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COVID Passports

Microsoft, Big Tech Coalition Developing Rockefeller Funded COVID Passports

Microsoft, Big Tech Coalition Developing Rockefeller Funded COVID Passports Via Summit News: A coalition of big tech companies, including Microsoft is developing a COVID passport, with the expectation that a digital document linked to vaccination status will be required to travel and get access to basic services. The group is calling itself the Vaccination Credential Initiative (VCI), and includes Microsoft, Salesforce and Oracle. The US health provider Mayo Clinic is also involved in the […]

today01/15/2021 11

Lauren Boebert

Twitter Says It Reversed Its ‘Incorrect’ Decision To Lock Rep. Lauren Boebert Account

Twitter Says It Reversed Its 'Incorrect' Decision To Lock Rep. Lauren Boebert Account Via Business Insider: Twitter has reversed its decision to lock Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert's account, a Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Insider. Boebert posted on Instagram Wednesday a screenshotof a Twitter alert that her account has been restricted for 6 days over policy violations. In a statement to Insider, the spokesperson said, "In this instance, our teams took […]

today01/14/2021 13

Signal

WhatsApp Growth Slumps As Rivals Signal, Telegram Rise

WhatsApp Growth Slumps As Rivals Signal, Telegram Rise Via AP News: Encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Google’s app stores. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, by contrast, is seeing its growth decline following a fiasco that forced the company to clarify a privacy update it had sent to users. Mobile app analytics firm Sensor Tower said Wednesday that Signal saw 17.8 million app downloads […]

today01/14/2021 11

YouTube

YouTube Bows To Pressure, Suspends President Trump’s Channel

YouTube Bows To Pressure, Suspends President Trump's Channel Via Reuters: Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Tuesday it has suspended Donald Trump’s channel as it violated policies for inciting violence after last week’s assault on the U.S. Capitol by the president’s supporters. Online platforms and social media companies are distancing themselves from, and taking action against, those that encouraged or engaged in the violence in Washington, DC. Trump’s channel is now […]

today01/13/2021 30

American Economic Liberties

American Economic Liberties Project Want High Tech Companies Broken Up

American Economic Liberties Project Want High Tech Companies Broken Up Via Reuters: The Biden administration should expand antitrust cases against Alphabet’s Google and Facebook and encourage breaking up companies, according to a group whose founder is working with the president-elect’s transition team. The American Economic Liberties Project, an influential Washington-based anti-monopoly group, issued a report with guidance for antitrust enforcers in the next administration. The group is led by Sarah […]

today01/12/2021 29

DHS

SolarWinds Hackers Linked To Known Russian Spying Tools

SolarWinds Hackers Linked To Known Russian Spying Tools Via Reuters: The group behind a global cyber-espionage campaign discovered last month deployed malicious computer code with links to spying tools previously used by suspected Russian hackers, researchers said on Monday. Investigators at Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said the “backdoor” used to compromise up to 18,000 customers of U.S. software maker SolarWinds closely resembled malware tied to a hacking group known as […]

today01/11/2021 9

Twitter

Twitter Locks President Trump’s Account For 12 hours

Twitter Locks President Trump's Account For 12 hours Via Just The News: Twitter has locked President Trump's account for 12 hours and says that unless several tweets are removed the account will continue to be locked.  "As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our […]

today01/07/2021 4

SolarWinds

U.S. Cyber Agency Says SolarWinds Hackers Are ‘Impacting’ State, Local Governments

U.S. Cyber Agency Says SolarWinds Hackers Are 'Impacting' State, Local Governments Via Reuters: The U.S. cybersecurity agency said on Wednesday that a sprawling cyber espionage campaign made public earlier this month is affecting state and local governments, although it released few additional details. The hacking campaign, which used U.S. tech company SolarWinds as a springboard to penetrate federal government networks, was “impacting enterprise networks across federal, state, and local governments, […]

today12/24/2020 4

U.S. Treasury

‘Dozens Of Email Accounts’ Were Hacked At U.S. Treasury -Senator Wyden

'Dozens Of Email Accounts' Were Hacked At U.S. Treasury -Senator Wyden Via Reuters: Dozens of email accounts at the U.S. Treasury Department were compromised by the powerful hackers responsible for a wide-ranging espionage campaign against U.S. government agencies, the office of U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said on Monday. In a written statement, Wyden’s office said that Senate Finance Committee staff were briefed that the hack of the Treasury Department appears […]

today12/22/2020 9

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