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FEC says Twitter acted legally in blocking Hunter Biden laptop stories, pointing to claim of intel warnings about hacking

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The Federal Elections Commission said on Wednesday its members unanimously rejected complaints from the Republican National Committee and others that Twitter’s decision to block the sharing of links to articles from the New York Post related to Hunter Biden’s laptop constituted an illegal contribution to now-President Joe Biden’s candidacy.

In announcing the decision, the FEC pointed to Twitter’s assertion that part of the reason it stopped the spread of the New York Post articles in October was over concerns that foreign actors obtained the salacious materials through hacking. The social media giant claimed the U.S. Intelligence Community was warning about such an effort in the lead-up to the 2020 election. No evidence has emerged that the Hunter Biden laptop story stemmed from a foreign hacking operation.

The FEC said there was a 6-0 vote in finding “no reason to believe” that Twitter violated the law “by making corporate in-kind contributions” and “no reason to believe” that Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey or Brandon Borrman, who was Twitter vice president of global communications, broke the law.

In response to reporting on the decision published on Monday, RNC spokeswoman Emma Vaughn said the group was “weighing its options for appealing this disappointing decision from the FEC.”

An October complaint  from the RNC alleged: “Through its ad hoc, partisan oppression of media critical of Biden, [Twitter] is making illegal, corporate in-kind contributions as it provides unheard-of media services for Joe Biden’s campaign.” The RNC argued at the time that Twitter was “doing so for the clear purpose of supporting the Biden campaign.”

Robert Kelner, a lawyer who had represented retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn before Sidney Powell took over his representation, helped represent Twitter in the FEC complaint, writing in December that “Twitter undertook, for bona fide commercial reasons” actions to block potentially hacked content.

A lengthy statement from Yoel Roth, head of site integrity for Twitter, was included in Kelner’s response.

“Since 2018, I have…

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Can’t look into malware attack on Wilson’s laptop now in Mumbai: NIA | Mumbai News

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Rona Wilson (42)

Mumbai: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has questioned the maintainability and sought dismissal of a quashing petition filed by Elgar Parishad case accused, Rona Wilson (42), who is relying on a US forensic lab report that indicated planting of evidence on his laptop.
The agency’s officer, in an affidavit in reply to Wilson’s February petition, said he “stoutly” denied the reports of Arsenal Consultancy and American Bar Association. The independent forensic report of a “malware’ attack on his computer “cannot be looked into at this stage’’, NIA said.
Wilson, relying on the report, alleged he was “framed by somebody’’. NIA said his petition did not mention by who, “if at all it even happened’’, hence it was “vague’’.
Wilson, a human rights activist, lodged at Taloja prison since his June 2018 arrest by Pune police, sought quashing of a chargesheet filed by NIA, which took over the probe in January 2020. He was “charged for his role and involvement in larger CPI (Maoist) conspiracy in light of clashes at Koregaon Bhima on January 1, 2018, after an Elgar Parishad programme on December 31 at Shaniwarwada, Pune,’’ NIA said.
The chargesheet invoked serious anti-terror offences under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act against the accused, apart from offences under IPC, including section 121 (waging war against Government of India), 124a (sedition), 120b (criminal conspiracy) and 153A IPC (promoting enmity between groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc, and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony) evidence, he said, was subsequently relied by NIA to book him in the case. The last chargesheet against him was on October 10, 2020.
Wilson’s petition cited a February 8 digital forensics report from Arsenal, which said his computer had been “compromised’’ for 22 months. He urged the court to form an SIT to probe “planting of evidence”. The report had analysed a cloned copy of digital records he received from the prosecution on July 30, 2020.
Mark Stevens, president of Arsenal, in a 16-page report, had said Wilson’s was “one of the most serious cases involving evidence…

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Zoom security flaws could let hackers take over your laptop

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Two ethical hackers have managed to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in the Zoom Messenger desktop client to execute random code on a victim’s machine.

Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade from CompuTest Security demonstrated their exploit at the ongoing hacking contest Pwn2Own, and were awarded a bug bounty of $200,000 by the video conferencing service.

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Comodo Internet Security How to Block or Allow Ports Within the Firewall

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