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New Online Service Will Hack Printers to Spew Out Spam

Posted: 12/11/2018 | Leave a Comment

After a Twitter user hacked over 50,000 printers last week to promote PewDiePie's YouTube channel as part of a guerilla marketing campaign, a new service has spawned over the weekend advertising the same type of functionality, but for everyone.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-online-service-will-hack-printers-to-spew-out-spam/

Former NSA Employee Gets 5 Years in Prison for Retaining Classified Data

Posted: 10/02/2018 | Leave a Comment

A former employee of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) received a five-year prison sentence for retaining classified national defense information.

https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/security-data-protection/former-nsa-employee-gets-5-years-in-prison-for-retaining-classified-data/

Update on Twitter’s Review of the 2016 U.S. Election

Posted: 01/23/2018 | Leave a Comment

When we appeared before the United States Congress last fall, Twitter publicly committed to regularly updating both congressional committees and the public on findings from our ongoing review into events surrounding the 2016 U.S. election.

https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2018/2016-election-update.html

First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News

Posted: 09/05/2017 | Leave a Comment

Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society. In recent times, fake news has been used to manipulate stock markets, make people choose dangerous health-care options, and manipulate elections, including last year’s presidential election in the U.S. Clearly, there is an urgent need for a way to

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608561/first-evidence-that-social-bots-play-a-major-role-in-spreading-fake-news/

Tags: Fake News, Social Media

Experts Say Automated Accounts Sharing Fake News Ahead of French Election

Posted: 05/02/2017 | Leave a Comment

The study to be published Friday and another published on Wednesday add evidence to complaints by officials in France, Germany and the United States that Russia is trying to replicate its cyber-powered election meddling in American politics.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN17M31G

Tags: Information Warfare

New Center to Combat Disinformation to be Built in Finland

Posted: 04/18/2017 | Leave a Comment

The countries - Britain, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and the United States - signed the memorandum to set up the so-called "hybrid threat" center in Helsinki with the support of the Finnish government.

Tags: Information Warfare

Google’s War on Fake News Goes Global: Search Results now Tagged ‘True’ or ‘False’

Posted: 04/18/2017 | Leave a Comment

The fact-check tagging system, which is rolling out globally on Google Search and News, expands on a program introduced by Google's Jigsaw group to Google News in the UK and US in October.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-war-on-fake-news-goes-global-search-results-now-tagged-true-or-false/

Tags: Fake News, Information Warfare

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