Kim Zetter
Journalist - cybersecurity/national security. Author of COUNTDOWN TO ZERO DAY: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon. Speaker. Signal user
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Naples man hacks Gov. DeSantis' address in voter database - NBC2 News
NBC2 News 87d 1 tweets
Governor DeSantis went to vote at his assigned polling location on Monday around 3 p.m. when he was told his primary address in the Florida database had been changed by an unknown person.
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Kim Zetter Hacker used Florida governor's name/birthdate to change his address in voter reg database. Gov discovered it when he tried to vote. "Authorities discovered the request was made using a computer with the IP address of 73.156.214.229" (h/t ) 87d
The Unsinkable Maddie Stone, Google's Bug-Hunting Badass
Wired 90d 4 tweets
The Project Zero reverse engineer shuts down some of the world's most dangerous exploits—along with antiquated hacker stereotypes.
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Kim Zetter Great profile of and her work at Google combating zero days. "Stone's most important job isn't just to check the mouse traps. It’s to figure out how Project Zero and the security industry as a whole can build a better one." by 90d
Around 200 'murder hornets' will be 'extracted alive and killed'
Mail Online 91d 3 tweets
The Washington State Department of Agriculture wiped out the nest Saturday to protect native honeybees, marking the first successful attempt to locate and remove a nest on US soil.
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Kim Zetter The photos from this operation to eradicate murder hornets in Washington state are something. 91d
Access To and Use Of Voter Registration Lists
Ncsl.org 94d 1 tweets
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Kim Zetter Here's a site that lists what info each state includes in their voter reg file (it's not a thorough list, however) as well as who can obtain voter data from each state and what are the requirements/limitations to get it and how you can use it. 94d
Video: This U.S. Election Could Be the Most Secure Yet. Here’s Why.
Nytimes.com 96d 2 tweets
With early voting underway, states are working to reassure voters that their ballots will be counted as cast. Our video shows how states’ responses to Russian hacking and the coronavirus crisis have helped make the election more secure than ever.
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Kim Zetter This video is spreading misinfo. The Russians didn't "infiltrate our voting systems in every single state." They scanned election web sites in 50 states (web sites aren't voting systems, scanning isn't infiltrating) and breached those systems in 2 states. 96d
State Fact Sheets
Law.georgetown.edu 120d 12 tweets
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Kim Zetter Georgetown law school has created a fact sheet for all 50 states explaining the laws barring unauthorized private militia groups and what to do if groups of armed individuals show up near a polling place or voter registration drive. 111d
Chadwick Boseman Boosted Sienna Miller’s 21 Bridges Salary From His Own Pay
Empire 117d 1 tweets
Sienna Miller spoke to Empire about her experiences of working with Chadwick Boseman on 21 Bridges.
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Kim Zetter Chadwick Boseman cut his own producing salary on film so Sienna Miller could be paid what she was worth, after studio refused to meet her salary request. "it was, ‘Of course I'll get you to that number, because that's what you should be paid.’” 117d
Federal Agencies Tapped Protesters' Phones in Portland
The Nation 124d 9 tweets
Homeland Security has not yet come clean to the public about the full extent of its intelligence operations in Portland.
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Kim Zetter Details about phone tapping are unclear but suggest: 1) stingray device 2) SIM swap 3) malware injection. Any other options? Story describes "extracting information” and "cell phone cloning...to intercept protesters’ phone communications" 124d
New cyberattacks targeting U.S. elections  - Microsoft on the Issues
Microsoft On the Issues - Microsoft on the Issues 135d 1 tweets
In recent weeks, Microsoft has detected cyberattacks targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming presidential election. This highlights the need for those involved in the political process to take advantage of free and low-cost...
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Kim Zetter Nice detail from Microsoft's report today on Russian hackers targeting US campaigns and others: 135d
The election security hole everyone ignores
POLITICO 145d 1 tweets
Increasing numbers of polling places use electronic devices to check in voters and verify their eligibility. But the devices often create chaos and introduce new vulnerabilities to elections.
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Kim Zetter The Election Security Hole Everyone Ignores. I took a bit of a deep dive into electronic pollbooks, which create more problems in elections than voting machines. For 1st time in two decades we also now have data about e-pollbooks used around country 145d
Keep America Great
Tom Steyer - Keep America Great 418d 21 tweets
Learn the truth about President Donald Trump and his accomplishments.
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Kim Zetter Trump failed to retain the domain, so Biden's campaign snagged it and is using it to host a list of Trump's broken promises. 148d
Biden snags 'Keep America Great' domain in latest act of Trump trolling
POLITICO 149d 7 tweets
The Democrat's campaign recently learned the web domain was available and snagged it.
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Kim Zetter Trump failed to retain the domain, so Biden's campaign snagged it and is using it to host a list of Trump's broken promises. 148d
Former Uber Executive Charged With Paying 'Hush Money' To Conceal Massive Breach
NPR.org 156d 5 tweets
Federal prosecutors allege Uber's former chief security officer Joe Sullivan covered up the breach, and instead arranged a $100,000 payment to the hackers.
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Kim Zetter Joe Sullivan, respected member of the security community and also a former DoJ prosecutor himself, is charged with paying hackers to cover up Uber breach. Before becoming Uber's CISO, he was top security officer at Facebook. 156d
The Postal Service Is Steadily Getting Worse — Can It Handle a National Mail-In Election?
ProPublica 223d 6 tweets
Postal delays and mistakes have marred primary voting, and after years of budget cuts and plant closures, mail delivery has slowed so much that ballot deadlines in many states are no longer realistic.
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Kim Zetter This is the best and most comprehensive piece I've seen on the vote-by-mail and problems. Many stories focus only on the latest political issue while missing all of the complex backstory and why this has been a growing problem for years. 158d
WSJ News Exclusive | U.S. Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps to Track Phones
Byron Tau - WSJ 170d 16 tweets
A small U.S. company with ties to the U.S. defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide.
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Kim Zetter Anomaly Six, a small US company w/ ties to defense and intelligence communities has embedded its software in numerous mobile apps, allowing it to track the movements of hundreds of millions of mobile phones world-wide. 169d
What Are Stingrays and Dirtboxes?
The Intercept 176d 5 tweets
A guide to stingray surveillance technology, which may have been deployed at recent protests.
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Kim Zetter Also describes it as "Low Level Voice Intercept” operation. Here's a piece I wrote recently laying out capabilities of stingrays -- both law enforcement stingrays and military-grade stingrays, which have more capabilities. 124d
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Kim Zetter Wrote a primer about stingrays/Dirtboxes - devices law enforcement/military use to track mobile phones and in some cases spy on communication. Includes how they work w/ 4G & 5G, which were supposed to add security to defend against them but didn't entirely 176d
A harsh lesson in the reality of COVID-19 - Dallas Voice
Dallas Voice 180d 12 tweets
For Tony Green, the coronavirus pandemic was just a ‘scamdemic’ — until truth hit home hard Imagine the sound and vibration of an old-fashioned electric heater going through your whole body. Imagine gasping for air with every step you take. Imagine...
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Kim Zetter "I believed the virus to be a hoax. I believed the...media and the Democrats were using it to create panic, crash the economy and destroy Trump’s chances at re-election...so...my partner and I hosted family members on..June 13. On..June 14, I woke up sick" 180d
Garmin global outage caused by ransomware attack, sources say – TechCrunch
Zack Whittaker - TechCrunch 181d 2 tweets
The WastedLocker ransomware, used by a notorious Russian hacking group, is said to be to blame.
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Kim Zetter Interesting dilemma for Garmin and other victims of ransomware attacks done by Russian hacking group Evil Corp. Because Treasury Dept sanctioned Evil Corp, notes, US victims paying a ransom to them would technically be violating sanctions 181d
Exclusive: More than 1,000 people at Twitter had ability to aid hack of accounts
U.S. 184d 11 tweets
More than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors as of earlier this year had access to internal tools that could change user account settings and hand control to others, two former employees said, making it hard to defend against the hacking...
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Kim Zetter Former Twitter employees say 1,000+ company workers - plus some contract workers - had access to internal tools that could have let them alter user account settings and hand control to others in manner similar to what the Twitter hackers did. 181d
Seven ships ablaze in Iran's Bushehr Port
The National 192d 1 tweets
Incident follows a string of unexplained explosions, including blasts at a military site near Tehran and a nuclear enrichment facility
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Kim Zetter Seven ships are on fire at port in Bushehr, Iran. This follows multiple other fires/explosions that have occurred in Iran in recent weeks, including at petro-chemical plants and the nuclear plant at Natanz. 192d