Security: Lily Collins Facebook hack garnering media coverage
The hack swipes 2FA authentication tokens from the user’s computer and then uses those to login to their FB account, change their password, change the account name to Lily Collins,…
Health care: Cigna insurance denies claims without even looking at the patient’s medical record
https://twitter.com/propublica/status/1639586525825441792
Public health: “How Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard Masked America” #MasksForAll
Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role in shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than…
Climate oops: Largest seller of carbon offsets accused of being a scam
The world's largest seller of carbon offsets is accused of being a scam, possibly selling 30x more offsets than were actually realized.
How the Lily Collins Facebook Hack May have worked
Details are here. I believe there were multiple attack vectors. The one described at the link is an analysis of a Google Chrome extension that grabbed the authentication cookie for…
Facebook “Lily Collins” hack
The Lily Collins hack is gradually encompassing more and more Facebook accounts. The attack has been underway since January and is still underway in late March. Facebook has no comment…
Published in Nature: “Political endorsements can affect scientific credibility”
In 2020, Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the US presidential election. A survey finds that viewing the endorsement did not change people’s views of the candidates, but caused some to…
Business Oops: How could anyone have seen SVB’s collapse coming?
Raging Ventures saw it coming and posted the details on Twitter on January 18, 2023, two months in advance of the collapse. Why were Federal banking regulators hibernating all winter?
Follow up: “Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right – The New York Times”
The NY Times relied upon a software engineer who retrained in sociology to study the intersection of technology and society to write columns on epidemiology topics. The NY Times gave…
Stanford University and others sought massive censorship of Internet content
The Virality Project is part of the Stanford Internet Observatory which trolled the Internet looking for “misinformation” and “disinformation” – but become a source of disinformation seeking to ban true…