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With new Chinese cyber-tools, Ethiopia more easily spies on its people
Yahoo News In response to Citizen Lab research and inquiry about the Ethiopian government's use of FinSpy, an Ethiopian government spokesperson said in a statement to media, “I cannot tell you what type of instruments we're going to use or not. I've no idea, and … |
A White House senior official said President Obama will call for an end to NSA bulk collection and storage of phone records. The Obama administration wants phone companies, not the NSA, to be responsible for storing bulk phone record metadata and for quickly handing over retained records if the government supplies a new type of surveillance court order.
Ms. Smith’s blog
A long-running legal dispute that was settled is now bubbling up once again. Namely, the way that Facebook appropriates children and teen users’ names and photos for “Sponsored Story” ads when users “Like” something, regardless of whether such users want to be seen as endorsing the subject of their thumbs-upping.
Naked Security – Sophos
Basecamp, maker of the popular project-management app by the same name, was back online Monday afternoon after sustaining a crippling denial-of-service attack earlier in the day that rendered its services unavailable to virtually all users.
In a blog post published Monday, Basecamp officials said the attack began after they spurned a demand to pay an unspecified ransom to avoid a threatened assault on their site. The flood of data that came after the demand was rebuffed peaked at about 20 gigabits per second, preventing legitimate traffic from passing through the site’s overwhelmed data connections.
“We’ve learned that the very same criminals currently attacking and trying to extort us hit others just last week,” the Basecamp blog post stated. “We’re comparing notes with everyone affected who have been in touch. The blackmail came from an address matching this pattern: dari***@gmail.com. If you have been extorted by this person, please get in contact so we can compare notes on both technical defenses and the law enforcement effort to hunt them down.”
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