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Plus, GSA shamed for glacial notification pace Roundup This week's headlines included buggy cranes, WebEx cockups, and DNS drama.…
Apple boss demands Bloomberg Super Micro U-turn, Russian troll charged, NSA hands out cash, and more
Plus, hackers find a safe haven in West Haven Roundup After we encountered a libssh security blunder, a leaky Tea Party, and a dodgy Redmond sports marketer, another week is in the book.…
Over 1m tweets show that we're suckers for funny/sarcastic/edgy, not so much for blah-blah-blah “news” spreaders.
Pinedo avoids serious time after spilling beans to Mueller on account sales A California man who provided bank accounts to Russian online trolls seeking to monkey with America's 2016 elections...
Bots and Trolls Account for Majority of Vaccine Tweets, Researchers FindPublic health alert: Russian trolls have been spreading "polarized and anti-vaccine" misinformation via social media in a...
It's surprising how many trolls don't realise that if Twitter knows who they are, the police can find out too.
Posts hit hyper-partisan r/the_donald, CEO says most crimped before 2016 election While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Congress, Reddit confessed to its own Russian problem.…
Russian pro-propaganda accounts boosted, but posts remain in place so users can delete them or not A group of Russian “troll factory” operators indicted in February were tagged by Tumblr last year.…
Leading the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report: The Department of Justice indicts Russians for allegedly running an industrialized troll factory designed to influence U.S. politics. Also,...
CIA Chief Warns Russia is Seeking to Influence US Midterm ElectionsHow effective are nation-backed trolls at influencing individuals via social media? An analysis of Russian trolls' accounts...