunes for tech vendors, investigations finds (www.lighthousereports.com)
Some of the world’s poorest countries have been investing heavily in digital ID systems which it is claimed will deliver democratic and development dividends. Africa has been at the forefront of this push supported by the World Bank, UN agencies and the international community. Some of Africa’s most fragile states have been...
How Data-Fueled Neurotargeting Could Kill Democracy (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
Left unchecked, the technique, which weaponizes emotional data for political gain, could erode the foundations of a fair and informed society....
[Gamers Nexus] "Is AMD (Radeon) Actually Screwed?" ft. Steve of Hardware Unboxed (www.youtube.com)
The Steves converge…
BusKill Warrant Canary for 2024 H2 🕵️ (www.buskill.in)
This post contains a canary message that’s cryptographically signed by the official BusKill PGP release key...
