Gillmor Gang: Win Win
Just finished a Twitter Spaces session. It is an engaging platform, somewhat clunky in feature set but easily a tie overall with Clubhouse. I don’t see this as a horse race, however, more as cooperating teams fleshing out a platform where both.....»»
Criminal Gang DarkSide Linked to Cyberattack That Forced U.S. Gas Pipeline Shutdown
The pipeline delivers roughly 45% of fuel consumed on the East Coast (NEW YORK) — The cyberextortion attempt that has forced the shutdown of a vital U.S. pipeline was carried out by a criminal gang known as DarkSide that cultivates.....»»
FBI and Australian Police Ran an Encrypted Chat Platform To Catch Criminal Gangs
The FBI and Australian Federal Police ran an encrypted chat platform and intercepted secret messages between criminal gang members from all over the world for more than three years. From a report: Named Operation Ironside (AFP) / Trojan Shield (FBI,.....»»
Correcting misperceptions about, and increasing empathy for, migrants
Many mainstream depictions of immigration at the southern border of the United States paint a dark picture, eliciting imagery of violent gang members and child trafficking. But how many undocumented immigrants are really involved in this kind of acti.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Fractured Fairy Tales
1971 is the name of the year and an Apple TV+ documentary series billed as The Year That Music Changed Everything. It’s also the number of hours the former President kept up his blog From the Desk Of. No, that’s not true. But it is satisf.....»»
FBI Charges Woman With Writing Code For "Trickbot" Ransomware Gang
Slashdot reader Charlotte Web summarizes a Department of Justice press release: The U.S. Department of Justice says "millions" of computers around the world were infected with the Trickbot malware, which was used "to harvest banking credentials and d.....»»
Attack on meat supplier came from REvil, ransomware’s most cutthroat gang
Criminals use high-pressure tactics to extort victims. Enlarge / Ransomware (credit: Getty Images) The cyberattack that halted some operations at the world’s biggest meat processor this week was the work of REvil, a ransomware franchise know.....»»
Attack on meat supplier came from REvil, ransomware’s most cut-throat gang
Criminals use high-pressure tactics to extort victims. Enlarge / Ransomware (credit: Getty Images) The cyberattack that halted some operations at the world’s biggest meat processor this week was the work of REvil, a ransomware franchise that.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Play It Again
For the past several months or so, I’ve been writing an accompanying post to editions of the Gillmor Gang. Due to production issues, I’m usually at least a week behind the recording session for the target show. This originally seemed like.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Nothing was delivered
Somehow it’s Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday this week. Some of you may not think that’s a big deal, but I do. The fact of his talent pretty much drowns out most other ideas of what to write about, but here’s to the birthday boy. Ke.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Nothing Was Delivered
Somehow it’s Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday this week. Some of you may not think that’s a big deal, but I do. The fact of his talent pretty much drowns out most other ideas of what to write about, but here’s to the birthday boy. Ke.....»»
See a glittering gang of galaxies in this week’s Hubble image
This week's Hubble image shows a glittering host of galaxies or all shapes and sizes, dominated by the galaxy cluster ACO S 295......»»
FBI Says Conti Ransomware Gang Has Hit 16 US Health and Emergency Networks
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that the same group of online extortionists blamed for striking the Irish health system last week have also hit at least 16 U.S. medical and first response networks in the past year. From a report: In an alert.....»»
Study on intermittency in gang membership underscores value of preventing youth from rejoining gangs
Research has shown that joining a gang is associated with increased criminal behavior. A new study examined whether the intermittent nature of gang membership affects offending. Researchers sought to determine whether the association with increased o.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Party Line
In the early days of social media, all things seemed possible. Twitter was this weird reboot of blogs, with a social layer atop an RSS feed that gave authority to last in/first out musings by providing data not just about read or unread but shared by.....»»
Darkside Ransomware Gang Says It Lost Control of Its Servers, Money a Day After Biden Threat
A day after US President Joe Biden said the US plans to disrupt the hackers behind the Colonial Pipeline cyberattack, the operator of the Darkside ransomware said the group lost control of its web servers and some of the funds it made from ransom pay.....»»
US fuel pipeline "paid hackers $5m in ransom"
Reports say Colonial Pipeline paid cyber-criminal gang DarkSide a ransom to prevent a data leak......»»
Gillmor Gang: When Doves Cry
Usually we wait a few days until a show has settled. While we stall, our producer and director Tina Chase Gillmor scours the recording for short clips that give a sense of the flavor and tenor of the conversation. This show, recorded a little more th.....»»
Ransomware crooks post cops’ psych evaluations after talks with DC police stall
Babuk demands $4 million, Metropolitan Police Department offers $100,000. Enlarge (credit: carlballou / Getty Images) A ransomware gang that hacked the District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in April posted personnel rec.....»»
Gillmor Gang: Walk the Dinosaur
Clubhouse hosted another excellent conversation between Josh Constine and Facebook’s audio czar Fidji Simo. The format continues to sparkle, as I was once again forced to choose between MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O’Donnell an.....»»
Ransomware Gang Threatens To Expose Police Informants If Ransom Is Not Paid
An anonymous reader writes: A ransomware gang is threatening to leak sensitive police files that may expose police investigations and informants unless the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia agrees to pay a ransom demand. A gr.....»»