Favorite In the past six weeks, the Washington Post published two blockbuster stories about the Russian threat that went viral: one on how Russia is behind a massive explosion of “fake news,” the other on how it invaded the U.S. electric grid. Both articles were fundamentally false. Each now bears a humiliating editor’s note grudgingly acknowledging that…
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Russia Hysteria Infects WashPost Again: False Story About Hacking U.S. Electric Grid
Favorite (updated below) The Washington Post on Friday reported a genuinely alarming event: Russian hackers have penetrated the U.S. power system through an electrical grid in Vermont. The Post headline conveyed the seriousness of the threat: The first sentence of the article directly linked this cyberattack to alleged Russian hacking of the email accounts of the DNC and John…
Arquivo Snowden confirma que novo vazamento da NSA é autêntico
Favorite Na segunda-feira, um grupo de hackers, ShadowBrokers anunciou um leilão para o que chamaram de “armas cibernéticas” criadas pela NSA (Agência de Segurança Nacional dos EUA). Com base em documentos inéditos, fornecidos por Edward Snowden, o The Intercept confirma que o arsenal contém softwares autênticos da NSA, que são parte de um conjunto de ferramentas…
Propostas da CPI dos Crimes Cibernéticos ameaçam a internet livre para 200 milhões de pessoas
Favorite (The English version of this article can be read here.) Ativistas brasileiros pela liberdade na internet estão nervosos. Nesta quarta-feira, uma comissão na Câmara dos Deputados vai pôr em votação sete projetos de lei criados ostensivamente para combater crimes cibernéticos. Enquanto isso, críticos alegam que o efeito combinado dessas propostas irá restringir substancialmente o…
Brazilian Cybercrime Bills Threaten Open Internet for 200 Million People
Favorite (Para ler a versão desse artigo em Português, clique aqui.) Brazilian internet freedom activists are nervous. On Wednesday, a committee in the lower house of Congress, the Câmera dos Deputados, will vote on seven proposals ostensibly created to combat cybercrime. Critics argue the combined effect will be to substantially restrict open internet in the…
Apple Wins Major Court Victory Against FBI in a Case Similar to San Bernardino
Favorite Apple scored a major legal victory in its ongoing battle against the FBI on Monday when a federal magistrate judge in New York rejected the U.S. government’s request as part of a drug case to force the company to help it extract data from a locked iPhone. The ruling from U.S. Magistrate Judge James Orenstein was issued as…
What Sean Penn Teaches Us About How Not to Chat With a Fugitive
Favorite INTERVIEWING THE MOST WANTED MAN in the hemisphere is not something any sane person undertakes lightly. Aside from weighing the risk to one’s personal safety, a journalist must also protect his or her source by taking careful precautions — some reporters have gone so far as to risk or actually receive jail time rather than break…
Obama’s Cyber Proposals Sound Good, But Erode Information Security
Favorite The State of the Union address President Obama delivers tonight will include a slate of cyber proposals crafted to sound like timely government protections in an era beset by villainous hackers. They would in theory help the government and private sector share hack data more effectively; increase penalties for the most troubling forms of…