USA entered the polls this week to vote in a high-stakes midterm election. With public confidence in electoral systems at an all-time low, Secret voting is now more important than ever. We also reviewed a flawed app built by famous right wing provocateurs was used to challenge hundreds of thousands of voter registrations.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Justice announced that a Georgia man pleads guilty to wire fraud nine years after stealing over 50,000 bitcoins from Silk Road, the legendary dark web marketplace. You may have heard that things are chaotic on Twitter, with a wave of corporate impersonations plaguing the platform hours after rolling out a service that allows anyone to pay $8 a month to receive marked with a green check mark indicating that they are “verified”. It’s a gift for scammers and scammers of all shades.
New analysis shows that two large ships, with their trackers turned off, were discovered near the Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the days before the gas leak was discovered. Officials suspect sabotage, and NATO is investigating. In addition, Russian military hackers are around a new strategy favors faster attacks with more immediate results.
And there’s much more. Each week, we highlight news that we don’t cover in depth. Click on the titles below to read the full stories.
This week saw even more chaos on Twitter as security executives resigned after clashing with their new boss, Elon Musk, over how the company must respond. its obligations to the Federal Trade Commission. After several data breaches in 2009, Twitter agreed to send regular reports on its privacy practices under the terms of a 2011 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. Company settled with the FTC earlier this year after it was discovered serving ads to users’ emails and phone numbers that people provided as part of their security measures. If Twitter fails to live up to its commitments to the agency, the FTC could fine the company billions of dollars.
On Wednesday, the day before Twitter was due to file a report with the FTC, Twitter’s chief information security officer, chief privacy officer, and chief compliance officer quit. Head of Corporate Safety and Reliability also left the company tomorrow.
In a Slack Twitter message obtained by The Verge, an attorney in the privacy group wrote that engineers may be required to “self-certify” that their projects are in compliance with the agreement, burden engineers with “personal, professional, and legal risks. The employee added that Alex Spiro, Musk’s attorney, told workers that “Elon put rockets into space – he’s not afraid of the FTC.”
The resignations come as the company begins to battle a wave of corporate impersonators who have fooled the company’s new paid verification system within hours of its launch.
About 60 of Maricopa County’s 223 polling places reported technical problems on Election Day, upsetting voters and fueling voter fraud schemes. Technicians have been dispatched to polling places across Arizona’s largest county on Tuesday to repair dozens of malfunctioning vote counting machines. Elections officials urged frustrated voters to cast their ballots at other locations or drop their ballots in the safe box to be counted later. “People are still voting. No one is disenfranchised,” Bill Gates, chairman of the Maricopa County board of supervisors, told reporters Tuesday morning.
But that hasn’t kept right-wing influencers, including former US president Donald Trump, from using the glitch. alleging that the vote was suppressed. Researchers at the University of Washington found online conversation about tabulating problems started trending after Republican activist Charlie Kirk posted about them; later in the day, Trump took to Truth Social to suggest, without evidence, that only “republican areas” would be affected by the lapses. Around 2:30 p.m. local time, officials in Arizona announced they had fixed the problem by changing the machine’s printer settings.
A Russian-Canadian citizen named Mikhail Vasiliev was arrested in Canada on Wednesday for allegedly participating in the LockBit ransomware campaign, according to the US Department of Justice and Europol. LockBit has claimed at least 1,000 victims, according to Deep Instinct’s 2022 Interim Cyber Threat Report, and is responsible for about 44% of ransomware campaigns this year. Vasiliev was charged with “conspiracy to intentionally damage protected computers and transfer a ransom demand” and is currently in Canada awaiting extradition to the United States. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison.
A security issue delayed a record $2.04 billion Powerball drawing after an unnamed country failed to submit proper data and complete security protocols. According to the Multistate Lottery Association, which operates Powerball, one of the regional lottery committees was unable to complete tabulating their ticket sales and sales data during Monday night’s drawing time. The 10-hour delay ended Tuesday with a single winner buying a ticket at Joe’s Service Center, a gas station in Altadena, California, state lottery officials said. speak.
