jsrailton

jsrailton, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to environment

Reading this🧵? Your blood probably contains some amount of toxic #foreverchemicals made by #3m

Enough to spike your risk of cancers & illnesses?

Without a blood test, you have no idea.

Why is their toxin running in your veins?

Well, 3M & #dupont kept the harms secret even as their toxins were incorporated into...everything.

From french fry bags to chairs.

They gaslit their own scientists.

& regularly dumped, creating toxic zones. 1/

https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story

#environment #pollution

jsrailton, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to Health

Even for cancer and transplant patients.

We are speeding into idiocracy.

#cancer #transplantation #immunocompromised #health #healthcare #masks #northcarolina

jsrailton, 7 days ago to infosec

FINALLY: a 🇺🇸US official speaks the truth security researchers keep warning about...

Americans' movements being tracked with well-known weaknesses that US telcos aren't fixing.

It's remarkable how bad the problem with #SS7 & #Diameter is.

Must-read story by @josephcox
https://www.404media.co/cyber-official-speaks-out-reveals-mobile-network-attacks-in-u-s/

#infosec #cybersecurity #hacking #intelligence #surveillance #espionage

jsrailton, 14 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to psychology

I can confidently diagnose #betterhelp as sociopaths.

Promised therapy customers privacy...then gave their mental health info to advertisers.

Victims get less than ten bucks each.

Company made billion+ in revenue last year alone.

In a just society with good privacy laws, they'd face existential civil & criminal consequences.

https://www.wcnc.com/article/news/nation-world/betterhelp-therapy-class-action-settlement-refund/507-b4ef5e0f-c722-4562-95e9-c3cdd7738d1a

#therapy #psychology #privacy #psychotherapy #mentalhealth #telehealth #medicine #HIPAA #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #facebook #meta

jsrailton, 17 days ago to Toronto

My colleague Mitchell & partner just escorted a family of lost geese to the lake.

Safely navigating 2km of downtown #Toronto took 2 hours.

At one point, police stepped in to block traffic.

Strangers jumped in to help too.

He jokes: at @citizenlab we don't just help humans!

#wildlife #birds #birding #goose #Canada

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jsrailton, 17 days ago to egypt

All shipping traffic stopped on the #Bosphorus Strait.

Channel connects Black Sea & Mediterranean is busiest in the world.

Why? Bulk carrier #Alexis is grounded across northbound shipping lane.

Headed to #Egypt from #Ukraine.

Turkish maritime authorities say on Twitter that they suspect mechanical failure.

#turkey #shipping #maritime #istanbul #blacksea

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jsrailton, 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to infosec

Big #VPN companies are churning out bullshit "security advice" on an industrial scale.

It's a marketing funnel that targets those seeking help.

And then misinforms them.

I wish it stopped there

The nonsense makes its way to victims of spyware, where misinformation can have life, death and liberty impacting consequences.

#infosec #cybersecurity #malware #IT #pegasus #predator #spyware #malware

jsrailton, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to hacking

BREAKING: #Israeli private investigator arrested for cyberespionage on behalf of American PR firm.

Caught by UK under #RedNotice from 🇺🇸US while boarding a flight.

BIG TWIST in a wild case that began w/our @citizenlab investigation into indian hack-for-hire group #belltrox

Sound familiar?

Because Amit Forlit is the second PI from #Israel arrested in similar way for this case.

First = convicted.

https://www.reuters.com/world/israeli-private-eye-arrested-uk-over-alleged-hacking-us-pr-firm-2024-05-02/

#hacking #cybersecurity #infosec #malware #espionage #intelligence

jsrailton, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to poland

BREAKING: #Pegasus spyware abused in 🇵🇱#Poland under previous PiS-party government, confirms the new PM Donald Tusk

"Very, very long" victim list.

Vindication.

When we @citizenlab first confirmed the hacking in 2021 both we & victims were targeted w/extensive harassment & disinformation.

REPORT: https://apnews.com/article/poland-government-pegasus-spyware-tusk-duda-78420fc7099401926d28b5be98669192

#cybersecurity #infosec #spyware #hacking #surveillance #malware #NSOGroup #authoritarianism #democracy #europe

jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

NEW: I found 1000s of shady PDFs hosted on .gov websites of states, universities, defense contractors, etc.

It was a clever SEO spam operation, but the access could have been exploited for more nefarious things. 1/

@lorenzofb has the writeup

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/02/scammers-publish-ads-for-hacking-services-on-government-websites/

#cybersecurity #spam #SEO #google #instagram #tiktok #fraud

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jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

NEW: heard about #Triangulation #spyware? Something about #Kaspersky?

Or the #FSB waxing paranoid about #Apple?

What does it all mean?

Well, my @citizenlab colleague Bill Marczak has an deliciously spicy take on the unfolding saga.

Plus some tips for defenders.

#cybersecurity #hacking #APT

https://medium.com/@billmarczak/triangulation-did-the-nsa-fail-to-learn-the-lessons-of-nso-5f36d251d02e

jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

Remember Tara Reade?

The one-time #Biden accuser is live on 🇷🇺Russian State TV announcing that she's defected.

Sitting with Maria Butina whom she refers to as a friend.

#Russia #Propaganda #disinformation

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jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

Notice how fast alleged medical concern for #Trans youth became... smash rainbow displays at Target?

This is a playbook.

It must be forcefully resisted.

jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

Life in prison for #gay sex in #Uganda.

American evangelical extremists got the ear of Uganda's dictator & helped this happen

They have the same goals for people that are #queer in 🇺🇸America.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/world/africa/uganda-anti-gay-bill.html

jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

Proven way to stop an autocrat?

Don't be a spoiler candidate like this guy.

#elections #Democrats #Republicans

jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

Whenever I see #BorisJohnson
I wonder: anybody check that phone for #Pegasus etc. lately?

#spyware #cybersecurity #UK #intelligence

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jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

Countdown Florida trying to pass a law absolving #Neuralink of responsibility for sudden death.

#FDA #Neuroscience #medicine #neurology

jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

They just made it up.

The #VPN industry is a scourge.

Not content with tricking people into paying for security talismans by misrepresenting what VPNs do..., they are SEO-optimizing fake #cybersecurity advice to drive signups.

The perverse thing is that the high risk people like dissidents & journalists that need to get safer from Predator not only won't be.helped, but real advice is getting drowned out.

Glad to see @maldr0id call it out. #hacking #spyware #Predator #malware #security

jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

Sedition has consequences.

18 years of prison for Elmer Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers leader.

First sentence in the #OathKeepers & #ProudBoys #Jan6 #sedition cases

Story: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/politics/oath-keepers-stewart-rhodes-sentenced.html

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jsrailton, 11 months ago to random

Mastodon friends. I've got a search results problem.

When you search for me by name none of the results are... me.

They are all scraped "unofficial mirrors"

Thoughts on how to fix this?

It's a double issue:

1 - how to get my own correct result to show.

2- flag these empty mirrors as spam

jsrailton, 1 year ago to random

#Trump had Murdoch.

#DeSantis has #Musk.

jsrailton, 1 year ago to random

NSO Group sharing password tips is like a landmine manufacturer posting first aid advice for papecuts.

#Pegasus #spyware

jsrailton, 1 year ago to internet

#Musk defending caving to #censorship pressure:

"But they threatened to block us"

Autocrats will read this as a playbook.

#twitter

jsrailton, 1 year ago to random

Late to the party here, but the chance that new .zip and .mov domains mostly get used for malware attacks is 100%

Not sure who asked for this, but this is a bad move.

Block it all.

This sort of thing undermines our collective #cybersecurity & is fundamentally unhelpful.

jsrailton, 1 year ago to random

Spate of spurious claims about #encrypted messaging apps lately.

Unless they come with receipts, don't amplify.

Realtalk: People panicking & switching to a less safe app = godsend to intelligence services like Russia.

Don't get played.

#encryption #e2ee #security #privacy #cybersecurity