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  • Migrant moped gang hired hacker to breach banking apps as NYPD reveals new details about ‘sophisticated’ high-tech crime ring

    02/07/2024 6:31:55 AM PST · by lowbridge · 14 replies
    nypost.com ^ | February 6, 2024 | Tina Moore and Steve Janoski
    A group of moped-riding migrants terrorizing New Yorkers – including one Uber Eats driver – used a hacker to breach bank accounts and make purchases at stores like Home Depot, cops revealed as they shared new details on the “sophisticated” high-tech crime ring. The crew — and others like it — include people from several nations, including Venezuela, Ecuador, Honduras and Mexico, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told reporters. “There’s not a Venezuelan shelter, there’s not a Mexican shelter,” he said. “They’re all brought in together, along with other groups as well.” But the Venezuelan-led gangs — including the...
  • Local officials urge motorists to refrain from taking alternate county road routes suggested by map apps. ( Colorado )

    01/16/2024 5:58:01 AM PST · by george76 · 22 replies
    Sky-Hi News ^ | Jan 15, 2024 | Tara Alatorre
    Update, 5 p.m.: The Grand County Sheriff’s Office stated that County Road 1/Trough Road is reopened. Please drive with caution. A massive amount of snow has fallen across Grand County over the weekend triggering an avalanche and multiple highway closures. As of noon on Jan. 15 U.S. Highway 40 is still closed in both directions near Berthoud Pass while snow removal continues, Rabbit Ears Pass is closed in both direction on U.S. 40 and Colorado 125 is closed in both directions from mile point 0 to Forest Road 730, which is south of Walden. While everyone is trying to navigate...
  • Windows Subsystem For Android on Windows 10 (Running Android Games and Apps on Windows 10

    01/08/2024 10:31:35 PM PST · by fireman15 · 37 replies
    GitHub ^ | 12-15-2023 | MustardChef
    Text Guide: 1. Go to the Releases page 2. In the latest release, go to the Assets section and download the Windows Subsystem For Android™ version of your choosing (do not download "Source code") 3. Extract the .7z archive and rename the folder (that you extracted) to WSA 4. Delete the .7z archive 5. Move the newly extracted folder to a suitable location (Documents folder is a good choice), as you will need to keep the folder on your PC to use MagiskOnWSANoteIf you're updating WSA, merge the folders and replace the files for all items when asked 6. Open...
  • Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users

    12/07/2023 8:01:44 AM PST · by mikelets456 · 10 replies
    AP/MacRumors ^ | 12/6/2023 | AP/Mac Rumors
    WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users via their apps' push notifications, a U.S. senator warned on Wednesday. In a letter to the Department of Justice, Senator Ron Wyden said foreign officials were demanding the data from Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Apple (AAPL.O). Although details were sparse, the letter lays out yet another path by which governments can track smartphones. Apps of all kinds rely on push notifications to alert smartphone users to incoming messages, breaking news, and other updates. These are the audible "dings" or visual indicators users get when they receive an email or...
  • Hunter Biden downloaded SIXTEEN private messaging apps including drug dealers' favorite Wickr

    07/29/2023 2:23:01 PM PDT · by Libloather · 16 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 7/29/23 | Keith Griffith
    Hunter Biden downloaded sixteen private messaging apps prior to 2019, many of which utilized encryption, according to a new report. The apps included Signal, Chinese messaging app WeChat, and Wickr, an encrypted app once favored in the criminal underworld, according to a New York Post report on Saturday citing an analysis of Hunter's abandoned laptop by the activist group Marco Polo. The Wickr app did not appear on the iPhone backup included in the laptop, but had previously downloaded onto the phone from iCloud, suggesting it had been installed and then deleted, a person familiar with the analysis told the...
  • Private Spies Hired by the FBI and Corporate Firms Infiltrate Discord, Reddit, WhatsApp

    05/30/2023 4:49:44 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 22 replies
    www.LeeFang.com ^ | 05 10 2023 | Lee Fang
    That anonymous internet persona with an anime cartoon avatar in your Discord chat might actually be a contractor sent to spy on you. Enter the world of “threat intelligence.” It’s the term of art for a growing set of surveillance and security firms that create fake online personas to infiltrate and scrape data from private corners of the internet. The industry provides corporate and government clients with insight into conversations on private, invite-only Discord chats, WhatsApp groups, Reddit forums, and dark web message boards to help those powerful customers keep tabs on a variety of potential threats, from political hacktivists...
  • Feds charge 4 Americans with "election meddling"

    04/23/2023 7:21:02 AM PDT · by FLT-bird · 65 replies
    New York Post ^ | 4/21/2023 | NY Post
    4 ‘African Socialists’ charged with election meddling for Russia after FIB raided their homes Four American socialists have been charged with election meddling and spreading Putin’s propaganda after they were arrested in dramatic FBI raids. The four, are members of the African People’s Socialist Party. Omali Yeshitela, the group’s chairman was one of the 4 Americans indicted Tuesday for “sowing discord, spreading pro-Russia propaganda and interfering in elections within the United States.” The DOJ says that the 81-year-old veteran leader of the far-left group conspired along with three others to help Russian efforts to meddle in elections. Yeshitela has called...
  • TikTok CEO: App Has Never Shared US Data With Chinese Government

    03/21/2023 8:47:17 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 38 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 22 Mar 2023
    TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will tell lawmakers the Chinese-owned short video app with more than 150 million American users has never, and would never, share US user data with the Chinese government amid growing US national security concerns. "TikTok has never shared, or received a request to share, US user data with the Chinese government. Nor would TikTok honor such a request if one were ever made," Chew will testify on Thursday (Mar 23), according to written testimony posted on Tuesday by the House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee. He added that TikTok's parent company ByteDance is not...
  • Spotify CEO Renews Attack on Apple After Musk's Salvo

    11/30/2022 10:13:49 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    Reuters ^ | November 30, 2022
    Spotify's (SPOT.N) CEO Daniel Ek renewed his attack on Apple (AAPL.O) on Wednesday in a series of tweets alleging the iPhone maker "gives itself every advantage while at the same time stifling innovation and hurting consumers". Ek tagged a number of sympathetic business leaders in his 21-tweet thread, including Musk, Microsoft president Brad Smith, and Proton founder Andy Yen. On Monday, the world's richest person Elon Musk criticized the fee Apple charges software developers - including his Twitter business - for in-app purchases, and posted a meme suggesting he was willing to "go to war" rather than pay it.
  • Elon Musk Wants Answers About Apple’s Support Of Censorship

    11/29/2022 7:48:10 PM PST · by bitt · 14 replies
    thefederalist ^ | 11/28/2022 | tristan justice
    New Twitter CEO Elon Musk revealed that Apple threatened to suspend Twitter from its app store, ‘but won’t tell us why.’ Apple suspended most of its advertising on Twitter, according to the blue bird app’s new CEO Elon Musk on Monday. Now, Twitter’s chief is asking questions about Apple’s censorship practices to his more than 119 million followers. “Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter,” Must wrote. “Do they hate free speech in America?” LBRY, a publisher that describes itself as the “bitcoin” of publishing, outlined the company’s own experience with Apple censorship in a response to Musk’s post. “During...
  • A Day of Reparations Stops in Portland

    11/21/2018 5:55:06 PM PST · by GuavaCheesePuff · 11 replies
    PCC ^ | November 21, 2018 | Rory Elliott
    On November 13th, Portland, Oregon was visited by representatives from the Uhuru Movement including: the African People’s Socialist Party, APSP, the Uhuru Solidarity Movement, USM, and the African People’s Solidarity Committee, APSC.
  • Russian operative used U.S. activist groups to spread propaganda, feds say

    07/29/2022 5:40:27 PM PDT · by familyop · 34 replies
    NBC News ^ | July 29, 2022 | Corky Siemaszko
    But shortly after the Ionov indictment was announced, the FBI in Tampa confirmed to local media it had raided headquarters of the Uhuru Movement in St. Petersburg, Florida, in connection with the alleged conspiracy. "The Uhuru Movement is a worldwide organization, under the leadership of African People’s Socialist Party, uniting African people as one people for liberation, social justice, self-reliance and economic development," the group said on its website...Four of the “unindicted co-conspirators” listed but not named in the indictment are U.S. citizens living in St. Petersburg, while the others live in Atlanta and California.
  • Mobile Health Apps Need a Security Check-Up

    12/09/2021 7:26:12 AM PST · by Kaslin · 8 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | December 9, 2021 | Ken Blackwell
    The age of mask and vaccine mandates has sparked important conversations about what employers, businesses and our government can ask about our personal health decisions. These discussions often reveal widespread misconceptions about who is responsible for keeping that information confidential and secure. Clarity on this issue is of utmost importance for consumers, especially with the rise of smartphone apps hungry for health data. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 created national standards for protecting individuals’ health information. Many people assume the law applies to any entity that might request or handle health information. In fact, the...
  • ‘Pingdemic’ puts Britain’s food supply under strain

    07/22/2021 8:09:24 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    NY Post ^ | 07/22/2021 | Reuters
    LONDON — British supermarkets said on Thursday that some products were in short supply and petrol stations had been forced to close after the official health app told hundreds of thousands of workers to isolate following contact with someone with COVID-19. British newspapers carried front-page pictures of empty shelves in supermarkets, declaring a “pingdemic.” Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng told Sky News the government was “very concerned” about the situation but that he did not recognize the network’s characterization of “bare” supermarket shelves. With cases rising to nearly 50,000 day in the United Kingdom, hundreds of thousands of people have been...
  • Joe Biden Revokes Trump Ban on Communist Chinese Apps TikTok, WeChat

    06/09/2021 10:20:08 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 21 replies
    breitbart ^ | 06/09/2021 | Lucas Nolan
    President Joe Biden has signed an executive order revoking former President Trump’s ban on Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat. The Verge reports that President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that revokes former President Trump’s ban on the Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat. Biden will instead be instructing the commerce secretary to investigate apps with ties to foreign adversaries that may pose a risk to American data privacy or national security.
  • Surprise app crashes are plaguing tons of Android users: Here's how to fix them

    03/23/2021 3:29:32 AM PDT · by AbolishCSEU · 16 replies
    Androidpolice.com ^ | 3/22/21 | Michael Crider
    If you're experiencing a bunch of apps suddenly crashing on your recent Samsung phone, you're not alone. This afternoon US time, reports from dozens, then hundreds of users on the Samsung subreddit started coming in, complaining of apps crashing on their phones, constantly and seemingly at random. It's causing some major headaches.
  • They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

    02/06/2021 10:10:11 AM PST · by bitt · 134 replies
    nytimes ^ | 2/5/2021 | By Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson
    Times Opinion was able to identify individuals from a trove of leaked smartphone location data. In 2019, a source came to us with a digital file containing the precise locations of more than 12 million individual smartphones for several months in 2016 and 2017. The data is supposed to be anonymous, but it isn’t. We found celebrities, Pentagon officials and average Americans. It became clear that this data — collected by smartphone apps and then fed into a dizzyingly complex digital advertising ecosystem — was a liability to national security, to free assembly and to citizens living mundane lives. It...
  • Eric Trump Accuses DNC Of Spamming Voter Fraud Hotline

    11/07/2020 1:42:16 PM PST · by familyop · 15 replies
    OAN Newsroom ^ | November 7, 2020 | OAN Newsroom
    Eric Trump sounded the alarm on the Democrat National Convention and accused the left of blocking citizens’ ability to report voting irregularities. In a tweet shared Friday, the President’s son accused the DNC of attempting to hijack the Trump campaign’s “voter fraud hotline,” and said they may have something to hide. The @DNC is spamming our voter fraud hotline to bog down the thousands of complaints we are receiving! Wonder what they have to hide. — Eric Trump (@EricTrump) November 7, 2020 He added the spam calls were blocking thousands of complaints the Trump campaign has been receiving. This came...
  • Trump Confronts Chinese Regime’s Technological Invasion - Chinese apps used to spy on and hack Americans.

    08/15/2020 10:31:31 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 1 replies
    Frontpage Mag ^ | 08/15/2020 | Joseph Klein
    The Chinese communist empire has weaponized social media, telecommunications and cloud computing to expand the reach of its infiltration and surveillance capabilities way beyond its borders. Americans’ personal data and intellectual property are prime targets for the regime’s malign activities, which have gone on for decades without any blowbacks of consequence. In fact, globalists have encouraged the integration of China into the world economy, falling prey to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu’s stratagem that “All warfare is based on deception.” But the time has finally arrived for China to pay the piper, thanks to President Trump. The Trump...
  • Here we go again – more than two dozen Android apps caught stealing your data

    07/07/2020 9:30:25 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 20 replies
    BGR ^ | 07/07/2020 | Andy Meek
    Evina, a French cybersecurity firm, disclosed this news in recent weeks, with its report that a single threat group developed the batch of apps that were made to look like everything from wallpaper and flashlight apps to mobile games. However, all the apps had the same goal, as Evina explains in its report of the fraud. “When an application is launched on your phone, the malware queries the application name,” the company explains. “If it is a Facebook application, the malware will launch a browser that loads Facebook at the same time. The browser is displayed in the foreground which...