Topic: WEB - on June 29, 2016 at 11:10:00 AM CEST
Bots for #Brexit
What I want to write about here, though, is the way in which that Leave campaigners (in the broadest sense) leveraged the use of Twitter bots in the campaign. A report now available on Arxiv suggests that bots generated over three times as many pro-Brexit tweets (97,431) than pro-Remain messages (28,075) in a one-week period in June.
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Topic: WEB - on June 28, 2016 at 3:13:00 PM CEST
Rechtsextreme und menschenverachtende Phänomene im Social Web
Rechtspopulistische und rechtsextreme Rhetorik im Internet haben 2015 rasant an Fahrt aufgenommen. Doch wer sind die treibenden Kräfte? Welche Akteurinnen und Akteure sind relevant, welche Phänomene und Narrative sind am verbreitetsten? Der vorliegende Bericht gibt einen Überblick und sortiert die Strömungen, Instrumente und Narrative in die Ereignisse der letzten anderthalb Jahre ein.
Inhalt der Broschüre
Vorwort
Phänomene
Instrumente:
Bürgerliche Mimikry
Gewaltaufrufe
Falschmeldungen und Gerüchte
Narrative und Motive:
Volk, Staat und Widerstand
Opferrolle: Pack und Nazi
"Lügenpresse" und "Gegenöffentlichkeit"
Flüchtlinge als "Invasoren"
Flüchtlinge als "Kriminelle", "Kulturlose" und "übergriffige Fremde"
Flüchtlinge als "Schmarotzer"
Strömungen und Akteure
Pegida
AfD
NPD
Ein Prozent für unser Land
Identitäre Bewegung Deutschland
Der III. Weg
German Defence League
Friedensquerfront:
Anonymous.Kollektiv
Compact
KenFM
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Topic: WEB - on June 28, 2016 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
How hackers hijacked petition demanding second EU referendum and named 42,000 signatories from the Vatican City which only has a population of 840
The full extent of how hackers managed to hijack the petition demanding a second EU referendum can be revealed by MailOnline. Hackers boasted about their exploits in online forums and openly mocked how easy it was to infiltrate the UK Parliament petition website. The petition has attracted more than 3.7million signatures and has led high profile figures to use the petition as proof of the public appetite for a re-run of last week's referendum, which was won by the Brexit campaign by more than 1.2million votes.
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Topic: WEB - on June 28, 2016 at 2:31:00 PM CEST
Large CCTV Botnet Leveraged in DDoS Attacks
Our security operations team investigate and mitigate multiple denial of service (DDoS) attacks every single day. One recent case caught our attention because of the intensity and duration of the attack, and – as we discovered through some research – how it was being done. In this article, we’ll share the specifics in an effort to track down the vulnerable devices and to help get them patched. DDoS Against a Small Business It all started with a small brick and mortar jewelry shop that signed up with us to help protect their site from a DDoS that had taken them down for days. By switching their DNS to the Sucuri Network, we were able to quickly mitigate the attack for them. It was a layer 7 attack (HTTP Flood) generating close to 35,000 HTTP requests per second (RPS) which was more than their web servers could handle.
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Topic: WEB - on June 27, 2016 at 4:16:00 PM CEST
Brexit ‘2nd Referendum Petition’ A 4 Chan Prank
The 4 Chan Bots represent the ultimate failure of the Remainstream Media.
The BBC’s desperate shilling for Remain will come under increasing scrutiny as we exclusively reveal that the supposed ‘popular petition’ for a second referendum – wholly illegal and unworkable, and unprecedented in British history – is a prank by notorious sh*tposters 4 Chan.
The BBC, the UK’s national broadcaster, gleefully reported, as real, with no basic journalistic checks, an online petition that appeared to be growing at a colossal rate. By 1:30 pm, it was one of the fastest-growing petitions in history.
Achtung Canvas-Fingerprinting heatst.com boards.4chan.org twitter.com/HoCpetitions Second referendum petition: Inquiry removes at least 77,000 fake signatures, as hackers claim responsibility for 'prank'
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Topic: WEB - on June 27, 2016 at 8:54:00 AM CEST
Richard Stallman - Reasons not to use Facebook
Why you should not "use" (i.e., be used by) Facebook. I have never had a Facebook account. There is a Facebook account called "Richard Stallman", but it is an impostor. Putting the photo of someone on Facebook (or Instagram) contributes to surveillance of that person. Please don't post any photos there that include me, and I suggest you avoid posting photos of anyone else too.
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Topic: WEB - on June 22, 2016 at 9:22:00 PM CEST
Crims set up fake companies to hoard and sell IPv4 addresses
IPv4 addresses are now so valuable that criminals are setting up shell companies so they can apply for addresses, then resell them to users desperate to grow their networks. Criminals are doing so because there are no more IPv4 addresses left: the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) ran out in September 2015. ARIN maintains a waiting list for address buyers and also oversees a market for used IPv4 addresses. While it is conceivable that some users will hand back addresses they no longer require, the IPv4 transfer market is short of stock.
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Topic: WEB - on June 22, 2016 at 6:16:00 PM CEST
Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda. The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world.
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Topic: WEB - on June 14, 2016 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
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Topic: WEB - on June 13, 2016 at 5:54:00 PM CEST
US-Regierung mischt sich in Schrems-Prozess zu Facebook und NSA ein
Will vor dem irischen High Court aussagen, die Befragung wäre unter Eid – Schrems: "Einmalige Chance" Die US-Regierung will sich offenbar vor einem europäischen Gericht zur Massenüberwachung durch ihre Geheimdienste äußern. Dabei geht es um jenen Prozess gegen Facebook, den der österreichische Jurist Max Schrems initiiert hatte. Die US-Regierung beantragte, vor dem irischen High Court als sogenannter "amicus curiae" aufzutreten.
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Topic: WEB - on June 9, 2016 at 10:07:00 AM CEST
One of the World's Largest Botnets Has Vanished
With no warning, one of the world's largest criminal botnets—a massive collection of computers used to launch attacks—has disappeared. Researchers have reported huge drops in traffic for two of the most popular pieces of malware which rely on it. “We can only tell that the Dridex and Locky spam campaigns stopped since June 1 in our observation. We cannot confirm how the botnet was brought down yet,” Joonho Sa, a researcher for cybersecurity company FireEye, told Motherboard in an email.
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Topic: WEB - on June 9, 2016 at 9:57:00 AM CEST
Belgium tops list of nations most vulnerable to hacking
Tajikistan comes second, Samoa third and Australia fourth as new ‘heat map of the internet’ reveals which countries are most at risk due to exposed servers.
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