https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/24/thai-billions-internet-records-leak/
real-time internet records on millions of Thai internet users.
“All of the data related to Internet usage patterns and did not contain personal information that could be used to identify any customer,” said the spokesperson.
But that isn’t true
A military contractors’ report circulating on Capitol Hill claims to have evidence that COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab. It’s filled with information that’s just plain wrong.
The Daily Beast asked analysts at the award-winning open source investigative news outlet Bellingcat to review the MACE dossier and evaluate the quality of its conclusions. Within minutes of receiving the dossier, Bellingcat senior investigator Nick Waters disproved one of the MACE document’s claims: that a conference on biosafety lab management at the Wuhan lab scheduled for the first week of November was canceled. Waters found a Facebook post from a Pakistani scientist who had attended the event and taken selfies there
https://www.cyberscoop.com/norfund-hacked-wealth-fund-10-million/
Thieves spent months inside the networks of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund before stealing $10 million in what the enterprise is describing as “a serious case of fraud.”
The Norwegian Investment Fund, more commonly known as Norfund, announced Wednesday that scammers stole £8.2 million ($10 million) by spoofing an email address, then fabricating payment information and directing cash into their own account
amplifying medical disinformation and the push to reopen America.
Across US and foreign elections, natural disasters, and other politicized events, the level of bot involvement is normally between 10 and 20%, she says. But in a new study, the researchers have found that bots may account for between 45 and 60% of Twitter accounts discussing covid-19
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52758787
A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents’ permission
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/may/20/apple-google-phone-app-trace-coronavirus
Software can be used to develop apps that detect when a user has spent time near another user who later tests positive for the virus
The Competition Bureau said it found that Facebook’s privacy claims were not consistent with the way it shared personal data of users with some third-party developers.
you’ll be pleased to know that, rather than double down on our containment efforts, we’ve decided to dissolve the velociraptor containment task force altogether, and focus instead on how we can get people back into the park as quickly as possible
Foreldre fekk tilgang til opplysningar om barn på hemmeleg adresse. No vil Datatilsynet gi Bergen den største data-bota til ein kommune nokon gong.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52722626
It said email addresses and travel details had been stolen and that 2,208 customers had also had their credit card details “accessed”.