United States (FEE) – Pay attention to the preferred denomination of ransom money, and you see the future of money and payment systems. here’s a new wrinkle in the story of one of the largest data breaches in history. The hack…
United States (Sputnik) – Hackers reportedly exploited a website application weakness to access the personal information of 143 million US customers. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Consumer credit reporting agency Equifax said that hackers exploited a website application weakness to access the personal…
(Sputnik) – Taking to an underground marketplace called RaidForums, a dark web vendor going by the pseudonym “Logan” has reportedly sold millions of voter records from nine states. The records include voters’ first, middle and last names, voter IDs, birth dates,…
World (Sputnik) – An expansive, fast-moving cyber-attack has disabled hospitals, universities and communications companies across the UK, Europe and as far as Asia. Russian-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab reports that as many as 74 countries have been hit by the malware,…
(TFC) – There were a lot of questions following the ‘terrorist attack” in San Bernardino in December of 2015. Reports of multiple shooters, lack of evidence and information from official sources, and the suspicious deaths of the accused terrorist aside, the…
France (Sputnik) – A significant leak containing tens of thousands of emails, pictures and file attachments from French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been publicized for the world to see, roughly 36 hours before the people of France select their next…
United States (Sputnik) – A hacking group threatens to wipe data from over 300 million Apple devices unless the US technology giant pays a ransom, the Motherboard news portal reported Tuesday. The hackers identified as “Turkish Crime Family” demanded Apple to pay…
United States (Sputnik) – While the US Justice Department is unleashing its righteous fury against two Russian intelligence operatives allegedly involved in the hacking of half a billion Yahoo accounts, none of today’s US media coverage mentioned that one of the culprits…
On Monday, Wikileaks released a batch of almost 58,000 emails sent and received by Turkish president Recep Erdogan’s son-in-law Berat Albayrak.
The release, termed by Wikileaks as ‘Berat’s box’ includes thousands of emails detailing Albayrak’s dealings as the Turkish Minister of Energy. The emails encompass a span of sixteen years beginning April of 2000 until September of this year. Wikileaks was given the database of emails by a Turkish Marxist-Leninist ‘hacktivist’ group known as RedHack.
RedHack had initially announced that they had obtained the emails in September but their social media accounts and pages containing news of the hack were taken down. Originally the group threatened to release the emails if the Erdogan government wouldn’t release Alp Altınörs, a member of the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) and a journalist named Aslı Erdogan. Suspected members of RedHack have been threatened since September by the government and subjected to the ongoing post-coup torture.
An initiative in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, seeks to combine political knowledge with hacker culture to democratize and strengthen development.
The Instituto Cidade Democrática (Democratic City Institute), in Brazil, is about to launch and coordinate a very interesting initiative, part of the public project Redes e Ruas (Streets and Networks) of the Municipality of São Paulo, called Laboratórios Livres de Participação Social (Free Labs for Social Participation).
The premise of the project is to unveil the universe of political participation in the internet by experimenting with four free applications that put collective intelligence at the service of communities.
Ásta Guðrún Helgadóttir reports from a hackers’ gathering where things are broken to be fixed and made better.
