Craig Timberg

More than 5,000 pages of documents from a Moscow-based contractor offer glimpse into planning and training that would allow Russia’s intelligence agencies and hacking groups to find vulnerabilities, coordinate attacks and control online activity.

The methodology behind the examination of data purportedly from Hunter Biden’s laptop.

The examination confirmed that nearly 22,000 emails carried cryptographic signs attesting to their validity. But the data had been so mishandled over the years that it was impossible to reach a general conclusion about its contents.

The kind of forensic examination that security experts conducted on data purportedly from the laptop computer of Hunter Biden creates privacy risks, one of the experts says.

Sen. Richard J. Durbin, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, dismissed Sen. Josh Hawley’s allegations that claimed “an alarming pattern when it comes to Judge Jackson’s treatment of sex offenders, especially those preying on children.”

Two men were to have opened fire at each other while bullets hit several bystanders.

The proposal is seen as a way to avoid blanket restrictions that would affect Web access for average Russians.

Another big provider of Internet backbone service to Russia has announced it will no longer provide service, furthering the country’s isolation from outside information sources.

Russia moved closer to being cut off from Western Internet sites as its censor and Western businesses adopted new measures to limit what can travel across the Web.

Withholding technology can be a soft-power weapon to potentially turn a population against its leaders. Yet it also can be costly to the U.S. economy, slow to deliver results and scattershot in its impacts.

The tools of modern social media are almost certainly faster, more visual and more voluminous than in any previous major military conflict thanks to the proliferation of smartphones connected to speedy data links. They can also be confusing.

Surveillance company NSO Group offered to give representatives of an American mobile security firm “bags of cash” in exchange for access to global cellular networks, according to a whistleblower who has described the encounter in confidential disclosures to the Justice Department.

Pegasus hack reported on iPhones of Human Rights Watch official

The House panel issued subpoenas to four social media companies that so far have provided an “inadequate response” to requests for information and records relating to the spread of misinformation and efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Facebook is notifying nearly 50,000 users in more than 100 countries that they may have been targets of hacking attempts by private surveillance companies working for government agencies, the company said Thursday.

Sources said Pegasus spyware from the Israeli company NSO Group was used to attack the phones of several American diplomats.

The suit comes after the July publication of the Pegasus Project by The Washington Post and 16 other news organizations that detailed the use of Pegasus in dozens of attacks against journalists, human rights workers and political activists in countries across the world.

The move is a significant sanction against a company spotlighted in July by the global Pegasus Project consortium, including The Washington Post and 16 other news organizations worldwide.

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen testified before the British Parliament.

Facebook has never publicly disclosed what it knows about how its platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, helped fuel that day’s mayhem.