BREAKING: Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE 🔗 www.404media.co/apple-banned...

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed www.404media.co/apple-banned...

New from 404 Media: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells me "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 🔗 www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

🚨🚨🚨 Google released a report on "Brickstorm" this morning — a next-level, suspected China-linked campaign targeting U.S. firms. Ultra-stealthy, 400+ day dwell times, focus on stealing IP, finding zero-days, and focused on long-term cyberespionage. cyberscoop.com/chinese-cybe...

Holy shit

if you’re canceling your Disney and worried about what your kids will watch…might i suggest supporting your local PBS station, which gets you streaming access to all their content via PBS passport

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

Excited to speak at FTSCon next month!

#FTSCon Speaker Spotlight: Joseph Edwards (@eflags.bsky.social) is presenting “The Forensics of Zoom's Remote Control” in the HUNTER track. See the full list of speakers + event info, including how to register, here: volatilityfoundation.org/from-the-sou...

For those unfamiliar, Ellen Nakashima is also one of the best natsec/intelligence/cyber reporters in the world, and has been for decades, in no small part because of course she cultivates high level sources instead of relying on official agency press offices.

I'm a huge fan of @iceblock.app and their commitment to privacy. The differences in how iOS and Android handle push notifications doesn't usually matter. For this threat model, it ABSOLUTELY DOES and ICEBlock is taking the right stance here. www.iceblock.app/android

New evidence suggests Russian forces shot down Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 www.euronews.com/2025/07/01/n...

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

ICEblock, which allows users to alert others to the geographical location of ICE officers, is the top social networking app in the App Store right now after Karoline Leavitt condemned it from the podium yesterday.

Check out our weekly @americansunlight.org Last Week in Censorship roundup. Last week: unprecedented lawsuit against the MD federal judiciary, the tourist denied entry over political meme, and the resignation of UVA president Jim Ryan. (Also: merch!) americansunlight.substack.com/p/last-week-...

I’ve spent a majority of my career focusing on ransomware thanks to everything I learned while working under Kurtis Minder. He taught me so much from numerous ransomware negotiations. I highly recommend adding his new book to your summer reading list. a.co/d/gZynHMp

ICE rolls facial recognition tools out to officers’ phones, Scattered Spider targets airlines, and hackers open a valve at a Norwegian dam, in this week’s security news roundup. @evystadium.bsky.social has more:

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NEW: Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. Unpaywalled from @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social:

There's a new ClickFix variation called FileFix This one works by tricking users into copying a file path in Windows Explorer. Attackers modify the clipboard, so you're actually pasting and running PowerShell ahead of the file path mrd0x.com/filefix-clic...

And she's writing from Kyiv as they go through nightly Russian attacks. Really amazing that @darynant.bsky.social does what she does.

Some people get into journalism because they’re skeptical of power, and others do so because they’re impressed by it. Moments like this are clarifying with respect to who’s who.

The White House has rejected the Pentagon's pick for the next head of the NSA and Cyber Command The DOD proposed Army Lt. Gen. Richard Angle to replace Gen. Timothy Haugh, who was dismissed by President Trump in April www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Meant to mention this last week, but if you have a young person in your life who’s into history or graphic novels or just good books, buy them George Takei’s “They Called Us Enemy.” My oldest couldn’t put it down.

Literally begging you to post about Just Some Stuff. We will see the news I absolutely promise. Twenty people will repost the same exact thing about the news. Only you can post about a turtle you saw

This is a very serious downstream impact of sanctions and MSFT having this much control

Right to Repair progress in the EU today! Ecodesign for Smartphones just went into effect, and there is lots of real repair progress: - Seven years of parts availability. - Five years of software support. - Repairability scores at point of sale.

excited bc today @huntress.com is releasing our analysis of a gnarly intrusion into a web3 company by the DPRK's BlueNoroff!! 🤠 we've observed 8 new pieces of macOS malware from implants to infostealers! and they're actually good (for once)! www.huntress.com/blog/inside-...

When I needed a hysterectomy due to severe endometriosis & adenomyosis, I was repeatedly denied Told I “might want kids.” Told I “might meet a man who wants kids” I was left disabled & bed ridden, yet the system continued to try & save my diseased uterus against my will 🧵

i watched this moment live back in 2014 and i lost my shit like this was INSANE. this was probably when i began to understand why sports people are the way they are

Keir Giles has been targeted *again* by allegedly Russian hackers — this time using a clever new trick intended to bypass 2-factor authentication. Over the years I’ve written about Giles an unusual amount, and I have an idea about why. First, the coverage: www.reuters.com/technology/s...

🚨NEW REPORT: exposing clever new hacking tactic. 🇷🇺Russian state-backed hackers used an App-Specific Password attack against prominent Russia expert @keirgiles.bsky.social It's like they knew what we all expect from 🇷🇺...and then did the opposite 1/ By us @citizenlab.ca & Google's GTIG

There are skeptics out there who believe [LITERAL ACCOUNT OF WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY DOES] and don't believe [SCIENCE-FICTIONAL HYPE STORY OF WHAT TECHNOLOGY MARKETERS WANT TO CONVINCE INVESTORS AND CUSTOMERS THE TECHNOLOGY WILL MAGICALLY SOMEDAY ACHIEVE]

For those unconditionally cheering the attacks on Iran, remember that our early strikes in Afghanistan and Iraq were “successful”. But we ended up getting dragged into costly wars that created more terrorists than we killed. The American people haven’t forgotten that.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

I ended up in the Gowanus Whole Foods today and noticed all these signs and it took me a full beat to remember oh yeah, I wrote a whole article on why this week.

A cyberattack on a primary organic food distributor has led to empty shelves at Whole Foods stores across the country.

Today in Boston. Over a million people turned out. Even the drone couldn't get it all. #NoKingsDay #BostonStrong #ICEProtest

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

Fucking hell: “Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police officer.”

yep! unpaywalled:

Brazil is really leading the way on the crackdown on social media platforms!! Brazil rules social media platforms liable for users' posts The Supreme Court decision could pave the way for the companies to face potential fines for not removing posts in Brazil. www.dw.com/en/brazil-ru...

-Predator spyware alive despite US sanctions -Paragon spyware used a zero-click iOS zero-day -28 OAGs sue 23andMe -South Korea’s largest online bookstore gets ransomwared -Another CISA leadership departure Podcast: risky.biz/RBNEWS437/ Newsletter: news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...

These are the people that make America great 🇲🇽🇺🇸

In case you're wondering, authoritarians use this strategy of escalation to manufacture crisis, provoke outrage, then use the reaction to justify repression. It’s not about restoring order, it's about creating a spectacle of chaos they can claim only they can control.

We launched CoverDrop 🎉 providing sources with a secure and anonymous way to talk to journalists. Having started five years ago as a PhD research project, this now ships within the Guardian app to millions of users—all of which provide cover traffic. Paper, code, and more info: www.coverdrop.org