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ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team

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United States immigration authorities are moving to dramatically expand their social media surveillance, with plans to hire nearly 30 contractors to sift through posts, photos, and messages—raw material to be transformed into intelligence for deportation raids and arrests. Federal contracting records reviewed by WIRED show that the agency …

Defending against supply chain attacks like Chalk/Debug and the Shai-Hulud worm

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Building on top of open source packages can help accelerate development. By using common libraries and modules from npm, PyPI, Maven Central, NuGet, and others, teams can focus on writing code that is unique to their situation. These open source package registries host millions of packages that are integrated …

That annoying SMS phish you just got may have come from a box like this

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Scammers have been abusing unsecured cellular routers used in industrial settings to blast SMS-based phishing messages in campaigns that have been ongoing since 2023, researchers said. The routers, manufactured by China-based Milesight IoT Co., Ltd., are rugged Internet of Things devices that use cellular networks to connect traffic lights …

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