#AxisOfEasy Weekly Tech Digest

In this episode:

Online Rights Group Sends Open Letter to Condemning UK’s Online Safety Bill

Musk’s Tweet Limits Attempt to Fight AI Censorship Tools

Federal Privacy Bill Sparks Controversy over Illinois’ BIPA Law

Researchers Demonstrate ChatGPT’s Ability to Generate Windows 10 and Windows 11 Keys

Congress Considers Amendment to Stop Government from Buying Private Dat

In this episode:

Revolutionizing National Security: Army’s Social Media Surveillance Tech

The Fediverse’s Anti-Meta Stance: Openness or Insularity?

Google Warns Employees Against Entering Confidential Data into AI Chatbots as it Rolls Out New Bard Chatbot Across the World

Unveiling the FBI’s Use of Stingray Technology: Implications for Privacy and Civil Liberties

Group-IB Cybersecurity Researchers Discover 100,000 Hacked ChatGPT Accounts from India, Pakistan, and Brazil

In this episode:

French Bill Allows Remote Mic Activation by Law Enforcement: What You Need to Know

Conservative Version of ChatGPT Forced to Shut Down After OpenAI Said It “Failed to Conform to Requirements”

Unveiling a New Russian APT Group: Microsoft Links Them to Wiper Attacks in Ukraine

Critical Flaw in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN Patched: Users Urged to Upgrade Systems

US Intelligence Agencies Flouting the Law to Buy Information About American Citizens

In this episode:

Google Zero day targeting Chrome based crypto wallets

Barracuda Networks Advises Customers to Replace Compromised Email Security Gateway Devices

DHS Commissioned a Research Project to Give ‘Risk Scores’ to Social Media Users According to Latest Motherboard Report

Instagram’s Involvement in a Disturbing Pedophile Network Revealed

TikTok Now Banned from all US Federal Government Contractors’ Work Devices

Announcing easyNostr-NIP05 WordPress Plugin

Redditor moderator backlash ignites over API policies

Apple loves innovation, except when it challenges their quasi-monopoly

What really went on inside the Wuhan lab weeks before Covid erupted

In this episode:

A spokesperson for Telegram, Remi Vaughn, says the app will not respond to political censorship requests

“I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law:” Elon Musk on Twitter censorship requests

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hints at taking action against Twitter CEO after he encouraged engagement with popular AOC impersonator account

Discord admins hacked by malicious Javascript bookmarklets throughout the month of May

Journalists behind Twitter Files watershed moment join hands to fight the censorship industrial complex

In this episode:

Iranian Agrius Hackers Target Critical Infrastructure: A New Cybersecurity Threat

Israeli NSO group’s elite spyware detected in active war zone for the first time

North Korean Entities Training Expat IT Workers in Russia Face US Sanctions

LinkedIn censorship controversy: Vivek Ramaswamy’s account locked and restored

IRS’ Criminal Investigation Unit to launch international cyber attaché program to fight cybercrime

In this episode:

RFKJr: “Ich Bin Ein Bitcoiner”

Triggernometry Podcast Debanked in UK

FBI Misuses Intelligence Database 278,000 times

Linkedin bans journalist after tussle with NYT CEO

Users can get encrypted direct messages option on Twitter now

New phishing-as-a-service tool has been detected

Taylor Lorenz, Twitter’s infamous “banning queen”

New Russian cybercrime group, Cuba Ransomware, detected by researchers

In this episode:

YouTube Attempts to nudge users towards premium services by blocking viewership to those using Ad blockers

Meta’s security team warns that hackers are using ChatGPT’s popularity to spread malware on its platform

Facebook investor suit over user data privacy incidents refused by Delaware judge

British citizen Joseph James O’Connor confesses to cybercrime accusations, extradited to US for trial

Hackers leak details of over 200M Twitter accounts, says cybersecurity firm

In this episode:

NexusGuard Researchers Discover New InfoStealer Malware Being Circulated via Facebook Ads

Meta Receives Third FTC Warning Over Allegedly Failing to Protect Underage Users’ Privacy

Twitter CEO Elon Musk Opposes New Attempts at Irish Hate Speech Legislation

Huge Online Cyber Spy Operations Throughout South Asia Discovered by Meta

LNK Switch-Up Allows North Korean APT to Avoid Macro-Blocking

In this episode:

RedLine stealer MaaS latest example of hackers exploiting generative AI technologies as AI platforms gain popularity

Multiple salesforce websites have disclosed personal information

Paul Thacker defends Tucker Carlson, says WHO stealth-edited vaccine information to censor Tucker

In latest ransomware attack, hackers leak massive cache of Minneapolis public school student information, demand $1M

‘Evasive Panda’ from China snoops on software updates