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The French newspaper Le Monde said it has received evidence of the involvement of the cybercriminals from APT28 (also known as Fancy Bear) and Sandworm in hacking the email of the campaign headquarters of French President Emmanuel Macron in 2017. Because of the cyberattack, the criminals uploaded tens of thousands …

Twitter management has revised its decision to mass “clean” the social network of outdated pages. The reason is the numerous complaints from users about the inability to perpetuate the accounts of deceased people. Recently, the Twitter administration began to send notifications to users who have not logged into their accounts …

The creator of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee introduced the “Network Contract” – an action plan to protect the Internet from political manipulation, fakes, privacy violations and other harmful influences. A “contract for the Web” requires governments, companies, and individuals to make specific commitments to protect the network from …

Telegram developer Pavel Durov criticized WhatsApp for numerous backdoors and vulnerabilities and urged users to remove the messenger. Earlier this week, it was reported that the WhatsApp messenger recently fixed a critical error that could allow attackers to remotely compromise a device and steal protected chat messages and files. The …

Facebook users for iOS found that the application quietly activates the camera on their devices while they flip through a feed or view photos on a social network and now fear that Facebook monitors them through the camera. The user Joshua Maddux was the first who accidentally turned attention to …

A team of specialists from Tokyo University of Telecommunications (Japan) and the University of Michigan (USA) have developed a method that allows sending voice commands to digital assistants with the use of a laser. Alexa and Siri can now be tricked with a laser. Scientists call this fantastic vulnerability “Light …

On Friday, Thai authorities opened a center of state control over a “wide range of online content.” The country’s prime minister equated public criticism of the government, the military, or the royal family with cybercrime. Criticism of power is now considered to be fake news. Thai government officials believe that …

Cyber-cracker with the pseudonym Gnosticplayers reported about hacking several applications of the largest American online game developer Zynga Inc. The hacker announced the theft of data from 218 million users. The leak affected all Android and iOS users who installed the Words With Friends puzzle game and registered in it …

On September 24, US President Donald Trump made a speech at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly in New York. During the cadence, this is Trump’s third big speech at the United Nations. It is noteworthy that after his speech, the world’s largest technology companies included in the …

As part of the deal with the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has blocked tens of thousands of apps due to privacy issues. Last year’s Cambridge Analytica scandal continues to affect Facebook’s reputation, and the company continues to struggle with its consequences. Recalling, at that time was detected an information leak …