av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 10, 2021 | Lästips
Jan. 6, 2021, was always on the country’s radar.
Two runoff elections that would determine control of the Senate still had not been decided as Tuesday became Wednesday. A joint session of Congress convened to certify Joe Biden’s electoral-vote win while thousands gathered on the Mall in support of President Trump, who continued to falsely claim that the election was stolen from him.
As the scene in D.C. continued to darken, smaller demonstrations across the nation also flared, forcing officials in several statehouses to evacuate.
This is how the day unfolded.
Washington Post
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 5, 2021 | Lästips
Det är ingen smickrande lista – Wireds The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2020. Det är säkert inte smickrande heller, för de som är med på listan att vara med en lista med de som är med på listan, sällskapet.
FOR MANY OF us, 2020 has been a very dangerous year. Alongside the usual headline grabbers like wars, violent crime, and terrorism, we also faced more insidious, creeping threats: a pandemic that has claimed more than 300,000 American lives, and the lives of 1.5 million people worldwide, thanks in part to waves of viral lies dismissing Covid-19’s deathly serious effects. Hackers who have spied on, attacked, and extorted countless companies and government institutions—including even hospitals—during a global health crisis. And a US president who has sought to fundamentally undermine both the response to the Covid-19 pandemic and democracy itself with nakedly self-serving, corrosive misinformation.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | jan 1, 2021 | Lästips
I augusti 2014 kom chockbeskedet – det komiska geniet Robin Williams, 63, var död. Han hade tagit sitt eget liv i den egna bostaden i Marin County i Kalifornien.
Kort efter beskedet startade spekulationer om att Williams återfallit i drogmissbruk men det skulle visa sig att komikern led av Lewy body dementia (LBD). En sjukdom kan drabbas av minnesförluster, sömnlöshet, hallucinationer, oro och ångest.
Susan Schneider Williams watched her husband suffer with undiagnosed Lewy body dementia before he killed himself in 2014. Her new film tries to educate others about the condition – and put to rest assumptions about his death.
After Robin Williams died in August 2014, aged 63, a lot of people had a lot of things to say about him. There was the predictable speculation about why a hugely beloved and seemingly healthy Hollywood star would end his own life, with some confidently stating that he was depressed or had succumbed to old addictions.
Others talked, with more evidence, about Williams as a comic genius (Mork & Mindy, Mrs Doubtfire, The Birdcage, Aladdin); a brilliant dramatic actor (Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, Good Will Hunting, One Hour Photo); and both (Good Morning, Vietnam; The Fisher King). One thing everyone agreed on was that he had an extraordinary mind. Comedians spoke about how no one thought faster on stage than Williams; those who made movies with him said he never did the same take twice, always ad-libbing and getting funnier each time.
Källa: Robin Williams’s widow: ’There were so many misunderstandings about what had happened to him’
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 29, 2020 | Lästips
Amerikanska Wired ger igenom årets värsta intrång, hack.
WHAT A WAY to kick off a new decade. 2020 showcased all of the digital risks and cybersecurity woes you’ve come to expect in the modern era, but this year was unique in the ways Covid-19 radically and tragically transformed life around the world. The pandemic also created unprecedented conditions in cyberspace, reshaping networks by pushing people to work from home en masse, creating a scramble to access vaccine research by any means, generating new fodder for criminals to launch extortion attempts and scams, and producing novel opportunities for nation-state espionage.
Here’s WIRED’s look back at this strange year and the breaches, data exposures, ransomware attacks, state-sponsored campaigns, and digital madness that shaped it. Stay safe out there in 2021.
Källa: The Worst Hacks of 2020, a Surreal Pandemic Year
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 29, 2020 | Lästips
Safe-Inet, VPN, skulle var ett säkert, absolut säkert sätt att dölja sina aktiviteter ute på nätet och VPN-lösningen blev snabbt populär bland kriminella. Tisdagen före julhelgen slog Eurpol till tillsammans med en rad polismyndigheter. Wired har hela historien.
AS 2020 COMES to a close, it is perhaps only fitting that the US government and private sector are both scrambling to grasp and mitigate the fallout of a massive hacking spree widely attributed to Russia. There will be more news to come about the SolarWinds supply chain attack and possible other elements of the extensive campaign, but in the meantime officials, security practitioners, and researchers are all puzzling over questions of where to draw the line on global espionage and how to deter destructive and otherwise unacceptable hacking.
To understand where things stand today, it’s important to take a look back at the Trump administration’s approach to cybersecurity policy, its merits (some of them accidental), and its shortcomings. Read on below for president-elect Joe Biden’s first substantive commentary on how his administration may approach the increasingly crucial, yet tricky, question of how to enforce effective global norms in cyberspace.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 25, 2020 | Lästips
Under Trumps tid i Vita Huset så har en lång rad myndigheter, övervakningsorganisationer och funktioner monterats ned helt eller har fått se sina anslag kraftigt nedskurna. Ett sådant område är övervakningen av datorsystem. Trump sparkade chefen för the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration (CISA) och har upprepade gånger tonmat ned attacks rich intrång – Solarwinds är bara det senaste exemplet.
Amerikanska Wired har granskat och gått ungdom faran med att montera ned skyddet mot dataattacker.
WHEN IT COMES to cybersecurity policy, the Trump administration’s head and body have rarely seemed to agree. Take the past two months, for instance. In late October, the president made an absurd declaration at a campaign rally that “nobody gets hacked.” That same week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration (CISA), Justice Department, and Treasury Department all took separate, landmark steps to counter Russian hacking—unsealing an indictment against six hackers in Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, imposing new sanctions on the Moscow research institute responsible for a uniquely dangerous piece of malware, and warning of an ongoing hacking campaign believed to be carried out by the FSB.
A few weeks later, Donald Trump lost the election and laid the blame on false conspiracy theories about electoral hacking and fraud. When CISA released a statement lauding the election as the ”most secure in American history,” contradicting the president’s claims, Trump summarily fired CISA director Chris Krebs. This year was finally capped off by revelations of a disastrous hacking campaign that hijacked the software updates of IT management firm SolarWinds to breach a slew of federal agencies and tech firms. Now, even as attorney general William Barr and secretary of state Mike Pompeo have pointed to Russia as the culprit, Trump has responded by downplaying the crisis, suggesting intrusions might have been carried out by China instead.
Wired
