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Hacker Known as Max Is a 55-Year-Old Woman, Prosecutors Say Bloomberg 1 hr ago © Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg Epstein Friend Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested By FBI (Bloomberg) -- Alla Witte’s plans for a new career as a computer programmer included helping clients make enough money to see the world, according to YouTube videos and social media posts. She was in her late 40s with a degree in applied mathematics and an itch to do computer programming. But there was a darker side to Witte�...

Hacker known as Max is a 55-year-old woman from Russia now being held in Cleveland, U.S. says BLOOMBERG The U.S. Department of Justice seal Alla Wittes plans for a new career as a computer programmer included helping clients make enough money to see the world, according to YouTube videos and social media posts. She was in her late 40s with a degree in applied mathematics and an itch to do computer programming. But there was a darker side to Wittes interest in computers, according to federal pro...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) is once again at the center of a major political debate, with momentum building for an overhaul of the statute that many view as having served a critical role in the rise of big tech and social media. On March 25, the heads of the big tech trio Facebook, Google and Twitter testified before the House Commerce Committee, defending their Internet platforms against fierce attacks from la...

Wed, Apr 14th 2021 10:48am — Eric Goldman Last week, we had a post about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas very weird statement in a concurrence on mooting an unrelated case, in which he seemed to attack free speech and Section 230. Law professor Eric Goldman has written up an incredibly thorough response to Thomas statement that we thought the Techdirt community might appreciate, and so were reposting in here. Last week, the Supreme Court vacated the Second Circuit’s Knight v. Trump ru...

SolarWinds Attackers Focused on Cyber and Tech Firms Whether it was opportunity, strategy or sheer chutzpah, the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive cyber-attack revealed last month focused particular attention on technology companies, including cyber-security firms entrusted to find malicious activity in their clients’ networks. Four cyber-security companies announced this week that they had been targeted as part of the attack, adding to a list of at least eight other tech companies t...

SolarWinds Attackers Hit Strategic Targets: Cyber and Tech Firms Four cybersecurity companies announced this week that they had been targeted as part of the attack, adding to a list of at least eight other tech firms. Bloomberg | Jan 29, 2021 Kartikay Mehrotra and Alyza Sebenius (Bloomberg) -- Whether it was opportunity, strategy or sheer chutzpah, the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive cyber-attack revealed last month focused particular attention on technology companies, includi...

Prolific Botnet Is Disrupted by Six-Nation Enforcement Team Bloomberg 1/28/2021 Kartikay Mehrotra © Bloomberg A pedestrian passes outside the Europol headquarters in The Hague, Netherlands, on Tuesday, March 20, 2018. Europol Executive Director Rob Wainwright is leaving the EU intelligence agency he’s led for almost a decade to help run Deloitte LLPs cybersecurity practice, as companies wake up to the growing “systemic” threat of cyber crime. (Bloomberg) -- A law enfo...

Suspected Russian hackers targeted the cybersecurity company Malwarebytes Inc in the course of a sprawling cyberattack that targeted US government agencies and companies.

Internal emails stolen in hack targeting cybersecurity company Malwarebytes Cybersecurity software firm Malwarebytes Inc. has been hacked and internal emails stolen. The hack, revealed today, is being attributed to the nation-state actor implicated in the Solar Winds Worldwide LLC breach, though Malwarebytes noted that it doesn’t use Solar Winds products itself. The intrusion vector involved attackers abusing applications with privileged access to Microsoft Office 36...

MANHATTAN (CN) — A pastor who calls himself a “former homosexual” appeared unlikely Thursday to win a second chance at suing the website Vimeo for removing his posts about conversion therapy.  At a Second Circuit hearing held virtually this morning, U.S. Circuit Judge Rosemary S. Pooler pressed for evidence, “even threadbare,” of James Domen’s discrimination claims. Nada Higuera argued for the pastor that Vimeo’s actions were “not against content, but against James Domen himsel...