Twitter expands its crackdown on trolling and hate
Twitter is to expand its Safety Mode feature, which lets users temporarily block accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets. The system will flag accounts using hateful remarks, or those bombarding people with uninvited comments, and block them for seven days. Half of the platform's users in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland will now have access, and they can also now use a companion feature called Proactive Safety Mode - this will proactively identify potentially harmful replies and prompt people to consider enabling the mode. The firm said it had added this based on feedback from some users in the initial trial, who wanted help identifying unwelcome interactions. The Safety Mode feature can be turned on in settings, and the system will assess both the tweet's content and the relationship between the tweet author and replier. Accounts that user follows or frequently interacts with will not be auto blocked.
The firm said it will collect more insights on how the feature is working and potentially incorporate additional improvements. Twitter has struggled to deal with abuse and harassment on its platform and now faces closer scrutiny from regulators.
In January, a French court ruled that Twitter must show exactly how it combats online attacks, while the UK is preparing legislation to force all social media sites to act swiftly on hate speech or face fines. In response to its tweet announcing the expanded rollout, many users claimed that their accounts had been suspended for no reason. Like all social media platforms, Twitter relies on a combination of automated and human moderation.
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If privacy is your crown jewel, why do you exchange it for shiny objects then?
Staying off the grid over worries about your privacy? That’s what crazy people do, longtime cybersecurity expert Joel Fulton told CyberNews and shared some advice on how to stay safe online without sacrificing the benefits of technology.
“Privacy is under assault,” Joel Fulton, the Co-Founder and CEO of Lucidum, once told CyberNews. It’s a high-value target for malicious hackers, employers, governments, e-commerce sites, and the most prominent “free” software apps and tool providers.
Thousands of laws guard our data, but that doesn’t do the trick, does it?
The internet was considered free for many years until it dawned on us that it is quite the opposite. We pay for “free” services with something more valuable than money - our privacy. Different surveys show that privacy concerns are growing. But if privacy is indeed our crown jewel, why do we still keep trading it for some shiny objects?
Fulton has spent two decades in the cybersecurity industry and held leadership positions at Spunk, Symantec, Google, Starbucks, and Boeing. He believes consumers are still pretty ignorant about the value of their privacy and are willing to discuss the trade-off. I virtually sat down with Fulton to discuss why we keep choosing convenience over privacy over and over again.
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Iranian Hackers Targeting VMware Horizon Log4j Flaws to Deploy Ransomware
A "potentially destructive actor" aligned with the government of Iran is actively exploiting the well-known Log4j vulnerability to infect unpatched VMware Horizon servers with ransomware.
Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne dubbed the group "TunnelVision" owing to their heavy reliance on tunneling tools, with overlaps in tactics observed to that of a broader group tracked under the moniker Phosphorus as well as Charming Kitten and Nemesis Kitten.
"TunnelVision activities are characterized by wide-exploitation of 1-day vulnerabilities in target regions," SentinelOne researchers Amitai Ben Shushan Ehrlich and Yair Rigevsky said in a report, with the intrusions detected in the Middle East and the U.S.
Also observed alongside Log4Shell is the exploitation of Fortinet FortiOS path traversal flaw (CVE-2018-13379) and the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerability to gain initial access into the target networks for post-exploitation.
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