We've got a crossposted episode for you this week: Mike recently joined The Cato Daily Podcast with Caleb O. Brown for a discussion about the "hacking" fiasco in Missouri and the state's treatment of the journalists who exposed its...

Got a Windows PC? You can now enjoy the modern design, improved productivity, and enhanced security & privacy of the all-new 1Password 8. 🥳

The journalists of Novaya Gazeta report on dangerous conflicts—and endure threats of their own.

Gabriel Weinberg doesn't want to blow up the internet. He just wants to blow up the trackers.

Companies speaking to reporters — especially tech companies, but they're by no means the only ones; media companies do it too — like to add information "on background." That means that the information they provide can be included in the story, but can't be attributed specifically to …

Facebook Doc Stories October 27, 2021 WaPo: In Poland’s politics, a ‘social civil war’ brewed as Facebook rewarded online anger WaPo: Former Facebook auditor says whistleblower’s claims have ‘revived’ civil rights concerns WSJ: Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures ​​ Forbes:...

This is an ongoing public Google Doc collecting all the stories published surrounding the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” project. Shortlink: https://bit.ly/fbdocstories

Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents. Read all the stories here.

On behalf of the EUNOMIA project, in which I represent Mastodon, I am happy to announce that after nearly 3 years of development there is now a public pilot for the Mastodon community. But first, what is EUNOMIA and who is EUNOMIA? EUNOMIA is a “digital companion” for social media, a set of additional functions that aim to combat the spread of misinformation by helping you critically analyze social media posts before re-sharing them.

It's another crossposted episode this week! Mike recently joined the Tech Policy Press podcast alongside Block Party founder Tracy Chou for a conversation about using middleware and interoperability to craft a new, less centralized online...

Selling the story of disinformation

A few days after Gov. Mike Parson accused a St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter of hacking a state website, hundreds of Sinclair Broadcast Group television stations fell victim to a ransomware attack. One of these was a cyberattack, one was reporting. We’ll distinguish between the two. And, is the other shoe about to drop on Facebook? We’ll talk about how the company’s communications team is responding to another set of leaked documents. From Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News.

Cryptocurrency promises to liberate the monetary system from the clutches of the powerful. Instead, it mostly functions to make wealthy speculators even wealthier.

Telegram privacy fails | CVE-2021-27204 | CVE-2021-27205

At Forcepoint Security Labs we are always looking at the methods threat actors use to circumvent existing protections. One such investigation saw us looking into the usage of the Telegram encrypted messaging service as a Command and Control (C2) infrastructure for malware. Malware that uses Telegram as a C2 channel typically uses the Telegram Bot API for communications. In the course of an investigation into one piece of malware, we discovered a significant flaw in the way Telegram handles messages sent through its Bot API.

iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 will be released to the public on Monday 20 September, 2021. This post contains details of the VoiceOver, low vision, and braille bugs which we believe will be introduced in these releases; as well as details of the pre-existing bugs which we believe to be resolved.

Firefox can now set itself as default in just one click.

The new iCloud+ privacy feature isn't the same as a VPN, but for many users it might be close enough.